• Girl Scouts help first responders train during Alaska Shield

    Members of Girl Scout Troop 285 participated in a mock disaster drill at The Red Dragon in conjunction with Alaska Shield 14 here March 29, 2014.The drill was done in support of civil disaster emergency response training and included members of the Cordova Volunteer Fire Department and soldiers from

  • Alaska patient evacuation on the wings of the U.S. Air Force

    U.S. Air Force staff setup a Disaster Aeromedical Staging Facility in Hangar 1 to simulate the treatment and evacuation of patients sent to them from Alaska's hospitals in a disaster situation here, March 31, 2014 as part of the state wide Alaska Shield exercise."If there is a disaster and the state

  • Volunteer pilots, photographers aid Alaska Shield disaster exercise

    Civil Air Patrol volunteers help ensure Alaska's energy assets are safe and secure during natural disasters by taking pictures and downloading them to federal authorities for analysis.On March 29, 2014, one such flight took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to inspect energy platforms as part

  • Frozen dangers demand sharpened skillset

    The Valdez Fire Department participated in Alaska Shield 14 by conducting a glacier rescue scenario here March 30, 2014. Alaska Shield 14 is an exercise that involves federal, state, local and military designed to test response and coordination efforts during a disaster and is modeled after the 1964

  • Working together to prepare for the worst

    As part of Alaska Shield 14, volunteers were stranded in frigid water simulating victims of a Tsunami here, March 29, 2014. This was a planned event to test disaster response by the U.S. Coast Guard and Army National Guard.The collaboration of these two groups during the exercise made the day

  • Keeping the Eyes of the Eagle sharp

    On the night of Oct. 4, 1958, 111 passengers boarded a Pan Am Boeing 707 at New York's Idlewild Airport for a non-stop 8 hours and 41 minutes flight to Paris' Le Bourget Airport. The journey ushered in the jet age for the United States and made the world a seemingly smaller place.Nearly 34 years

  • 725th BSB adds two companies

    The 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, increased its combat power by formally adding two additional companies to its ranks during a patch ceremony March 17 at the Alaska National Guard Headquarters Building at Joint Base