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Military packs economic punch in state’s Interior
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nation awoke to Alaska’s strategic importance. The AlCan highway, now the Alaska Highway, was built quickly through northern Canada to Alas- ka, providing the first surface land transportation connection between what was then the Territory of Alaska to the continental U.S. Military supplies and equipment began moving up the highway. Fort Wainwright expanded to become the economic anchor for a larger Fair- banks community. Airfields were built along the new road to support the movement of aircraft and equip- ment from the U.S. to the then-Soviet Union, which was fighting a invasion by Nazi Germany. Fairbanks was the transfer point for the Allied effort to support the Soviet effort to repel the Nazis. It was where American pilots turned over aircraft to the Soviet pilots. The “hot” war of World War II in the 1940s became the cold war of the 1950s and 1960s and Fairbanks con- tinued to grow as a hub for defemse support, with construction of the Distant Early Warning radar sites along the state’s western and north- ern coasts. Today the Alaska Interior still plays a crucial role as a hub for defense ac- tivity, with the F-35s and tankerd at Eielson, the Stryker brigade at Fort Wainwright and the ballistic missile detection capability at Clear. An im- portant aspect is that Interior Alaska has wide-open airspace and land for training, which is important to the military. In Lower 48 installations land is often constricted and congestion in air traffic limits space for training.
Alaska will remain at the forefront of defense capability Interior Alaska’s military instal- lations pack a big economic punch. At Fort Wainwright, which is in and around Fairbanks, in 2024 there were 9,818 full-time military with an ad- ditional 3,045 civilian workers and 10,131 military family members. The total population on the base was 22,994 in 2024, according to the re- port. A U.S. Army Stryker Brigade is located at Fort Wainwright. At Eielson Air Force Base, east of Fairbanks, there were 3,120 active duty personnel, according to Eiel- son’s 2024 Economic Impact State- ment. There were an additional 3,972 military family members; 511 civil- ian workers;152 working in other non-uniform occupations with an additional 72 employed at the base Exchange, and an additional 702 with the Alaska Air National Guard. Most of Eielson’s Air Force per- sonnel are associated with the 354th Fighter Wing with its F-35s, which is part of the 11th Air Force headquar- tered at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage. The Alaska National Guard personnel at Eielson are most- ly working with the 168th support wing. National Guard personnel op- erate aerial refueling tankers based at Eielson. Active duty military at Eiel- son have a payroll of $279 million in 2024; payroll for National Guard and reserve personnel added another $43.2 million, and with an additional $64 million paid to civilian workers, according to Eielson’s 2024 Economic
Impact Statement. The total payroll including all of these was $322.25 million. When $159 million in Eielson’s 2024 purchasing is added, the total economic impact in the Fairbanks region reached $675 million last year. Eielson is one of two major Interior installations. There are other installations in the Interior. Fort Greely, near Del- ta, has its ballistic missile intercep- tors, which are operated by the Alas- ka Army National Guard. Fort Greely also operated the Black Rapids alpine Army training center south of Delta on the Richardson Highway. Clear Air Force Station southwest of Fairbanks, has radars capable of detecting and tracking enemy mis- siles and is a key part of the U.S. mis- sile defense system. The military has long played a key part in the development of Interior Alaska communities. Fairbanks was essentially a mining town until World War II, when Japan invaded two re- mote Aleutian chain islands and the
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