• 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

  • Winter weather keeps Airmen busy doing the math for aircraft safety

    Alaska's weather brings all kinds of perils to motorists. When the snow first came this year, road conditions put more than 80 cars in the ditches around Anchorage after just one day of snowfall.The risks are real - and even more so when they endanger military aircraft.That's why the Airfield

  • Birds of a feather 'mock-board' together

    The Arctic Warrior Airman's Advisory Council hosted a mock below-the-zone board Nov. 7 during their monthly meeting to educate new Airmen how boards work in the Air Force."This is what the Airman's Council is about, helping Airmen on base [because] our biggest focus is the younger Airmen," said