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Story by Sgt. David Bedard | Alaska National Guard Public Affairs | 09.22.2016
Career Alaska Army National Guardsman pins on brigadier general.
Hometown: Chugiak, AK
Photo by Sgt. Marisa Lindsay | Alaska National Guard Public Affairs | 09.22.2016
Lynn, the wife of Joseph Streff, commander of the Alaska Army National Guard, and grandchildren pin a brigadier general’s star on Streff during his promotion ceremony at the Alaska National Guard Armory, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Sept. 21, 2016. As the commander, Streff ensures the training and equipping of more than 1,700 Alaska citizen Soldiers here and at readiness centers across......
Hometown: Chugiak, AK
Story by Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead | Alaska National Guard Public Affairs | 08.29.2016
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons, and the California Air National Guard’s 130th Rescue Squadron rescued a man who was washed downriver in his truck about 25 miles west of Talkeetna Friday, Aug. 26....
Hometown: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, AK
Photo by Cpl. Alvin Pujols | 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.08.2016
U.S. 7th FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (August 06, 2016) -- U.S. Marine Corporal Tori C. Best, a combat engineer with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, is the current female pull up record holder aboard the USS Boxer, August 2016. Best is one of the few female Marines to graduate from one of the two Infantry Training Battalions. The 13th MEU, embarked on the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, is......
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
Story by Cpl. Alvin Pujols | 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit | 08.08.2016
A woman walks up to a pull up bar. She takes a deep breath, leaps up and grabs hold … one, two, three, four. She cranked out pull up after pull up … eighteen, nineteen, twenty …, when she couldn’t do any more, she dropped down and her Marine Corps issued boots seemingly puffed up smoke … twenty-six. Her name, now in bold black letters, holds her place as the female pull up record......
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher Hurd | Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling | 08.03.2016
WASHINGTON -- Running up and down a hiking trail in the desert of Utah, Air Force Col. Shannon Johnson was on the last leg of the Bryce Canyon 100-mile ultramarathon, June 18, when he looked down at his watch.
“I had my last nine miles to go, and I realized I wasn’t going to make it,” he said. “I was going to get kicked out again.”...
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Courtesy Story | 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command | 08.03.2016
“That which does not kill me will make me stronger.”
This was the attitude I took when facing the shock and awe of my beloved wife’s death. For the first couple of months, I was numbed, perhaps living in a zombie-like existence. All was surreal. Oh, I was in touch with reality. I found a way, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to function while in the midst of pain. I was a shell of a......
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
Photo by Sgt. Kimberly Menzies | 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command | 08.02.2016
Chaplain (Col.) Kenneth F. Revell, Command Chaplain, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, shares lessons learned from a life-changing event, the death or home-going of Anna Naomi Revell, his beloved wife of 28 years, in August 2014....
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
