Wayne Don News Today

Prosecutors say Brig. Gen. Wayne Don's latest arrest violates conditions of a deal struck after another incident involving his wife from November.

13 JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Although they didn’t know it when they left their home state in the heat of the pandemic seven months ago, Alaska Army National Guard Capt. Jessica Miller, a registered nurse with the Medical Detachment, and Sgt. 1st Class Juan Restrepo, a logistician in Joint Force Headquarters, were going to be the last rotation of Alaska National Guard liaisons accompanying the Mongolian Expeditionary Task Force to Afghanistan. They flew home t...

On Feb. 7, Wayne Don from Mekoryuk, who is a Calista board member, was promoted to brigadier general in the Alaska National Guard. That makes him the

Calista board member Wayne Don became a brigadier general in the National Guard this past weekend. He has been serving as the director of the joint staff in Alaska and heading up the Alaska National Guard’s COVID-19 Response Team, which has meant doing contact tracing, food distribution in Southcentral Alaska, and being prepared to do more if needed. “Nobody has needed guard assistance, which is a good thing,” said Don. “It means that the capacity in each of the communities hasn’t bee...

The Alaska National Guard will soon have a general who is from the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta. Calista Corporation board member Col. Wayne Don will be promoted