Are you sure? I believe it is DoD policy that you cannot be privately armed on a military installation. While I could keep my firearms with me at my on-base housing unit, I wasn’t allowed to carry them around on base. When I was younger and lived in the barracks, I had to store my personal firearms in the SP Armory.
AFAIK, this ban is in effect in the Army, even after two separate shootings on Fort Hood...
Maybe in Alaska there is a different policy. Still, I was stationed in Wash DC for 7 years. Really more dangerous there than bears in Alaska!
No, I am not sure. I was never stationed at Elmendorf. I just listened to people who had been there.