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Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment

Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment pull maintenance on a CH-47F Chinook helicopter Feb. 27, 2020, at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to ensure it is ready to fly missions in support of Arctic Edge... More

Arctic Edge action, US Marine Corps Photo

Arctic Edge action, US Marine Corps Photo

CH-47F Chinook helicopters from B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment sit in position as the sun rises Feb. 28, 2020, for Soldiers and Marines at Fort Wainwright's Hangar 1 to load up for a mission i... More

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Battery C, 2nd Battalion,

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Battery C, 2nd Battalion,

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment battle stiff winds, sub-zero temperatures and blowing snow as they prepare to hook up their 155mm howitzer to a CH-47 Chinook hel... More

The three tallest peaks in the Alaska Range -- Mount

The three tallest peaks in the Alaska Range -- Mount

The three tallest peaks in the Alaska Range -- Mount Foraker (17,400 feet), Mount Hunter (14,573 feet) and Denali (20,310 feet) – fill the skyline above Talkeetna, Alaska. Aviators from B Company, 1st Battalion... More

Pfc. Lasabra Smith and Spc. Zachary Leavitt work to

Pfc. Lasabra Smith and Spc. Zachary Leavitt work to

Pfc. Lasabra Smith and Spc. Zachary Leavitt work to set up camouflage netting over a portion of E Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation's Forward Area Refueling Point at Firebird Assault Landing Strip in the Yu... More

U.S. Army Alaska Commanding General Maj. Gen. Michael

U.S. Army Alaska Commanding General Maj. Gen. Michael

U.S. Army Alaska Commanding General Maj. Gen. Michael Garrett (center) and USARAK Command Sgt. Maj. Bernie Knight (right) share a moment of levity with Col. Morris Goins, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Tea... More

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon during U.S. Army Alaska's 2013 Staff Sgt. Jacob G. McMillan Combatives Tournament March 22 in the Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-... More

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for a flight April 26, 2013 at the airfield in Talkeetna, Alaska. U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment helped the National Park Service t... More

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Pfc. Giovanni Aleman poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Spc. Jacob Pendergrist poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Sgt. Trevor Jenkins poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Mount McKinley rises above the Alaska Range near Talkeetna,

Mount McKinley rises above the Alaska Range near Talkeetna,

Mount McKinley rises above the Alaska Range near Talkeetna, Alaska, May 20. A team of eight soldiers and one Department of the Army civilian from Fort Wainwright were transported by CH-47 Chinook helicopter to ... More

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Staff Sgt. Joshua Sedivy poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army climbers tackle Mount McKinley

Army civilian Karl Slingerland poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

A paratrooper assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne),

A paratrooper assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne),

A paratrooper assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment prepares for his parachute landing fall during an Arctic airborne operation in the complete over-white uniform on Malemute Drop Zone ... More

Victoria Fowler puts the finishing touches on a sign

Victoria Fowler puts the finishing touches on a sign

Victoria Fowler puts the finishing touches on a sign to greet her husband, Cpl. Evan Fowler. Families and friends greeted another 280 returning paratroopers May 21, 2018, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Ha... More

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows of baggage belonging to returning soldiers from the 95th Chemical Company. The soldiers reunited with their families March 11 at Buckner Physical Fitness C... More

Families pass the time at Buckner Physical Fitness

Families pass the time at Buckner Physical Fitness

Families pass the time at Buckner Physical Fitness Center Nov. 18, 2014, while waiting for soldiers from the 23rd Sapper Company and 17th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion to return from Afghanistan. For man... More

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays pre-ceremony music Jan. 6 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Buckner Physical Fitness Center. Buckner was the site for U.S. Army Alaska's official welcome ho... More

Army goalie Marshall Brothers moves to intercept a

Army goalie Marshall Brothers moves to intercept a

Army goalie Marshall Brothers moves to intercept a shot from Air Force's Michael Slater in the first period of the 2015 Army vs. Air Force hockey game. The teams were made up of Active Duty, National Guard and ... More

Lt. Col. Mats Forsman discusses Sweden's Winter Warfare

Lt. Col. Mats Forsman discusses Sweden's Winter Warfare

Lt. Col. Mats Forsman discusses Sweden's Winter Warfare School during his presentation at the U.S. Army Alaska-hosted international Cold Region Military Mountaineering Collaborative Event at the Black Rapids Tr... More

Civilian emergency responders wheel a patient into

Civilian emergency responders wheel a patient into

Civilian emergency responders wheel a patient into the Health Emergency Response Operations tent for triage and further movement via USARAK Black Hawk helicopter as part of Exercise Rock and a Hard Place. The e... More

Denali South District Ranger John Leonard presents

Denali South District Ranger John Leonard presents

Denali South District Ranger John Leonard presents a National Park Service token of appreciation to Lt. Col. Thomas Barrett, commander of the 1st Battalion, 52d Aviation Regiment April 27, 2015, for his unit's ... More

Col. Scott Green (left), commander of 4th Infantry

Col. Scott Green (left), commander of 4th Infantry

Col. Scott Green (left), commander of 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, observes the Spartan Fallen Heroes memorial with a soldier from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force out... More

Dock workers at the Port of Anchorage load military

Dock workers at the Port of Anchorage load military

Dock workers at the Port of Anchorage load military vehicles and equipment from the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, onto the ship 'Black Eagle' Aug. 19, 2015, for shipment to Japan for ... More

Senior Airman Hayden McAleavey looks for a backhand

Senior Airman Hayden McAleavey looks for a backhand

Senior Airman Hayden McAleavey looks for a backhand shot against the Army's defense in the 21st Annual Army vs Air Force hockey game Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Air Force held ... More

The 2016 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force

The 2016 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force

The 2016 Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Air Force hockey team lines up before battling the U.S. Army Alaska hockey squad Jan. 9 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska's 1st Battalion (Airborne),

Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska's 1st Battalion (Airborne),

Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska's 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment prepare to move out on a mission during a light snowfall. The soldiers, all mortarmen from within the battalion, were training ... More

Competitors take the ski lift to the top of Fort

Competitors take the ski lift to the top of Fort

Competitors take the ski lift to the top of Fort Wainwright's Birch Hill to begin the downhill ski event of the USARAK Winter Games Jan. 27, 2016. As America’s Arctic Warriors, USARAK Soldiers train hard to cul... More

Col. Michael Varter, German Army Training Command,

Col. Michael Varter, German Army Training Command,

Col. Michael Varter, German Army Training Command, demonstrates a set of skis, boots and bindings currently being used by the German Army. Varter was one of 24 attendees representing nine countries that U.S. Ar... More

Spc. Matthew Fannon, 716th Ordnance Company (EOD),

Spc. Matthew Fannon, 716th Ordnance Company (EOD),

Spc. Matthew Fannon, 716th Ordnance Company (EOD), remotely negotiates a notional suspected bomb-making area using an EOD robot as part of exercise Alaska Shield, Friday, April 1. The 716th is part of U.S. Army... More

Spc. Mark Aderholt, B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd

Spc. Mark Aderholt, B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd

Spc. Mark Aderholt, B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, keeps an eye on the gauges as part of the startup for a CH-47F Chinook helicopter. Aderholt was part of three crews from the U.S. Army Alask... More

After the hard work of offloading roughly 11,000 pounds

After the hard work of offloading roughly 11,000 pounds

After the hard work of offloading roughly 11,000 pounds of equipment and supplies, soldiers from B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment use plastic sleds for a quick slide across Kahiltna Glacier Marc... More

Sgt. John Manning, B Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry

Sgt. John Manning, B Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry

Sgt. John Manning, B Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, orients his map as he prepares to plot his coordinates. Manning and 23 other U.S. Ar... More

Busloads of service members receive an early morning

Busloads of service members receive an early morning

Busloads of service members receive an early morning police escort into Seward, Alaska, May 26 to take part in the 10th Annual Armed Services Combat Fishing Tournament. The tournament, hosted by the city and th... More

Strykers from 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment,

Strykers from 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment,

Strykers from 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team roll out to the live-fire range in the Yukon Training Area July 23 as exercise Arctic Anvil 2016 kicked into high gear. (Army ... More

Republic of Kosovo Security Force Cpl. Besim Emini

Republic of Kosovo Security Force Cpl. Besim Emini

Republic of Kosovo Security Force Cpl. Besim Emini tackles the rock skill training area at the Northern Warfare Training Center's Black Rapids Training Site. Emini was one of two Kosovar soldiers who graduated ... More

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from U.S. Army Alaska's

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from U.S. Army Alaska's

UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from U.S. Army Alaska's Aviation Task Force deliver opposing forces soldiers for an air assault attack on soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment July 25 in the Donn... More

Aircraft from the Blue Angels Navy Flight Demonstration

Aircraft from the Blue Angels Navy Flight Demonstration

Aircraft from the Blue Angels Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron soar over Anchorage, Alaska, during their exhibition at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Arctic Thunder 2016 open house July 30. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Specialists from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska

Specialists from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska

Specialists from the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service unload the all-terrain vehicle which carries the Terra Torch – the tool they will use to make short work of brush piles as part of a prescribed... More

Sgt. Jose Castro, 539th Transportation Company, leads

Sgt. Jose Castro, 539th Transportation Company, leads

Sgt. Jose Castro, 539th Transportation Company, leads the color guard off the Carlson Center ice after the national anthem to begin the 22nd Annual Army vs. Air Force hockey game Saturday, Nov. 5, in Fairbanks,... More

Just browsing, US Army Photo

Just browsing, US Army Photo

Army, Air Force and civilian workers were treated to a rare photo opportunity Nov. 15, 2016, when a pair of bull moose stopped in front of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Welcome Center for a quick brunch. Du... More

Sgt. Kevin Archibald helps a young family member get

Sgt. Kevin Archibald helps a young family member get

Sgt. Kevin Archibald helps a young family member get his poster ready for display Dec. 1 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Buckner Physical Fitness Center while waiting for soldiers from the 109th Transporta... More

Cpl. Evan Hammersley, from Lynnfield, Mass., moves

Cpl. Evan Hammersley, from Lynnfield, Mass., moves

Cpl. Evan Hammersley, from Lynnfield, Mass., moves the puck in the first period of the 4th Annual Army vs. Air Force Hockey Game Jan. 7, 2017, at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, Alaska. Hammersley's 18 years o... More

Soldiers' gear sits ready for participation in U.S.

Soldiers' gear sits ready for participation in U.S.

Soldiers' gear sits ready for participation in U.S. Army Alaska's Winter Games at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, March 9, 2017. This year’s events include downhill ski racing, live-fire biathlon range, stress shootin... More

Alaska’s senior military leaders traveled to the state

Alaska’s senior military leaders traveled to the state

Alaska’s senior military leaders traveled to the state capitol in Juneau March 23 to brief the legislature’s Joint Armed Services Committee about armed forces activities in Alaska. Air Force Lt. Gen. Kenneth W... More

Col. Paul L. Larson shares a laugh with U.S. Army Alaska

Col. Paul L. Larson shares a laugh with U.S. Army Alaska

Col. Paul L. Larson shares a laugh with U.S. Army Alaska Commanding General Maj. Gen. Bryan Owens before assuming command of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Friday, Marc... More

Sgt. Bryan Mikesell, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Sgt. Bryan Mikesell, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Sgt. Bryan Mikesell, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, prepares for a live-fire assault as part of Oak Edge, May 10, 2017, in the Donnelly Trai... More

Paratroopers from U.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade

Paratroopers from U.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade

Paratroopers from U.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Divsion jump from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter onto the Malemute Drop Zone at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Al... More

Soldiers from C Troop, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment,

Soldiers from C Troop, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment,

Soldiers from C Troop, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, explore the area around the Mountain Vista rest area in Denali National Park, Alaska, July 25,... More

Family members create signs to welcome home their 1st

Family members create signs to welcome home their 1st

Family members create signs to welcome home their 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment Soldiers at Fort Wainwright's Hangar 5 Oct. 31, 2017. About 100 Task Force Dragon Soldiers returned to Alaska following a ... More

Paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute

Paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute

Paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment face the chilling rotor wash from a hovering helicopter at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Nov. 28, 2017. The paratroopers collaborated wit... More

Cadre and students of the Northern Warfare Training

Cadre and students of the Northern Warfare Training

Cadre and students of the Northern Warfare Training Center's Cold Weather Leader Course 18-01 prepare for a snowshoe movement at the Black Rapids Training Site Dec. 2. This course trains squad and platoon level... More

Air Force goalie Neil Gottschall of Anchorage, Alaska,

Air Force goalie Neil Gottschall of Anchorage, Alaska,

Air Force goalie Neil Gottschall of Anchorage, Alaska, blocks an Army shot on goal in the 5th Annual Army vs Air Force Hockey Game Jan. 13, 2018, at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Although Army scored first t... More

An opposing force Soldier scurries to prepare for the

An opposing force Soldier scurries to prepare for the

An opposing force Soldier scurries to prepare for the incoming B Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division attack during Operation Punchbowl, Feb. 6,... More

Marines practice methods for packaging and transporting

Marines practice methods for packaging and transporting

Marines practice methods for packaging and transporting a hypothermic casualty Feb. 20, 2018, at the Northern Warfare Training Center's Black Rapids Training Site. U.S. Army Alaska provided the Marines a seven-... More

Returning paratroopers disembark from an aircraft at

Returning paratroopers disembark from an aircraft at

Returning paratroopers disembark from an aircraft at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson May 6, 2018. More than 350 Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division flew bac... More

Families and friends anticipate the imminent arrival

Families and friends anticipate the imminent arrival

Families and friends anticipate the imminent arrival of nearly 300 paratroopers at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Hangar 1 Sunday, May 13. The Soldiers, from U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Te... More

Paratroopers from the U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry

Paratroopers from the U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry

Paratroopers from the U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division and the 1st Airborne Brigade Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force took part in opening ceremonies for e... More

Mari Gorash displays the sign she made for the reunion

Mari Gorash displays the sign she made for the reunion

Mari Gorash displays the sign she made for the reunion with her husband, Staff Sgt. Artiom Gorash. Family and friends of nearly 400 paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infant... More

Paratroopers from the 1st Airborne Brigade Japanese

Paratroopers from the 1st Airborne Brigade Japanese

Paratroopers from the 1st Airborne Brigade Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force exit a C-130 aircraft over Malemute Drop Zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as part of exercise Arctic Aurora, June 12, 2018. A... More

An untimely gust of wind carries a paratrooper's parachute

An untimely gust of wind carries a paratrooper's parachute

An untimely gust of wind carries a paratrooper's parachute aloft after a joint airborne operation with paratroopers from the 1st Airborne Brigade Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force and the 4th Infantry Brigade ... More

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade conducted a live fire

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade conducted a live fire

The 18th Field Artillery Brigade conducted a live fire of their High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Oct. 9, 2018, as part of a Rapid Infiltration facilitated by an Air Force C-130. The HIMARS live fire was su... More

Paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

Paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

Paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division jump from a C-130 aircraft into Donnelly Training Area, Alaska, Oct. 9 to kick off exercise Arctic Anvil 19-01. Arctic A... More

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter from B Company, 1st Battalion,

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter from B Company, 1st Battalion,

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter from B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment delivers a vehicle across the Donnelly Training Area during Arctic Anvil 19-01, Oct. 11, 2018. Arctic Anvil is a joint, multi-nat... More

Soldiers from the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Soldiers from the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion,

Soldiers from the 70th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division prepare to recover a training mine-clearing line charge Oct. 14 in the Donnelly Training Area as part o... More

Police block traffic on the southbound Glenn Highway

Police block traffic on the southbound Glenn Highway

Police block traffic on the southbound Glenn Highway north of Anchorage, Alaska, in response to severe highway damage caused near Mirror Lake by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake at 8:29 a.m. Nov. 30, 2018. The quake ... More

Distinguished guests and family members of Staff Sgt.

Distinguished guests and family members of Staff Sgt.

Distinguished guests and family members of Staff Sgt. Justin T. Gallegos stand for the national anthem Saturday, Dec. 15, during the ceremony to upgrade Gallegos’ posthumous Silver Star Medal to the Army’s seco... More

A grader spots for Spc. Grant Cook, 5th Squadron, 1st

A grader spots for Spc. Grant Cook, 5th Squadron, 1st

A grader spots for Spc. Grant Cook, 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division as he strains to complete another iteration of the leg tuck, a standard event in t... More

The joint color guard moves onto the ice at the Carlson

The joint color guard moves onto the ice at the Carlson

The joint color guard moves onto the ice at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, prior to the opening faceoff of the 24th Annual Army vs Air Force hockey game Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. The Army skaters won t... More

Canadian Brigadier-General (retired) M.P. Jorgensen

Canadian Brigadier-General (retired) M.P. Jorgensen

Canadian Brigadier-General (retired) M.P. Jorgensen fights back tears as he remembers the crash of a Royal Canadian Air Force C-130 aircraft 30 years ago on Fort Wainwright. Jorgensen, then a captain, was injur... More

Army Maj. Gen. Mark O’Neil, U.S. Army Alaska commanding

Army Maj. Gen. Mark O’Neil, U.S. Army Alaska commanding

Army Maj. Gen. Mark O’Neil, U.S. Army Alaska commanding general, takes to the ice Feb. 16 as military skaters from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson clashed in the 6th Annual Army vs. Air Force Hockey Game at Sul... More

Northern Warfare Training Center cadre Steven Decker

Northern Warfare Training Center cadre Steven Decker

Northern Warfare Training Center cadre Steven Decker issues snowshoes, skis and ski poles to students attending NWTC's Cold Weather Leaders Course 19-004 at the Black Rapids Training Site Feb. 27, 2019. NWTC pr... More

Cold Weather Leaders Course 19-004 students ski along

Cold Weather Leaders Course 19-004 students ski along

Cold Weather Leaders Course 19-004 students ski along Hippie Trail at the Northern Warfare Training Center’s Black Rapids Training Site during the 10-kilometer biathlon March 12, 2019. The Cold Weather Leaders ... More

Medics from the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Airborne),

Medics from the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Airborne),

Medics from the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion (Airborne), 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, carry a simulated casualty to an extraction point while training... More

With temperatures dropping to minus 20, Gen. Paul J.

With temperatures dropping to minus 20, Gen. Paul J.

With temperatures dropping to minus 20, Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, got to experience a taste of what makes America's Arctic Warriors Arctic Tough as he toured Fort Wainwright on his initial visit to U.S. Army Alask... More

Northern Warfare Training Center instructor Staff Sgt.

Northern Warfare Training Center instructor Staff Sgt.

Northern Warfare Training Center instructor Staff Sgt. Eli Grossman makes ski trails through deep snow on Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Dec. 5, 2019. Grossman was part of an NWTC capabilities demonstration for new U... More

A U.S. Army Alaska paratrooper prepares for his parachute

A U.S. Army Alaska paratrooper prepares for his parachute

A U.S. Army Alaska paratrooper prepares for his parachute landing fall with Mount Susitna in the background. Nearly 200 paratroopers from the 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Ai... More

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe into the mountains while pulling loaded ahkio sleds at the Northern Warfare Training Center’s Black Rapids Training Site Feb. 11, 2020. CWOC instruction ... More

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe

Cold Weather Orientation Course 20-002 students snowshoe into the mountains at the Northern Warfare Training Center’s Black Rapids Training Site Feb. 11, 2020. CWOC instruction exposes senior leaders to extreme... More

U.S. Army Alaska airborne artillery Soldiers jump from

U.S. Army Alaska airborne artillery Soldiers jump from

U.S. Army Alaska airborne artillery Soldiers jump from an Air Force C-130 on a blue-sky day. Nearly 400 paratroopers from the 2nd Battalion, 277th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment dropped into Joint Base Elme... More

An Advanced Military Mountaineering Course student

An Advanced Military Mountaineering Course student

An Advanced Military Mountaineering Course student searches for a route up a rock face at the Northern Warfare Training Center’s Black Rapids Site during training. NWTC cadre followed Coronavirus restrictions w... More

A small-unit support vehicle drops softly to the ground

A small-unit support vehicle drops softly to the ground

A small-unit support vehicle drops softly to the ground at the Donnelly Training Area Feb. 8, 2021, shortly before paratroopers with the 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Co... More

An opposing force soldier fires at attacking paratroopers

An opposing force soldier fires at attacking paratroopers

An opposing force soldier fires at attacking paratroopers from C Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment during an assault on the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility in the Donnelly Tra... More

Sgt. Joshua Hucke works to set up camouflage netting

Sgt. Joshua Hucke works to set up camouflage netting

Sgt. Joshua Hucke works to set up camouflage netting over a portion of E Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation's Forward Area Refueling Point at Firebird Assault Landing Strip in the Yukon Training Area July 19... More

Soldiers and Marines at Fort Wainwright's Hangar 1

Soldiers and Marines at Fort Wainwright's Hangar 1

Soldiers and Marines at Fort Wainwright's Hangar 1 prepare to load into waiting CH-47F Chinook helicopters Feb. 28, 2020, for a mission in support of Arctic Edge 2020. As a Homeland Defense exercise, AE20 is de... More

At 20,310 feet, Denali is the tallest peak in North

At 20,310 feet, Denali is the tallest peak in North

At 20,310 feet, Denali is the tallest peak in North America. Aviators from B Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment provided an assist to the National Park Service April 22, 2018, by flying thousands of... More

Soldiers from Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery

Soldiers from Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery

Soldiers from Battery C, 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment battle stiff winds, sub-zero temperatures and blowing snow as they prepare to hook up their 155mm howitzer to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter for ... More

Airborne soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team

Airborne soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team

Airborne soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, salute during the Nov. 1 redeployment ceremony for the 4-25th ABCT at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. (U.S. Air Force phot... More

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon

First Lt. Kenneth Cummings eyes Staff Sgt. Brian Mellon during U.S. Army Alaska's 2013 Staff Sgt. Jacob G. McMillan Combatives Tournament March 22 in the Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-... More

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for

Crew members prepare a CH-47F Chinook helicopter for a flight April 26, 2013 at the airfield in Talkeetna, Alaska. U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment helped the National Park Service t... More

First Sgt. Tom Dow poses with the peak of Mount McKinley

First Sgt. Tom Dow poses with the peak of Mount McKinley

First Sgt. Tom Dow poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

Staff Sgt. Zachary McGee poses with the peak of Mount

Staff Sgt. Zachary McGee poses with the peak of Mount

Staff Sgt. Zachary McGee poses with the peak of Mount McKinley looming in the background. (Army photo/John Pennell)

The Alaska Range reflects in the visor of U.S. Army

The Alaska Range reflects in the visor of U.S. Army

The Alaska Range reflects in the visor of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Evan Sutton, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, onboard a U.S. Army Alaska Aviation Task Force CH-47 Chinook helicop... More

Paratroopers assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne),

Paratroopers assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne),

Paratroopers assigned to the 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment approach the ground during an Arctic airborne operation in the complete over-white uniform on Malemute Drop Zone at Joint Base Elmendo... More

Families and friends greeted another 280 returning

Families and friends greeted another 280 returning

Families and friends greeted another 280 returning paratroopers May 21, 2018, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Hangar 1. The Soldiers, from U.S. Army Alaska's 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25... More

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows

Max Thomas, son of Sgt. Jordan Thomas, checks out rows of baggage belonging to returning soldiers from the 95th Chemical Company. The soldiers reunited with their families March 11 at Buckner Physical Fitness C... More

Spc. David Cole wheels a bag through a maze of duffle

Spc. David Cole wheels a bag through a maze of duffle

Spc. David Cole wheels a bag through a maze of duffle bags and rucksacks as he and other 2nd Engineer Brigade soldiers unload baggage for fellow soldiers returning from Afghanistan. About 150 soldiers from the ... More

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays

Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey Lange, 9th Army Band, plays pre-ceremony music Jan. 6 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Buckner Physical Fitness Center. Buckner was the site for U.S. Army Alaska's official welcome ho... More

Army goalie Marshall Brothers blocks a shot in the

Army goalie Marshall Brothers blocks a shot in the

Army goalie Marshall Brothers blocks a shot in the first period of the 2015 Army vs. Air Force hockey game. The teams were made up of Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve service members, as well as Royal Ca... More

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