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News Tipoffs - Alaska Editors Newsletter for Friday July 04, 2025 ( 2 items )  

AFMAO embodies 'No Airman left behind' - Operation Colony Glacier 2025
WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: * * * AFMAO embodies 'No Airman left behind' - Operation Colony Glacier 2025 * ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AFNS) -- Forty miles from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, and accessible only by helicopter, U.S. Air Force Capt. Travis Lockwood stands on Colony Glacier. Before him lies a wide, unforgiving landscape scattered with debris from a long-ago tragedy that has become a mission of recovery and reunion, 73 years later.  Colony Gla  more

Coast Guard District 17 renamed to U.S. Coast Guard Arctic District
WASHINGTON, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news release: * * * Coast Guard District 17 renamed to U.S. Coast Guard Arctic District * JUNEAU, Alaska -- The U.S. Coast Guard today announced the renaming of its operational districts from numerical to geographic designations, a key initiative under Force Design 2028 (FD2028). Within this Service-wide renaming initiative, Coast Guard District 17 will now be known as U.S. Coast Guard Arctic Dist  more