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Pararescue, airlift Alaska Air National Guardsmen parachute jump into Kodiak
April 10, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen pararescuemen assigned to the 212th Rescue Squadron executed a low-level airborne jump and water rescue training at Chiniak Bay near Kodiak, Alaska, April 10, 2025...

Alaska Army Guardsmen rescue injured skier near Mt. Spurr volcano
April 2, 2025 — Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers with G Co., 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion rescued an injured skier, March 27, in the Tordrillo Mountains at the base of Mount Torbert located 10 miles north of Mount Spurr...

Alaska Army National Guard rescues 3 plane crash victims on glacial lake near Soldotna
March 26, 2025 — Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers with G Co., 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion rescued three people March 24 from the wreckage of a crashed PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft that was partially submerged in glacial ice on a lake located approximately 40 miles southeast of Soldotna near Tustumena Lake. ...

New state Tuition Reimbursement Program (TRP) expands education opportunities for servicemembers
March 24, 2025 — The Alaska National Guard education services recently rolled out its newest education benefit, the Alaska State Tuition Assistance Reimbursement Program. This benefit is available to Alaska Air and Army Guardsmen and members of the Alaska Naval Militia and offers expanded benefits for students interested in attending academic institutions in Alaska...

LOD Cart supercharges tactical air mobility operations in the Pacific
March 19, 2025 — LOD Cart supercharges tactical air mobility operations in the Pacific...

Alaska Air National Guardsmen conduct hoist rescue at Hatcher Pass
March 13, 2025 — Alaska Air National Guardsmen conduct hoist rescue at Hatcher Pass...

AKARNG Black Hawk crew executes novel train touchdown, supports advanced MEDEVAC capabilities in SOFAM 25’
February 27, 2025 — During the culminating training event of exercise Special Operation Forces Arctic Medic 2025, Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support Aviation Battalion landed a HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter on the platform of an Alaska rail car that was staged on a bridge above the Chena River, in the vicinity of Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb 20, 2025...

Alaska Army National Guard flight surgeon creates innovative casualty care system for the arctic warfighter
February 27, 2025 — Historically, battles are won by the side that carries momentum throughout the fight. Taking casualties can stop that momentum in its tracks. In Alaska, those tracks are complicated by extreme cold, ice and snow, making casualty care in arctic environments a challenge in the heat of combat. Alaska Army National Guard Maj. Titus Rund, a flight surgeon assigned to the 207th Aviation Troop Command, spent the last several years addressing some of those challenges facing the arctic warfighter. ...

‘Cathedrals of the mind’
February 19, 2025 — “I wasn’t going to leave that fight unless it was in a body bag.” Alaska Army National Guard Lt. Col. Luke Bushatz, 297th Regional Support Group operations officer and former 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment commander, made the stone-faced declaration while recollecting the aftermath of surviving a roadside bomb that eviscerated his Stryker in Afghanistan’s Arghandab Valley in 2009. He was serving as an infantry rifle company executive officer determined to continue in the billet despite sustaining debilitating brain trauma during the attack...

Rescue of 2 plane crash victims in Yukon Territory kicks off 176th Wing’s busy rescue week
February 7, 2025 — The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued eight individuals during four rescue missions in Alaska and Yukon Territory between Jan. 26 and Jan. 31...