• Overcoming cancer, embracing life

    She placed a pillow under her right shoulder and put her right arm behind her head on the bed. Using her left hand, she pressed the pads of her fingers around her right breast gently in small circular motions, covering the entire breast area and armpit.

  • Avoiding tricks, getting treats: how to stay safe this Halloween

    Halloween is full of ghouls and ghosts, but in Alaska there are other dangers – cold, dark and wildlife. Halloween trick-or-treating on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m., Oct. 31. Curfew times for children 15 years old and under is 11 p.m.; for 16 and 17-year-olds, 1 a.m.

  • JBER's Airborne Contribution

    The command to “sound off for equipment check” resonates through the immense interior of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. The call of “One, OK!” finalizes the equipment check, then 170-pound Soldiers carrying 150 pounds of gear each shuffle like zombies toward the open door of the massive cargo

  • PACOM senior enlisted leader visits JBER

    Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Anthony Spadaro, U.S. Pacific Command senior enlisted leader, visited Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson for a three day immersion tour Oct. 19 to 21, 2016. Spadaro provides the PACOM commander with the enlisted perspective on theater security cooperation, encouraging peaceful

  • U.S., ROKAF enhance partnership during Red Flag 17-1

    Paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, and Tactical Air Control Party Airmen with the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron,  board a Republic of Korea Air Force C-130 Hercules during Red Flag Alaska 17-1 at Joint Base

  • Paws to Read celebrates one year

    The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson library hosted a celebration to commemorate the one-year mark of the Paws to Read program at JBER, Alaska, Oct. 15, 2016. “Paws to Read offers a comfortable environment for kids to practice their reading aloud without anything or anybody to judge or correct them,”

  • Airmen provide mobility expertise during RED FLAG-Alaska

    Over the course of 12 days in October with temperatures dropping below freezing in the “Last Frontier” Airmen from the 621stContingency Response Wing provided rapid global mobility expertise during RED FLAG-Alaska 17-1. The 621st CRW Airmen worked three different locations throughout Alaska assuring

  • Sitka CDC hosts Transportation Parade

    Members and staff of the Sitka Child Development Center hosted a Transportation Parade at the Sitka parking lot, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Oct. 14, 2016. October is transportation month at Sitka CDC. Floats in the parade highlight different types of transportation. All floats were