• Aircraft with a cold shoulder

    If driving in snow is a hassle, imagine flying. Instead of every turn being a skidding accident waiting to happen, blocky wings couldn't get the right lift and flying straight would be an impossible task.While the roads and parking lots on base have snow plows clearing the way, global ground-support

  • Structural maintenance flight keeps JBER airworthy

    Airman Melissa Weaver, an aircraft structural maintenance apprentice with the Aircraft Structural Maintenance Flight, 3rd Maintenance Squadron, stepped into the small paint room clad from head to toe in a suit one might expect to find in a gas chamber.Once inside, she adjusted the nozzle on her

  • Mongolian NCO attends course with USARAK troops

    Throughout the years, more than four dozen foreign soldiers have attended Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard Noncommissioned Officer Academy. However this year, one graduate is the first of her kind."I am so thankful to the U.S. and Mongolian armies for allowing

  • 525th FS crew chiefs honored at ceremony

    Twenty-three F-22 Raptor crew chiefs from the 525th Maintenance Unit assumed the mantle of Dedicated Crew Chief during a DCC ceremony at the 525th Fighter Squadron headquarters on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Nov. 25.The ceremony recognizes the top F-22 maintainers on the installation, honors for

  • Road rage: winter snow stage

    Trudging through several inches of snow, struggling to find the keys in your pocket with gloves on, then spending 15 minutes turning a block of ice back into a car to get to work every morning ... that's just a taste of what below-freezing weather is like in Alaska.This time of year is not very

  • Light pillars: an optical illusion

    If you have driven around the base during hours of darkness, you may have noticed mysterious lights in the sky.The columns of light apparently beaming directly upwards are only visible during very cold weather."When I first saw them, I didn't know what they were," said Heather Mims, wife of Airman

  • Christmas Star

    For more than 50 years, the city of Anchorage has had the privilege of gazing upon the Christmas star every cold winter night.The star is lit the day after Thanksgiving every year in conjunction with Anchorage's City of Lights celebration and remains lit until the last musher of the Iditarod Sled

  • FSS rewards selfies

    In order to expose Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson personnel to Force Support Squadron services, as well as give back to the community, the 673d Force Support Squadron is hosting contest, during which they will give more away more than $1,600 in prizes."When we sell ads, the money earned goes to the

  • JBER first sergeants kick off Operation Warmheart

    The dental surgery she needed badly wasn't covered by TRICARE - and there was no way Sarah and her husband could scrape up the necessary cash. Desperate, her husband mentioned the problem to his first sergeant. By the end of the week, Sarah was home from surgery - thanks to emergency funds from

  • Cookie Crush brings cookies, volunteer opportunities

    On Nov. 17, a host of volunteer Soldiers, Airmen and spouses gathered at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson hospital kitchen to bake thousands of cookies en masse for single JBER service members."We made 6,200 cookies last night in four or five hours," said Casey Andrysiak. "This was possible