• December marks National Impaired Driving Prevention Month

    With everyone traveling home for the holidays, the month of December is one of the busiest on the nation's roadways. With the holidays approaching, the number for social events that include drinking increases along with DUIs and fatal drunk-driving crashes.President Barack Obama issued a

  • Slow down on winter roadways

    Security Forces have noticed a trend - an increased number of traffic accidents at intersections around Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.Motorists may feel the need to cut a yellow light too close for fear of not being able to stop in time at the intersection, but if they are obeying road conditions

  • Largest group of students graduates from PME Center

    The Joint-Base Elmendorf-Richardson Professional Military Education Center is responsible for developing excellence in future leaders throughout the Air Force.On Dec. 18th, the largest Airman Leadership School class the PME Center has ever taught will graduate.The PME Center has changed their

  • JBER hospital provides free child care

    (Editor's note: This program is now called ASYMCA Children's Waiting Room)When doctor appointments pop up, many parents might worry about where to leave their children. Teddy's Child Watch is a free service provided by the Armed Services YMCA of Alaska that offers a safe place for children to stay

  • Joint Commission names JBER hospital top peformer in 2 areas

    In late November, the Joint Commission officially recognized the 673d Medical Group with its "Gold Seal of Approval" as a top performer amongst more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals in the Surgical Care and Venous Thromboembolism categories."This recognition by the Joint Commission is for the efforts of

  • Canadian officer in deputy position at USARAK

    D-Day. The English Channel. M4 Sherman tanks of Canada's 1st Hussars Tank Regiment - enshrouded in inflatable flotation screens and motivated by duplex-drive propellers - sputtered toward the Juno Beach shoreline, fighting the pitching channel waters as much as they would soon grapple with the

  • Airmen create works of art with metals technology

    Off Japan's east coast, The Continental Plate and the Pacific Ocean Plate meet to form the Japan Trench.On March 11, 2011, the downward pressure from the Continental Plate on the Pacific plate suddenly released, causing it to surge more than 200 feet upward, triggering a magnitude 8.9 earthquake -

  • Ice safety story: "Who do I call when I slip and fall?"

    Water can change physical state depending on its surrounding temperature. Gas, liquid and solid; these are the three physical states water can occupy. Of these states, solid water has proven to be one of the most destructive and befuddling for military members at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson this