Nations Assemble for Historic Sequential Airborne Drop

By on    Featured, State  

Nations Assemble for Historic Sequential Airborne Drop

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Service members from the Alaska National Guard and U.S. Army Alaska worked together to perform a sequential airborne drop of two Small Unit Support Vehicles from an Alaska Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III onto Malamute drop zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Sept. 16. The sequential drop was the first […]

Alaska Army Guard Works to Maintain Arctic Ground Capability

By on    Featured, State  

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard received two rebuilt M-973 Small Unit Support Vehicles from the Red River Army Depot near Texarcana, Texas, Nov. 3. SUSVs are fully-tracked, all-terrain, amphibious vehicles designed to support platoon-sized units in arctic and mountainous conditions. The SUSV, originally named the Bandvagn 206, was developed by […]