U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to the 525th Fighter Generation Squadron return from deployment on an Omni Air International Boeing 737 on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 3. More than 200 members of the 525th FGS were deployed to deter aggression and mitigate global tensions.
(U.S. Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Hannah Strobel)
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — With the grand reopening of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Iditarod Dining Facility, Basic Allowance for Sustenance II will discontinue for dorm residents as soon as early May.
Pago Pago, American Samoa — The U.S. Department of Defense and the French Army New Caledonia collaborated to participate in the biannual exercise Croix du Sud, a French-led multilateral exercise, which will last from April 22 to May 3 in the islands of Noumea, New Caledonia; Pago Pago; and Wallis and Futuna.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — On May 24, 1969, near the village of Long Sau, A Lonc Province in Vietnam, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. James Leroy Bondsteel, a platoon sergeant assigned to Company A, 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, assembled the Soldiers of his platoon into effective combat teams. Company A had been assigned to assist a unit endangered by a North Vietnamese battalion in a well-equipped base camp.
