EIELSON AFB, Alaska, July 29 -- The U.S. Air Force (354th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: Tucked away in a corner of the 354th Maintenance Group is a small group of uniquely-skilled Airmen. Virtually any tool one needs to fix a piece of equipment can be found, but there is not a technical order in sight. This team has saved Eielson and the Air Force $2.7 million this year alone. A four-man team of Airmen hand-selected from the 354th Maintenance Group makes up the Air Force Repair Enha  more

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: Tucked away in a corner of the 354th Maintenance Group is a small group of uniquely-skilled Airmen. Virtually any tool one needs to fix a piece of equipment can be found, but there is not a technical order in sight. This team has saved Eielson and the Air Force $2.7 million this year alone. A four-man team of Airmen hand-selected from the 354th Maintenance Group (MXG) mak  more

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, July 29 -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District published the final environmental impact statement for the Pebble Limited Partnership's application to discharge fill material into waters of the United States for the purpose of developing a copper-molybdenum-gold mine project in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. The final EIS is not a permit decision and does not authorize oper  more

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, July 27 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District published the final environmental impact statement for the Pebble Limited Partnership's application to discharge fill material into waters of the United States for the purpose of developing a copper-molybdenum-gold mine project in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska on July 24. The Corps reiterates that the final  more

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services (APHIS-WS) renewed their partnership for alleviating human-wildlife conflicts on BLM-administered public lands. An updated Memorandum of Understanding clarifies respective roles and responsibiliti  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from Economics Daily: A location quotient measures how concentrated an occupation is in a geographic area compared with the nation. For example, the location quotient for zoologists and wildlife biologists in Alaska was 17.9 in May 2019. That means zoologists and wildlife biologists were employed in Alaska at 18 times the national rate! In May 2019, there were four states in which logg  more

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, July 29 -- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District published the final environmental impact statement for the Pebble Limited Partnership's application to discharge fill material into waters of the United States for the purpose of developing a copper-molybdenum-gold mine project in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska on July 24. The Corps reiterates that the final environmental impac  more

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: In these uncertain times, day-to-day routines for people across the globe have been upended. There are many things that remain unclear yet even in the face of challenges like a runway closure amidst a global health pandemic, the Iceman Team perseveres. The Wing closed the runway and flight line for routine maintenance July 8-16 sending the 356th Fighter Squadron and 18th   more

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Indo-Pacific Command issued the following news: In May 2019, U.S. Air Force Maj. Brad Short, then-3rd Wing chief of weapons and tactics, was conducting mission planning the same way it has been done since the 1940s: on a chalkboard, whiteboard or mapboard. He decided it was time to bring the process into the 21st century -- to digitize and automate the process. "Folks have talked about this in my circles for y  more

BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, Senior Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Sweeney established the first of seven offices dedicated to solving cold cases involving missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Information Center, there are m  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Marshals Service issued the following news release: This past week, "Operation (RAAVEN)" Rural Alaska Anti-Violence Enforcement continued efforts in response to Attorney General William P. Barr's declaration of a law enforcement emergency in rural Alaska. Federal, state and local law enforcement officers worked together in Bethel, Emmonak, Alakanuk, Nunam Iqua, Kotlik, Marshall and Russian Mission to account for registered sex offende  more