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Courtesy Story | Alaska National Guard Public Affairs | 05.31.2019
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard and the Girl Scouts of Alaska is releasing a new Girl Scout patch this week at the Encampment event at the Alaska State Fairgrounds in Palmer May 30-June 2....
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Photo by Justin Connaher | Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs | 12.20.2018
Kathryn Sharp, of Palmer, Alaska, is overcome with emotion and supports herself with the gravestone of her Vietnam War veteran husband retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Creig Mitchel Sharp during the annual Wreaths Across America event at the Fort Richardson National Cemetery on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Dec. 15, 2018. More than 3,200 wreaths were placed on veterans' final......
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Photo by Sgt. Marcel Pugh | 382nd Public Affairs Detachment | 07.22.2018
Army Sgt. Benjamin Rolfe, a Palmer, Arkansas native and a Bradley Fighting Vehicle gunner assigned to Alpha Company., 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, installs the firing bolt of a M240C Coaxial Machine Gun from inside a Bradley Fight Vehicle during gunnery at Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria, July 19, 2018. The company is stationed......
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Photo by Cpl. Jonah Baase | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.23.2018
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Sierra Vandermark and her military working dog, Kas, provide security during a low-light assault as part of a field training exercise, May 22, 2018, at White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, Japan. The exercise tested the Marines’ ability to use nonlethal force, operate entry control points and process crime scene evidence. Vandermark, a native of Palmer, Alaska, is a......
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Photo by Spc. Michael Risinger | 134th Public Affairs Detachment | 03.03.2018
Guardsmen of Alaska's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment raise a hand made flag pole during Arctic Eagle 2018 at the Donnelly Training Area outside of Fort Greely, Alaska, March 2, 2018. The flag was raised to improve already high morale for the Soldiers who have been living out of tents for several days of cold weather and arctic skills training. (U.S. Army National Guard......
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Photo by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs | 01.14.2017
Spc. Erik Salmon, an intelligence analyst assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, receives an Army Achievement Medal after completing a 270-day deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve at Camp Swift, Iraq, Jan. 14, 2017. The U.S. Soldiers, alongside international coalition partners, deployed to support the Government of Iraq and Iraqi Security Forces as......
Hometown: Palmer, AK
Story by Staff Sgt. Jason Hull | 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs | 01.14.2017
Before he enlisted, Spc. Erik Salmon was a traveler fond of seeing new places and experiencing different cultures. When the 26-year-old intelligence analyst deployed to Iraq in May, 2016, with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), he found himself trapped in tiny Camp Swift behind dirt barriers, concrete walls and concertina wire....
Hometown: Palmer, 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
