Welcome All Alaska Nike Vet's

Attention all Alaska Nike Veterans! The Friends of Nike Site Summit are organizing an Alaskan Nike Veterans reunion in Anchorage, 16-19 September 2024. Activities will include visits to the Alaska Veterans Museum, Alaska Aviation Museum, a selection of other museums/points of interest/shopping, and a tour of Site Summit to see what we've been up to since our last reunion (hint: a LOT!). We're trying to develop a rough number of rooms that we'll need to block out, so if this is something that you might wish to do - perhaps in conjunction with a shoulder-season visit to Alaska (everything's less expensive!) - send an email to both akrockhound1@gmail.com and fonss2007@gmail.com. Let us know how many might be accompanying you, and if you need an extra room.

 

Hope to see you next year!

Here is the most recent tentative list of activities (subject to further change):

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Monday: Travel day. Earlier arrivals could head down to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center on the Seward Highway near the Portage turnoff. Evening ice breaker at the hospitality suite.

 

Tuesday:  Lunch at (possibly) Pipers, followed by a visit to the Alaska Aviation Museum. Drive around the world's largest float plane aerodrome. Head to Kincaid Park - formerly A Battery (Site Point) - then Potters Marsh. The boardwalk is quite impressive, but lengthy. Dinner at Simon & Seafort or similar. Evening slideshow on recent progress of FONSS' SS activities.

 

Wednesday: Mandatory UXO training at Range Control, followed by Site Summit tour. Larger AWD vehicles are recommended, so car-pooling will likely be necessary. Order take out pizzas for the hospitality suite. 

 

Thursday   Alaska Veterans Museum, and Anchorage Museum. Allow 2 hours (or more) for each. Both are Downtown, just blocks from each other. There are numerous lunch spots and stores located near the museums. Wrap-up dinner at?

 

Friday: Safe travels!

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Host Hotel Information

The search for our reunion hotel took many hours and miles, but we finally have one selected. I was in sticker-shock at the start of this quest, as bid after bid came in between $279 and $325 per night after the group discount! Anchorage is a hot tourist destination, and the hotel industry knows it. The best price/decent quality hotel combo I could find is Comfort Suites, 2919 W. International Rd. for $229 plus tax. They have large rooms, airport shuttle, breakfast buffet, pool and weight room. The regional manager told me the breakfast room can serve as our hospitality room in the afternoon/evening, and they won't mind us bringing in snacks and beverages for evening gatherings. 

 

Updates on tours and activities to follow.

 

To reserve your double queen or single king room (see photos), call (907) 243-8080. Be sure to give them the following code info:

 

Group Name:

Friends Of Nike Site Summit

 

Group Number:

YN82Y6

 

 

  Check-in:

16

Monday, Sep 16, 2024
3:00 PM

 

  Check-out:

20

Friday, Sep 20, 2024
11:00 AM

 

 

The entire FONSS group is looking forward to seeing you this fall!

 

Greg Durocher

Site Summit 1974-1976

 

 

Address your inquires to the following.

Greg Durocher   akrockhound1@gmail.com

or  Friends of Nike Site Summit  fonoss2007@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 For this year the Nike Historical Society  may be holding a reunion at Nike Site SF88 this September, you may want to check this out.

Also a idea was submitted to us on a joint reunion of all involved in "Air Defense" this would include US Army and Marine Hawk units and others. A great amount of planning would have to be done by the various groups involved. We would have to make some inquiries into this to test the water and get back to our vet's with the information.

You may wish to check the “Reunion Page” at www.a-2-562.org  as further info will be posted there when it’s updated.