| 'Sugarbears on Food Drop' portrays three CH-47 Chinook helicopters out of Fort Wainwright delivering donated salmon to feed working dogs in villages around the Alaska Interior. In 1998, a Valdez hatchery donated 200,000 pounds of fish to the relief effort after the village of Tanana and others throughout the Interior experienced a weak chum run during the year. The United States Army volunteered to assist in the effort by providing a number of their heavy load-carrying Chinooks successfully and rapidly moving over 56,000 pounds of donated fish in Operation FISH-EX. |