Air Force History in Alaska
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Alaska is huge. It is more than one-fifth the size of the entire continental United States, with more miles of coastline than the other 49 states combined. If overlaid onto a map of the United States, with the eastern tip of the Alaska Panhandle grounded to the Atlantic Ocean, its western tip (at the end of the Aleutian Islands) would stretch to the coast of California.
Because of its sheer size and varied geography, search-and-rescue (SAR) operations in Alaska are carried out by several different agencies -- the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing, the United States Coast Guard, the National Park Service, the Alaska State Troopers and the Civil Air Patrol, for example.
Coordinating the efforts of these various agencies are the highly trained men and women of the 11th Rescue Coordination Center, a unit of the 176th Wing located in a small, high-tech facility on Elmendorf Air Force Base. These guard members, most of them full-timers, work in shifts around the clock, 365 days a year, monitoring Alaska's skies and responding to distress calls. Working under the guidance of the National SAR Plan [.pdf], they are responsible for all aeronautical SAR cases, both military and civilian.
The 11th RCC's mission is to locate and recover downed military and civilian aircrew personnel in Alaska as quickly and safely as possible. A secondary responsibility is to provide SAR assistance to state and federal agencies responsible for conducting ground searches for distressed individuals in the harsh arctic environment.
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HOMER, AK, UNITED STATES
07.02.2014
Video by Bernie Kale
Alaska National Guard Public Affairs
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