From Alaska To Kuwait: How Our Guardsmen Got There

During the Cold War era, Alaska’s National Guard battalions were considered forward deployed as a first line of defense in the arctic against the Soviet Union. This status exempted them from overseas deployments. The end of the Cold War brought with it a change of mission for the Alaska Guard, whose [...]

Assignment Kuwait Begins Soon.

I’m Mike Martz, senior producer at KYUK-TV in Bethel, Alaska, a member of the Alaska ONE public television network. Bethel is located along the Kuskokwim River in western Alaska. It is home to the Yup’ik people. For the past year and a half I’ve been in production on a television [...]