By Suzanne Downing 
The Alaska Legislature’s Joint Armed Services Committee will meet the day after Veterans Day in the Anchorage Legislative Information Office’s Denali Room to receive updates on disaster response and federal defense policy concerns.
The meeting, which will be teleconferenced, includes a briefing on the Typhoon Halong disaster update from key leaders in Alaska’s emergency response network:
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Colonel (ret.) Craig Christenson, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
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Bryan Fisher, Director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
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Brigadier General Brian Kile, Commander of the Alaska Air National Guard and Assistant Adjutant General
The committee will also review the Joint Armed Services Committee Statute Restructuring Project, a legislative effort it says is to modernize and clarify the framework guiding Alaska’s coordination with federal defense and emergency entities.
A third presentation will focus on Democrats’ constitutional concerns about Department of War policies and actions in 2025, featuring two retired military legal experts:
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Colonel (ret.) Karen Fair, J.D., LL.M., General Counsel and Vice President of “Improving One Life at a Time”
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Lt. Colonel (ret.) Daniel Maurer, Associate Professor of Law at Northern Ohio University
Both are expected to address critically how recent DOW directives intersect with constitutional limits and state sovereignty issues that have emerged this year.
Could be worse, they could have included Dumb-bar for his vast military knowledge, guaranteeing cluster-intercourse.nothing as useful as a JAG -OFFicer like him
“Improving One Life at a Time” ? Sounds like a money-laundering NGO to me.
It would be more helpful if Alaska legislators would stay in their lane and do something meaningful for Alaska base military members and their families. K-12 education and spouse employment are just two examples. DoW directives on the above topic are not their job—and frankly DoW doesn’t care what they think.