• 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

  • 673d SFS participates in Pumpkin Patrol

    Members of the 673d SFS participated in Pumpkin Patrol, Oct. 31, 2016. Pumpkin Patrol is an annual event which provides an increased police presence throughout base housing – affording candy enthusiasts a secure environment to trick-or-treat.

  • JBER conducts exercise Polar Force 17-1

    Exercise Polar Force 17-1 tests the base's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for a wartime mission and to employ forces and weapons systems.

  • JBER provides immunizations during Alaska Flu season

    Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is a contagious virus that spreads around the United States annually, but usually peaks between October and May. It is projected that Alaska’s flu season will spike between January and April.Because the vaccine loses effectiveness after a few months, the JBER