• Air Force Transition Assistance Center: Turning boots into suits

    The Air Force Transition Assistance Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, serves as a hub for helping any service member, regardless of rank or reason for leaving service, the tools needed to adjust to civilian life. Although they primarily service the Air Force, any service is

  • Big toys big risks

    I was feeling cocky so I thumbed the throttle of my grandfather’s 600cc all-terrain-vehicle and gripped the gas tank with my knees as the wind picked up around me. My buddy and I had miles of dried-up lakebed to ourselves, although he was struggling to keep up in a side-by-side – one of the earlier

  • Holiday Tree Lighting

    Service members and families attend the annual Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Holiday Tree Lighting, at JBER, Alaska, Dec. 1, 2016. The event featured musical selections from the Ursa Major Elementary School choir and Central Middle School choir, and a guest appearance by Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus.

  • Duck the Halls

    Starting Nov. 28, the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Library is offering artists of all ages and experience, a chance to bring their favorite book characters to life.

  • Base Leadership serves up Thanksgiving 2016

    Every year, it is tradition for base leadership to serve the Airmen and Soldiers of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska a Thanksgiving meal. This year, there were two, one at the Wilderness Inn Dining Facility Nov. 23 and one scheduled for the next day at the Iditarod Dining Facility.

  • 773d LRS ensures mission readiness

    A team of Soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, weighed and measured equipment to be shipped to Fort Irwin, California.Humvees and Light Medium Tactical Vehicles are all part of the freight processed at the 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron Movement Control

  • Special Olympics athletes hold bowling tournament on JBER

    More than 300 Special Olympics Alaska athletes partnered with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to host a bowling tournament at the Polar Bowl over the weekend beginning Nov 18, 2016. The athletes were joined by 130 JBER volunteers who supported the event as lane monitors, motor coach escorts, awards

  • JBER SFS conducts M4 Carbine Proficiency Firing training

    673d Security Forces Squadron members, conduct live-fire drills under barricades Nov. 9, 2016, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Airmen of 673d SFS went to JBER's Statler/Newton Small Arms Range for M4 Carbine Proficiency Firing training, which teaches them to maneuver behind cover while