• 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.

  • 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