176 Wing supports JBER Annual Foreign Object Airfield Clean-up Walk

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Tech. Sgt. Scott Hopkins, an electrical enviroonmental specialist from the 176 Maintenance Squadron, checks out an old shoe found by a co-worker May 14 during the annual Foreign Object Airfield Clean-up Walk. Military members across the base joined efforts to clean up the airfield here after the snow melted this Spring. The members collected over 1,970 pounds of foreign objects.

176 Wing supports JBER Annual Foreign Object Airfield Clean-up Walk

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Military members across the base joined efforts May 14 to clean up the airfield here after the snow melted this Spring during the annual Foreign Object Airfield Clean-up Walk. The members collected over 1,970 pounds of foreign objects.

Alaska ANG student flight filmed by NGB

JBER, Alaska -- Airman 1st Class Ray Rush, a crew chief from the 176th Maintenaince Group, gives an interiew here July 16 to Air Guard videographer Tech. Sgt. James Michaels. The 176th Wing's student flight program was filmed for a National Guard Bureau project to enhance recruiting, career development and diversity. Rush recently moved on from the wing's student flight.

Pararescuemen assist wounded warriors

TALKEETNA, Alaska -- Gerard Coleman, a team member of the Denali expedition, teaches Technical Sgt. Jeremy Madama and Staff Sgt. Bill Cenna, pararescuemen from the 212th Rescue Squadron, and the rest of the team how to use medical equipment to be used on the climb up Mount McKinley. Three members of the 212th Rescue Squadron supported a three-week, grassroots wounded-warrior project to take combat-injured veterans up Mount McKinley starting June 24.

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JOINT FORCE BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - Tech. Sgt. Brett Brandemuhl, a loadmaster from the 144th Airlift Squadron, briefs 176th Wing members on C-130 air safety protocols before take off, May 1, 2011. The members, a mixed group of about 30, were from the wing?s Medical Group, Civil Engineer Squadron, and the Sustainment Services Element, and were on Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) mission to Hayneville, Ala. The IRT program allows for real world training opportunities for military personnel while providing needed services to under-served communities in the United States. Alaska Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt N. Alicia Goldberger.

San Clemente

SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. -- Members of the 176th Civil Engineer Squadron check out a work site here before starting the project. Part of the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing, the 176 CES deployed to to this remote island off the coast of southern California for two weeks in March 2011 to train and work on a variety of infrastructure projects. Alaska Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger.