DECEMBER 3, 2024 — Alaska National Guardsmen delivered nearly 14,000 pounds of frozen beef, chicken and pork this month to Toksook Bay, Alaska, helping residents still recovering from losses sustained when Typhoon Merbok flooded thousands of communities in September 2022. The storm's impact and ensuing power outages caused vital meat stores to spoil. After Typhoon Merbok, … [Read more...]

NOVEMBER 26, 2024 - Continuing the Operation Santa Claus tradition of delivering holiday cheer to remote communities in Alaska, Alaska Army and Air National Guard members and volunteers from the Salvation Army's Fairbanks Corps boarded an AKARNG UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with Santa Claus on Nov 6, 2024, to deliver gifts to Circle, Alaska, a village along the Yukon … [Read more...]

NOVEMBER 26, 2024 - New York Army National Guard aviators dropped 550,160 gallons of water on the 5,200-acre Jennings Creek fire Nov. 11-20 as state and local firefighters fought the Orange County blaze. The wildfire, the largest in New York since 2008, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office, ignited Nov. 9 and expanded to 2,500 acres straddling the New York-New … [Read more...]

U.S. Air Force Capt. Dayton Brown (right), the base civil engineer, and Mr. Robert Letourneau, the base engineering technician, walk the grounds of the solar array expansion at the Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vermont, Nov. 15, 2024. The Vermont Air National Guard began the third and final phase of a photovoltaic power project, an ambitious solar energy … [Read more...]

Members of the 145th Airlift Wing conduct a Mission Termination Inspection during a Combat Readiness Inspection held at the North Carolina Air National Guard (NCANG) Base, Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Nov. 1, 2024. The Combat Readiness Inspection tests the skills and abilities of NCANG members during a large-scale combat operation scenario with a focus on … [Read more...]