06 March 2020 R-and-D Experts Test Ideas in Frigid Arctic Eagle 2020 Exercise FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska -- About 70 research and development experts participated in the Alaska National Guard's Arctic Eagle 2020 exercise in Fairbanks to explore innovative ways the military and emergency responders can do their jobs in arctic conditions.With over 600,000 square miles of diverse...
05 March 2020 New Hampshire's 12th Civil Support Team Trains in Frigid Alaskan Weather BETHEL, Alaska -- U.S. Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Sara McPherson, the decontamination NCO and acting noncommissioned officer in charge with the 12th Civil Support Team (CST), New Hampshire National Guard, set up a sick call for native Alaskans to seek medical treatment in Bethel Feb. 29 during...
22 June 2020 National Guard Airlifts 'Into the Wild' Bus Out of Alaska Wilderness JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- A 1940s-era bus featured in the book and movie, "Into the Wild," was extracted from the Stampede Trail west of the Teklanika River by the Alaska National Guard June 18.In a coordinated effort with the Department of Natural Resources, 12 Alaska Army National...
09 July 2020 Alaska National Guard Rescues Three Individuals during Two Overlapping Missions JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Alaska Air National Guard rescued three people on two separate occasions July 7. The first rescue mission involved an aircraft crash 16 miles east of Farewell Lake, and the second was a medevac mission for a woman experiencing life-threatening medical...
24 July 2020 Army National Guardsmen Airlift Memorial from Nome to Kiwalik: Soldiers Honor KIWALIK, Alaska -- Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment and several other units, transported the headstone and cross of retired Command Sgt. Maj. and Vietnam War veteran Thomas Sherman from Nome to Kiwalik via a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, July...
22 July 2020 Alaska Air National Guard Rescues Four Distressed Hikers at Crow Pass JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The Alaska Air National Guard rescued four distressed hikers from Crow Pass Trail, which runs between Girdwood and the Eagle River Nature Center, July 20.The hikers had reached approximately the halfway point and were substantially low on food. They didn’t...
13 March 2020 Alaska National Guard’s Exercise Arctic Eagle 2020 Wraps Up JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Exercise Arctic Eagle 2020, a two-week biennial exercise organized by the Alaska National Guard, came to an end Mar. 7. The exercise included about 1,250 participants from multiple local and federal civilian agencies as well as foreign and domestic military...
12 March 2020 Army Guardsman’s First Alaska Exercise brings Him to the Top of the World in Support of Arctic Eagle 2020 JOINT BASE ELEMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Staring out the window of an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter onto a endless sheet of ice, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Maddox finds himself in unfamiliar territory, over the frozen Beaufort Sea, 3,000 miles north of his hometown of Baker City,...
01 April 2020 Alaska Army Guard Helps Rescue Iditarod Mushers after Hitting Seawater Overflow NOME, 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 flood waters along the Iditarod Trail this morning, about 25 miles outside of Nome.The Alaska Rescue Coordination...