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Alaska Guard airlifts 'Into the Wild' bus from Stampede Trail
June 19, 2020 — 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... MORE

Alaska Guard maintenance Airmen critical to Africa deployment
June 18, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – An eagle swallowing a dragonfly whole is what it looks like when an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter is loaded into the cargo hold of a C-17 Globemaster III... MORE

National Guard supports NASA launch, other space missions
June 1, 2020 — ARLINGTON, Va. – National Guard members in Alaska and Hawaii were on duty Saturday as NASA launched its first manned space mission since 2011.Guard members with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th... MORE

Alaska National Guard rescues injured hiker on Esther Island
May 18, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued an injured hiker on Esther Island about 70 miles east of Anchorage May 16. A little after midnight, three... MORE

Alaska National Guard Soldiers help safeguard Kodiak Harbor
May 15, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska Army National Guard is helping ensure that COVID-19 safeguards are followed at Kodiak Harbor.Since May 1st, 10 members of the Guard and one Alaska... MORE

Alaska Air National Guard rescues 2 people
May 12, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing rescued two people on back-to-back missions May 10. Alaska State Troopers requested assistance to rescue an injured... MORE

America’s only missile defense brigade 'deployed in place'
May 12, 2020 — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – As the stranglehold of the COVID-19 pandemic tightened its grip on America, closing schools, businesses and government institutions, the focus for the Soldiers at the 100th... MORE

Alaska National Guard responds to COVID-19 threat
April 29, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska National Guard Joint Task Force-Logistics team is supporting three missions for the State Emergency Operations Center during the COVID-19... MORE

Alaska National Guard commander eyes regional hub concept
October 8, 2019 — GALENA, Alaska — Brig. Gen. Torrence Saxe, commander of the Alaska National Guard and commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, visited the remote Yukon village of Galena... MORE

Guard members take rescue drug, prevention efforts to rural Alaska
June 9, 2017 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska National Guard members from the Counterdrug Support Program traveled May 31 to Galena, Alaska, to disseminate Narcan kits and other drug and alcohol... MORE

Vermont Guard to help hospitals facing COVID surge

Massachusetts Guard, first responders train in ‘ice bath’

Utah National Guard Soldiers to compete in the 2022 Olympics

Connecticut Air Guard fire department trains with partners

New York National Guard Soldiers, Airmen train as EMTs