JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard has been operating a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter out of Bethel since late January 2023 and will continue doing so for the foreseeable future to continue federal training requirements across Western Alaska. While the aircraft and crew are stationed in Bethel for the purpose of […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The 11th Airborne Division’s annual regional combat training center exercise, Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02, is set to begin March 27 and continue through April 5, with military vehicles and personnel moving between Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the Eielson Air Force Base area before and after […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD) is providing a $300,000 grant to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Mining and Training Petroleum Service (MAPTS) to train local residents for jobs at the Kinross-operated Manh Choh project located on Tetlin tribal land near Tok. “Our department created a pilot project following Gov. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Approximately 20 Guardsmen from the Alaska National Guard’s Joint Staff are scheduled to conduct training in Kotzebue, Feb. 21-24, 2023. The event will demonstrate the unit’s ability to deploy and operate in an austere and remote cold-weather environment. Performing missions in the Arctic challenges Guardsmen to employ field-craft skills, like […]