Alaska Army Guard Helps Rescue Iditarod Mushers after Hitting Seawater Overflow

By Lt Col Candis Olmstead | MVA on Mar 22, 2020   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, State  

  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Aircrew with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment transported three Iditarod mushers after they and their sled dog teams went through floodwaters along the Iditarod Trail Friday morning, about 25 miles outside of Nome. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a distress signal from a […]