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  • Community and camaraderie through gaming

    EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska – Station ready, headset on, comm up, mission clear. Airmen and Guardians stand ready to engage the target, separated by thousands of miles and a multitude of time zones. This is nothing new for our service members, except this is happening off duty and is the

  • Wingmen across the 168th Wing

    The 168th Wing comptroller flight recognized Maj. David Simpson and Capt. Michael Nash of the 168th Civil Engineering Squadron for outstanding work as the Base Civil Engineers Squadron Resource Managers of the Facilities Operations Managers Association (FOMA) and Facility Sustainment Restoration and

  • 168th Wing Contracting receives Mission Execution Team Award

    The 168th Mission Support Contracting, Alaska Air National Guard at Eielson Air Force Base, received the Mission Execution Contracting Team Award.The Executive Director of Acquisitions, Ms. Efstathia Fragogiannis, recognizes the achievements and contributions of the contracting and cooperative

  • Interior Alaska JROTC visits 168th Wing

    Stepping down into the boom operator’s console, peering over the security forces’ weapons, and handling civil engineering equipment is a little of what the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students from throughout Interior Alaska took part in as they visited the 168th Wing.

  • 168th Wing Top 3 takes out the trash in Alaska Adopt-A-Highway Program

    As the sun melts the snow on the sides of the highways, a new season begins. In Fairbanks, Alaska, this means 70 degrees and outside activities in the great outdoors. It also means trash is left where snow once blanketed the roads. The 168th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard, has a long-standing

  • 168th Wing refuels Red Flag

    There is no need to stop for gas when the 168th Wing delivers. Airmen of the 168th Wing led a tanker task force refueling Red Flag-Alaska 22-1, enabling joint and multilateral training.

  • Medical Services Corps Officer Serves in Alaska Air Guard

    Serving in Alaska is a whole new journey for one Medical Services Corps officer. Maj. Elizabeth Mangini serves in the 168th Wing, 168th Medical Group, at Eielson Air Force Base. She started in the Army in the Medical Services Corps and has returned to the MSC career field in the Alaska Air National

  • Initial Fielding of Long-Range Discrimination Radar in Alaska

    CLEAR SPACE FORCE STATION, Alaska - The Missile Defense Agency held a ceremony at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, declaring the initial fielding of the Long-Range Discrimination Radar, December 6, 2021. The ceremony marked the completion of military construction as they finished installing radar

  • A Veteran's career unimagined

    Master Sgt. Lisa Espinoza could not have imagined the situations, opportunities, places she would travel and people her career would bring to her life when she joined the Air Force twenty years ago. Espinoza currently serves in the Alaska Air National Guard, 168th Wing, and will soon retire.

  • New weapon systems arrive at the 168th Wing

    EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — 168th Security Forces Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, received two new weapon systems at the October drill. The unit took delivery of the M4A1 Carbine and M18 SIG Sauer Modular Handgun System. Security Forces defenders then cleaned and underwent familiarization