• Military appreciation hockey game 2016

    The Alaska Aces faced the Indianapolis Fuel at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 11, 2016. The Alaska Aces honored veterans for their service with a military appreciation weekend Nov. 11 and 12.

  • Dining facilities dish out more than a dollop for Thanksgiving

    Both the Wilderness Inn and Iditarod dining facilities are scheduling thanksgiving meals, and if service members play their cards right, they can double-dip this year.The Wilderness Inn is scheduled to have Thanksgiving on Nov. 23, from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. while the Iditarod Dining Facility is to be on

  • CSAF to JBER Airmen: ‘Alaska matters’

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein and his spouse, Dawn, visited Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska at the tail end of a two-week trip to various Pacific Air Forces installations, Nov. 10, 2016.“[The trip] was an opportunity to not only get out and see Airmen, but also make

  • Realize your athletic potential

    A cycling aficionado at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is attempting to start an Air Force Sports cycling team.Intramural sports, of which there are plenty on JBER, give service members the opportunity to display their athletic prowess at a local level. But Air Force Sports – like All-Army

  • Living with wildlife: Moose

    A small hill surrounds the Moose Crossing housing community at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The incline – blanketed with a late October glaze of Alaska’s finest – prompts young children, with parents in tow, to brave the path to the top of the summit.Simultaneously, a moose approaches the bottom

  • '3 Geronimo' paratroopers execute live-fire

    Paratroopers assigned to Baker Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, executed live-fire and movement-to-contact operations on the Infantry Squad Battle Course at Joint Base

  • JBER launches Polar Force 17-1

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson kicked off Polar Force 17-1, the semiannual two-week exercise designed to test JBER’s wartime operational limits, Oct. 31.The exercise tests the installation in conducting deployments, receptions, noncombatant evacuations and employment operations, said Brad Harris,

  • Spartan Paratroopers Execute Airborne Operation

    U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, execute an airborne training jump from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Malemute drop zone at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. The Soldiers of