So far efforts to find 22-year-old Mason Heimer or his gray Dodge pickup truck — license plate JFY485 — have been unsuccessful.
Heimer lives on Fort Wainwright, where he is a construction engineer and has been stationed for eight months, said his father, Doug Heimer.
Mason spent Sunday night with a soldier in his unit who he often stayed with in the Chena Ridge area. On Monday morning he texted his sergeant to say he was sick and had made arrangements to get checked out on the way to morning physical training. Bank and security camera records showed that at 5:45 a.m. he drove near the Fort Wainwright gate, stopping at Walmart and the Johansen Expressway McDonald's.
“Then he went off the grid completely,” his father said.
Heimer said his son’s sergeant called him Tuesday and that he immediately got on a plane to Alaska to help look for his son. He is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the location of his son. A Facebook post he wrote about the search has been shared 8,700 times.
Both the Alaska State Troopers and Fort Wainwright’s military police are looking into the disappearance. Heimer said his son’s cellphone hasn’t “pinged” area towers since early Monday morning and that his son also hasn’t used social media or his bank card.
