• Restoring Wake Island’s Guam Memorial: 'Honoring those who came before us'

    Pacific Air Forces Regional Support Center and Wake Island’s Detachment 1 leadership paid honor to 45 Chamorros with a rededication ceremony of the Guam Memorial June 8, 2017. In 1941, 45 Chamorro men from Guam lived on Wake Island working for Pan American Airlines, said Col. Frank Flores, PRSC

  • RED HORSE Squadron returns to JBER

    Members of the 819th RED HORSE Squadron, based at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, are back for three months this summer to continue Phase I of JBER’s north-south runway remodel.   The Rapid Engineer Deployable, Heavy Operational Repair Squadron, Engineer provides the Air Force a civil engineer

  • RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2 Took off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

    RED FLAG-Alaska 17-2 took off at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson June 8.RF-A is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. and international forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. It is conducted on the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex with air operations flown

  • JBER SFS compete in PACAF combat skills competition

    Clad in gas masks and Airman Battle Uniforms, four Airmen sprinted a half mile around the track outside the Elmendorf Fitness Center. I could barely stay in front of them – without a gas mask.  The four Airmen chasing me down were from the 673d Security Forces Squadron and were training for the 2017

  • AETC at JBER

    Although small and minimally manned, the 372nd Training Squadron, Detachment 14 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson plays a substantial role in developing the next generation of F-22 Raptor maintenance Airmen.  The detachment, is part of the Air Education and Training Command’s 82nd Training Wing,

  • A one-stop shop for child care

    Registering for child care programs just got a whole lot easier here at JBER thanks to MilitaryChildCare.com. The days of going into a Child Development Center to sign up are long gone.

  • Groundbreaking construction begins on Fisher House II

    The Fisher House of Alaska hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction for the Fisher House II June 6, 2017.  Since opening in 2012, the 12-suite Fisher House has been at maximum capacity. As a remedy, the installation commander provided a temporary annex location for an