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  • 176th LRS Air Transportation holds Aerial Port "Rodeo"

    Members of the 176th Logistics Readiness Squadron Air Transportation Section staged an in-house Aerial Port Rodeo June 12.A "rodeo" tests the skills and abilities of each member within the section. This includes loading cargo and vehicles onto aircraft; ensuring the safety and security of

  • King brings home crown

    Maj. Rebecca King, deputy commander of the J6 Section at Joint Force Headquarters - Alaska and the 176th Wing's former executive officer, took first place in the women's sprint race at the Chief National Guard Biathlon Championships in March at Camp Ripley, Minn.Biathlon combines Nordic freestyle

  • Trash into Cash: Repair Enhancement Program nets big savings

    The mythical King Midas could turn trash into gold with a touch. The very real 176th Wing has its own equivalent: the Air Force Repair Enhancement Program (AFREP).Employed throughout the Air Force and reserve components, AFREP is a wing-level program that takes throw-away parts and makes them good

  • 176th Wing master sergeant donates marrow to unknown recipient

    "It is when you give of yourself," the poet Khalil Gibran wrote in 1923, "that you truly give." Few have lived out that sentiment as fully as Master Sgt. Duane Gonzales of the 176th Security Forces Squadron, who donated bone marrow to an unknown recipient in December.Five years ago, Gonzales learned

  • 176th Wing members tackle infrastructure work in Puerto Rico

    Leave it better than you found it. A group of Alaska Air National Guard members will be putting that maxim to practice here for the next two weeks as they tackle a wide range of infrastructure projects and fix-it jobs.Members of the 176th Civil Engineer Squadron, the 45 deployers are all experts in

  • Gambell Visit Wraps up Operation Santa Claus 2009

    It had been six years since Santa was last seen in this tiny Yupik Eskimo village in the Bering Sea. He'd been here, of course, every Christmas; making his way at midnight along the neat rows of tiny houses before vanishing at dawn. But none of the village's smaller children had ever actually seen

  • Bikes to Bagram

    More than 20 disadvantaged children in Afghanistan will get new bikes this month thanks to a group of Anchorage volunteers and an assist from the Alaska Air National Guard.The bicycles, together with parts and tools, were donated by the Anchorage Community YMCA, The Bicycle Shop, Paramount Cycles,

  • Arctic rescue Pavehawk-style

    The rescue squadrons here participate in training missions five days a week, day or night and in temperatures often below freezing. "Our primary rescue mission is to rescue a fighter pilot if he ever had to eject from his aircraft," explained Lt. Col. Rick Watson, an HH-60G Pavehawk evaluator pilot

  • Pararescuer performs tandem jump

    Airmen from a Kulis Air National Guard unit participated in a tandem jump at Malamute drop zone on Fort Richardson Oct. 21, 2009. Senior Airman Don Lacy, an aircrew flight equipment specialist with the 176 Operations Support Flight, was strapped to 1st Lt. John Romspert, a combat rescue officer with