Story by Balinda ONeal | Alaska National Guard | 02.06.2024
BETHEL, Alaska — Bison Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment, demonstrated readiness and resilience during their cold weather training in Bethel, Alaska, February 2-4, 2024....
Story by Alan Brown | Alaska National Guard | 03.27.2023
A host of Alaska National Guardsmen and members of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs and Alaska State Defense Force traveled to Bethel during its 2023 Cama-i Dance Festival, March 24-26, for celebration, community outreach and training....
Story by Alan Brown | Alaska National Guard | 09.30.2022
The Alaska State Emergency Operations Center is working closely with state, federal and private-sector partners to coordinate the shipment and distribution of thousands of pounds of humanitarian supplies to Western Alaska communities hardest hit by Typhoon Merbok. A recent delivery, coordinated by the SEOC, American Red Cross of Alaska and Alaska Volunteer Organizations Active in......
Story by Alan Brown | Alaska National Guard | 09.23.2022
After deploying to the hub communities of Bethel, Nome and Hooper Bay on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, Joint Task Force Alaska conducted debris clean up, damage assessments, and other recovery tasks in the wake of last weekend’s storm....
Story by Alan Brown | Alaska National Guard | 09.21.2022
More than 100 members of Joint Task Force Alaska deployed to the hub communities of Bethel and Nome today, as part of Operation Merbok Response, to support recovery efforts across Western Alaska. The task force includes members of the Alaska Air and Army National Guard, the Alaska Naval Militia and the Alaska State Defense Force....
Story by 1st Lt. Balinda ONeal | Alaska National Guard | 08.23.2022
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — On the shores of the Kuskokwim River, 400 miles west of Anchorage, a Bethel couple cuts strips of salmon before carrying them to their smokehouse as youth spectators eagerly watch and learn about local subsistence life....
Story by Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead | Alaska National Guard | 04.13.2021
Commissioner for the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Maj. Gen. Torrence Saxe, traveled to Western Alaska last week to meet with Tribal leaders and citizens in Bethel, Tuluksak and Chevak to discuss disaster assistance measures and processes in light of recent emergencies that have occurred in the region, and in preparation for the upcoming flood season....
