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AKNG Child and Youth Program Fall Festival celebrates community, youth empowerment
September 25, 2025 — Alaska National Guard Child and Youth Program members welcomed the autumn season by holding their second annual Fall Festival Sept. 13 at JBER. Approximately 260 local residents attended this year’s event, which included 51 volunteers, among them 10 youth council members... MORE

ROTC Minuteman Scholarship Recipient: Alaska Army Guardsman embarks on path to leadership
September 25, 2025 — The leaves aren’t the only thing changing in Alaska this fall. For Cadet Gabriel Gravel, an Alaska Army Guardsman attending University of Alaska Anchorage, transformation is also happening on his journey from enlisted Soldier to officer candidate through the U.S. Army’s Green to Gold program... MORE

Multi-agency responders save plane crash survivor
September 11, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued the single occupant of a plane crash Sept. 10, approximately 115 miles northeast of Anchorage... MORE

Alaska Army National Guard rescues multiple individuals from two separate small aircraft crashes
September 9, 2025 — Alaska Army National Guard aviators with the 1-168th General Support Aviation Battalion, rescued individuals in two separate plane crashes across Alaska Sept. 5, and Sept. 8, respectively. ... MORE

Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Missile Defense Battalion forges mission success through resilience, community
September 9, 2025 — In the heart of interior Alaska, where the wind howls across the tundra and winter locks the land in forty-below darkness, Soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Missile Defense Battalion carry out one of the nation’s most vital missions in defending the United States from intercontinental ballistic missile attack... MORE

Anchorage Fire Department receives DOD’s highest award for outstanding employer support
September 5, 2025 — The Anchorage Fire Department received the 2025 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award at a ceremony at the Anchorage Fire Training Center, Sept. 4. The AFD was only the third Alaska employer to receive this award since its inception in 1996... MORE

Air National Guard Medics Train Under Pressure for Real-World Combat Casualty Care
August 29, 2025 — Airmen from the 168th Wing Medical Group engaged in an advanced, rigorous combat-casualty-care exercise at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, designed to sharpen their skills in delivering lifesaving care under hostile conditions, Aug 5, 2025. The training, conducted in coordination with the U.S. Army Aviation Black Hawk unit at Fort Wainwright, 1st Battalion, General Support Aviation Battalion, pushed medics to operate with precision and speed in the face of simulated battlefield chaos... MORE

Alaska Air National Guard conducts multiple hoist rescue of stranded rafters on Kichatna River
August 28, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued three rafters Aug. 28, after their raft flipped over on the Kichatna River. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers... MORE

Alaska Air National Guard rescues individual with facial laceration near Knik Glacier
August 26, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued an individual with a facial laceration Aug. 25, approximately 40 miles northeast of Anchorage in the vicinity of Knik Glacier. ... MORE

Leveling Up: Alaska Army Guard engineers rebuild observation posts during annual training 25'
August 19, 2025 — More than 70 Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 910th Engineer Support Company completed a project during their annual training Aug. 2-17 on JBER to rebuild two critical training sites, Observation Post Cole and Observation Post Fagan. The project provided the U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 11th Airborne Division with improved facilities to support future training and readiness... MORE