• Learning how to learn from your mistakes

    Military members make up less than one percent of the U.S. population, and this small demographic of individuals who are willing and able to serve, are still human; we make mistakes.

  • Scheduler bridges Air Force maintenance, operations

    In the Tetris puzzle game, the player takes variously shaped four-tile combinations streaming down like a waterfall and decides how to fit them into the multicolored floor, clearing a line when it is complete.The pace makes the task easy enough at first, but eventually the game logic will overwhelm

  • ATC Airmen keep the skies safe

    Looking up to the skies on any given day, multiple aircraft can be seen flying around the Anchorage area. From commercial, civilian, and military aircraft, it would be an understatement to say the skies are busy. Thanks to the dedicated Airmen and civilians of air traffic control, these aircraft

  • U.S., Japan partnerships guarantee critical care

    Once a patient is deemed incapable of receiving care at Misawa Air Base due to medical constraints, the 35th Medical Support Squadron aeromedical evacuation team engineers an expedited mobility plan utilizing Pacific Air Forces assets to relocate the patient for critical care attention.Despite

  • Why Patients Must Fast Before Surgery

    It is 6 a.m. the morning of your scheduled surgery at the hospital on JBER and you wake up starving. The surgical staff has informed you not to eat anything after midnight, but you think a little snack won’t be a problem, right?

  • SFS train in simulated space

    Nestled within the confines of the old Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Airman’s Attic rests the latest tool in the security forces training arsenal – the MILO training system. Through carefully positioned screens and rear facing projectors, the Multiple Interactive Learning Objectives system

  • Anchorage thanks service members

    More than 470 service members, retirees and business leaders from across the Anchorage area participated in a military appreciation luncheon hosted by the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce in downtown Anchorage, June 12. “The military base and the personnel are such an important part of our community,”

  • Buckner hosts Three-Mile Mountain Run

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson service members participate in the Combat Cross-Country Series Three-Mile Mountain Run at Arctic Valley, Alaska, June 9, 2017. Team members from 773d Civil Engineer Squadron took first place in the competition.