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June 24, 2024
168th Wing takes Airmen to the skies during Red Flag Alaska Aerial Refueling Mission

The 168th Wing has a unique role in delivering vital air refueling support in the Pacific and Arctic regions and plays a crucial part in every Red Flag at Eielson Air Force Base, ensuring the high operational tempo and teamwork exercise are refueled. The refueling provided by the 168 WG strengthens
May 20, 2024
Security Forces Defenders at Clear Space Force Station recognize National Police Week

CLEAR SPACE FORCE BASE, Alaska – U.S. Air National Guard Airmen with the 268th Security Forces Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, organized a week of law enforcement activities to honor fallen Security Forces Airmen and law enforcement members from across the country who died in the line of duty.
May 10, 2024
354th Medical Group and 168th Operations collaborate on Hyperlite Hyperbaric stretcher training

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Flyers, divers, and jumpers are in a unique special duty community where they may be exposed to risks in their military operational duties. With preparedness at the forefront and the key to helping people, Airmen of the 354th Fighter Wing and 168th Wing conducted a
May 7, 2024
168th Wing Refuels Red Flag Alaska - Going the Distance

Red Flag-Alaska 24-1, a Pacific Air Forces-led exercise, ramped up operations at Eielson Air Force Base, allowing an exchange of tactics, techniques, and procedures with the visiting Italian Air Forces, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Navy, April 18 – May 3, 2024. Approximately 2,000 service members
April 16, 2024
168th Wing enables Fighter Support over the Pacific during Agile Reaper 24-1

Airmen from the 168th Wing support Agile Reaper 24-1, providing combat refueling capabilities to the 3rd Air Expeditionary Wing F-22 Raptors and airlift for cargo and passenger assets traveling from Joint Base Elemendorf-Richardson, Alaska, to Guam and multiple locations across the Pacific. As part
March 20, 2024
168th Security Forces train 168th Maintenance Multi-Capable Airmen

Airmen with the 168th Wing refined tactics for possible future conflicts during a shoot, move, and communicate course at Eielson Air Force Base, March 11-15, 2023. The 168th Maintenance Group Airmen were trained as multi-capable Airmen with the 168th Security Forces Squadron and learned SFS tactics
March 1, 2024
Serving our nation from Contracting to becoming a Pilot

Serving as a contract specialist in the 183d Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, Airman Rachel Clark received a phone call to serve in the 168th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard. Since the day she received the phone call in 2019, she has served with the 168th Wing and is now Lt. Rachel Clark.
Feb. 13, 2024
Services trains, tests, and serves up a Hot lunch on a Cold Day in February

Eielson Air Force Base recently experienced temperatures of -40 and colder, and the 168th Wing Force Support Squadron Food Services personnel were outside in the harsh elements, testing and preparing their Disaster Relief Mobile Kitchen Trailer to support the unit’s February drill weekend.
Jan. 29, 2024
Chief connects with People as an Airman and Tattoo Artist

People have been marking their skin for thousands of years. Around the world, across cultures, tattoos hold different significances. Ancient Siberian nomads, Indigenous Polynesians, Nubians, Native South Americans, and Greeks used tattoos for various reasons.The oldest documented tattoos belong to
Jan. 25, 2024
168th Wing Rising 6 helping Interior Alaska

As the hustling and bustling of the holiday season began, the 168th Wing Rising 6 Airmen organized a drive gathering donated items and gifts for the Nonprofit Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living. The idea started with Rising 6, the enlisted Airman organization wanting to give back to their

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