Fifty years ago, a ship long as the Empire State Building sailed toward obstacles that captains usually avoid. The icebreaking tanker SS Manhattan was an oil company’s attempt to see if it might be profitable to move Alaska oil to the East Coast by plowing through the ice-clogged Northwest Passage. Begging his way aboard […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and an HC-130 Hercules aircrew are searching for a 23-year-old male reported to have fallen overboard from the motor vessel Challenge Prelude, 126 miles south of Sand Point, Alaska, Sunday. District 17 command center watchstanders received notification at about 1:25 p.m. from […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — While in Valdez, taking part in Exercise Arctic Eagle 2018, Guardsmen from the 103rd Civil Support Team, Alaska National Guard, and Washington National Guard Homeland Response Force worked with first responders after a real-life diesel fuel tanker truck crashed near a waterway. The tanker truck had exited the roadway and […]
Twin F-22 Raptor fighters were scrambled out of Anchorage on Monday evening as two Russian TU-95 Bear bombers were detected approaching the area of Kodiak Island, the Pentagon is reporting. The Raptors flew to an area approximately 100 miles off of the Kodiak Archipelago supported by an E-3 Sentry radar aircraft and a KC-135 tanker […]