BETHEL — Alaska Organized Milita (AKOM) members delivered six pallets of food to a school in Nunapitchuk, a village about 25 miles northwest of Bethel on the Kuskokwim River, via an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter Oct. 28.

The remote Yup’ik community was cut off from supply routes after remnants of Typhoon Halong produced a severe fall storm that struck Western Alaska earlier this month.

“Normally, these villages stock up ahead of time, but with the storm coming when it did, they didn’t have the access they usually rely on,” said Staff Sgt. Alicia Grub, CH-47 helicopter repairer and crew chief with the AKARNG’s B Co., 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion.

Air Guard Col. Christen Brewer, the Alaska National Guard Joint Staff operations officer, said communities

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