Story by Derrick Crawford | United States Army Alaska | 11.01.2021
Nothing epitomizes U.S. Army Alaska’s (USARAK) enduring relationship with the state of Alaska and its citizens like the command’s annual participation in the Alaska Day Festival held in Sitka, Alaska. That relationship stretches back to Oct. 18, 1867 when more than 250 Soldiers stood in formation at the very ceremony where Russia transferred claim of the then-Territory of Alaska to the......