• Remembering our fallen firefighters

    Parents wake with a start at the sound of their smoke alarm screaming. Their bedroom is as black as night, and their senses are flooded with the thick, gagging smell of smoke. They make their way to the door and are able to feel the heat through it. Not a good sign.Concerned for their children, the

  • Aerospace ground equipment Airmen get base-specific

    Senior Airman Jordan Behounek, a 3rd Maintenance Squadron aircrew ground equipment technician, started up the A/M32A-60B Generator Set, but instead of hearing the building whine of a turbine engine winding up to full power, a tongue of flame shot  into the wintry air. People in the vicinity took off

  • USARAK Soldier expands Chilean partnership

    Sgt. 1st Class Ken Miller said he is always eager to learn. Recently, his eagerness to learn and become a better Soldier took him more than 8,000 miles away from home.Currently stationed at the Northern Warfare Training Center, Miller traveled to Rio Blanco, Portillo, Lose Andes and Santiago, Chile

  • New parent? The New Parent Support Program is here to help

    New babies bring new challenges, especially for parents who are having their first child, or have been isolated from familial support for one reason or another.Trying to deal with these challenges while balancing the responsibilities of a career or military service adds a whole new level of

  • Yup'ik Airman thrives on family, military traditions

    Growing up in Scammon Bay, a remote village in Alaska with a population of fewer than 600, the Yup'ik native wanted to see the world. Known as Angiiraq Apakaq to her elders and Janette Ulak to her friends, she grew up surrounded by a small community that thrived on hunting, fishing and picking

  • JBER pharmacy undergoes modernization

    The 673d Medical Group pharmacy is undergoing renovations to modernize facilities and improve customer service.The pharmacy is entering its third and final phase of construction, planned to be finished in early November.The new design expands the waiting area and improves the inpatient pharmacy, and

  • Obama becomes first U.S. president to set foot north of Arctic Circle

    President Barack Obama arrived in Alaska Monday.During his three-day trip, he visited Anchorage, Seward, Dillingham and Kotzebue, to discuss the threat of climate change to America's future.Obama visited Alaska locations to witness the impacts of climate change on this region - whose occupants are

  • National Preparedness Month

    Alaska has experienced more than 60 magnitude 6.0 and higher earthquakes in the past 10 years."We have a very different geographical layout. So a 6.0 in California is more severe than a 6.0 here because most of our earthquakes are remote," said Michael West, State Seismotologist with the Alaska

  • Preparation for floods

    Anywhere it rains, it can flood. In late September 2012, Anchorage had a flash flood, stranding cars and shutting down streets, which resulted in one fatality and 23 million dollars in damage.That was from rainfall alone, but other conditions can cause flooding.In Alaska, it is most likely to occur