16 June 2014 176 Wing Mission Support and Medical Personnel Conduct Integrated Training About 200 members of the Alaska Air National Guard's 176 Mission Support Group and 176 Medical Group participated in an expeditionary skills exercise at Camp Mad Bull here June 8 to June 9. Four of the mission support group's squadrons and the medical group performed individual training,...
17 June 2014 176th Wing Provides Air Component Command during Joint Exercise JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (June 8, 2014) - A HC-130P refuels a HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during the Joint Forcible Entry Exercise at Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely Sunday. The exercise was part of a three-day, joint forcible-entry exercise to train on airfield seizure...
30 October 2019 Angels in the Arctic: Alaska Air National Guardsmen Rescue Bear-mauling Victim JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Blood buys time and spans the vast distances of the Alaska landscape when someone is critically injured in the remote wilderness.The moment a hunter was mauled by a grizzly bear shortly after midnight June 10 near Galena, there already wasn’t much sand left...
26 August 2019 The Crucible of Character: Former POW, Fighter Pilot Shares Leadership Wisdom JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- For several months, a dank 6.5-by-7-foot cell at the Hanoi Hilton served as a crucible that tested the limits of human endurance for retired Air Force Col. Leon Ellis and three of his fellow prisoners.If it wasn’t too cold at night to sleep, if he wasn’t...
15 February 2019 Alaska Air Guardsmen Brief Air Combat Command Officials JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Alaska Air National Guardsmen briefed Air Combat Command (ACC) senior officers during a Feb. 12, 2019, tour of 176th Wing rescue units at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.ACC is the primary provider of air combat forces for the Air Force and is located at...
03 December 2018 Alaska National Guard immediate Aerial Survey Reduces Earthquake Havoc JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- In the cold and dark early-morning hours Friday, an Alaska Air National Guard C-130J "Combat King II" aircraft taxied out to the runway here, filled with presents, school supplies and other Christmas goodies for school children in the remote Bering Sea...
24 January 2023 Alaska Air National Guard Trains with Coast Guard KODIAK, Alaska (AFNS) -- Undulating waves pitched the 2,000-ton U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Cypress like a bath toy, which was nothing unusual for the vessel while operating in Pacific waters off Alaska.What was out of place was the 210th Rescue Squadron (RQS) HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue...
04 January 2022 Royal Canadian Air Force Arctic Guardian Keeps Watch with 176th Air Defense Squadron JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Besides her distinctively mottled Canadian Disruptive Pattern uniform and a habit of pronouncing lieutenant as “left-tenant,” there is nothing differentiating Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF) Capt. Elyse O’Brien, 176th Air Defense Squadron (ADS) air battle...
04 January 2022 176th Maintenance Group Virtual Reality Lab Introduces Innovative Training JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The 176th Maintenance Group (MXG) opened its innovative Virtual Reality Training Lab here Dec. 4, 2021.The 176th MXG used squadron innovation funds from ARCWERX to create the lab, which will enhance training capabilities for maintenance Airmen by giving...
13 September 2021 Arctic Guardians Work with Partners during Nome, Utqiagvik Site Surveys JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- When a bear mauled a hunter near Galena, June 10, 2019, the victim was 150 miles from a highway and more than 250 miles from the city of Nome.The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, requested assistance from the...