• Get ahead start of PFD

    Service members who are filing for the Permanent Fund Dividend for the first time with the purpose of establishing an indefinite Alaska residency should start printing their December 2016 leave and earnings statement through the Defense Finance and Accounting Service website.  “[When logging into]

  • Frozen in time

    Glaciers are essentially ice rivers that flow down mountains through gravitational pull on the weight of repeated snowfalls that eventually freeze and are absorbed into the glacier.One glacier, about 50 miles east of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, has carried an invaluable payload for the past 65

  • New annual Mental Health Assessment requirement begins July 31

    Starting July 31, 2017, Airmen undergoing their annual Periodic Health Assessment may notice something new. A Mental Health Assessment will now be part of every annual PHA, to help ensure that Airmen suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues are referred to the necessary care. Mental health

  • Team Building,TFI Alaska to Hawaii

    The 477th Fighter Group Aircraft Maintenance Squadron joined Raptor partners from the Hawaii Air National Guard, 154th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, for their annual tour soaring through two weeks of day to day missions from June 19-July 01, 2017 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

  • 30 years of service

    There’s only one schedule on a dairy farm: the cow’s. The staff wakes up at the cow’s leisure, feeds the bovines on a specific schedule, and works until the cows put their day’s work in to get milk out as quickly as the animal can produce it. Some days are longer than others, and there are no breaks

  • JBER hosts DSD briefing

    A Developmental Special Duty seminar was hosted at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Professional Military Education Center June 29, 2017. There are 10 designated developmental special duties – all of which are specified as developmental because of their unique leadership roles and the

  • New Air Force health mobile app available for patients

    The Air Force Medical Service has launched a new mobile app to connect Airmen and patients to news and information about the AFMS. The new app is a mobile version of the AFMS website, and lets users customize their experience based on the Air Force military treatment facility (MTF) they use. This

  • Bioenvironmental Engineering Water Report

    A water utility seldom takes the opportunity to tell customers all they are doing to produce exceptional-quality drinking water. Often, we concentrate only on our mission and fail to "toot our own horn."