[3][4] In 1989, the AKNM was deployed to assist in recovery operations after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.The US was enacting a 200-mile Offshore Zone; continued foreign fishery incursions into Alaska fishing waters occurred.As Alaska had no organized Navy Reserve program at the time, Title 10 recognition would not be forthcoming.In February 1968, there was correspondence from Alaska US Senator Ernst Gruening contacting the Secretary of Navy Paul H. Ignatius.6 ANM members travel via the Alaska Railroad to Girdwood, then proceed by bus to the Pass as part of the recovery team.Avalanche victims include 28-year-old SGT Chris Scott USMCR and ANM member.The AKNM has focused on four mission areas:[4] Unlike state defense forces, naval militias are partially regulated and equipped by the federal government, and as such, membership requirements are in part dictated by federal rules.