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Front and center sat Bruce Boolowon, the last surviving member of the First Scout Batallion, surrounded by the families of the other 15 men that made up his battalion.

Compounding the rescue was not only lingering fog from sea ice, but also a power outage at Little Diomede, an island in the Bering Strait located 2 miles from Russia.

“I’m glad we did our duty as a guardsman.”

Members of the 32-person delegation of soldiers, airmen and civilians from the Alaska National Guard and Department of Military and Veterans Affairs exit an Alaska Air National Guard HC-130J Combat King II aircraft in Gambell, Alaska, under stormy...

GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16,

The Alaska National Guard held a ceremony in Gambell honoring 16 Alaska Scouts who saved a Navy aircrew after a Soviet attack

Personnel recovery airmen from New York Air National Guard tested their capabilities to perform safe extractions in contested scenarios.

In June 1955, Alaska National Guard Pvt. Bruce Boolowon had to stop egg hunting on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. He heard the unhealthy whine of a distressed plane engine pass overhead. A few minutes later, he saw a big plume of smoke rising from the other side of the hill.

From World War I biplanes to the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots have been taking cockpit self-portraits since the dawn of human flight. These are some of the best.

"It's my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those [previous] threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck said.