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Four members of the Alaska Army National Guard’s Golf Company, Detachment 1, 2-211th General Aviation Support Battalion, received the 2021 Rescue of the Year award for rescuing a sheep hunter stranded for two days at 5,750 feet on a 3-by-3-foot ledge on a 50-degree slope near Cottonwood Creek in the Knik River Valley Sept. 15, 2021.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Four members of the Alaska Army National Guard’s Golf Company, Detachment 1, 2-211th General Aviation Support Battalion, received the 2021 Rescue of the Year award for rescuing a sheep hunter stranded for two days at 5,750 feet on a 3-by-3-foot ledge on a 50-degree slope near Cottonwood Creek in the Knik River Valley Sept. 15, 2021.


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