• Spartan paratroopers graduate from Finnish cold-weather course

    Three U.S. Army Alaska Soldiers and five Marines completed the Finnish Army's Cold Weather Operations Basic Course near the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland Jan. 16."It is a course that mirrors our Cold Weather Leaders Course," said Sgt. 1st Class Shalim Guzman, a platoon sergeant with Delaware

  • Paratroopers train with Marines in California

    Paratroopers assigned to Able Company, 3rd Battalion (Airborne), 509th Infantry Regiment are training in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada range with Marines at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center.The month-long training rotation is affording approximately 100 Alaska-based

  • Staying safe, warm while ice fishing

    Fishing frozen lakes, streams and rivers can be a seasonal pastime around Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, but understanding how to be safe is key to having fun."The big thing about ice fishing is to make sure the ice is safe," said Royal Harrop, 673d Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation Center

  • Volunteer tax preparer shares experience

    Preparing and filing a tax return can be a daunting task for anyone, especially for new service members going through the process for the first time. Air Force Staff Sgt. Terry Shoup said he likes helping service members and their families by volunteering as a tax preparer. He enjoys seeing the

  • Canadian warrant officer recounts

    Royal Canadian Air Force Warrant Officer Shari Reiser, an aerospace control operator for the 611th Air Operations Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, remembers her first deployment like it happened yesterday."It didn't seem to be as real as it was," said Resier, then a combat operations

  • JBER to conduct active-shooter drill

    While carrying privately owned firearms on a federal installation is illegal, shootings still occur. From the notorious 1995 attack by William Kreutzer Jr. at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the Jan. 6 attack at the El Paso Veterans Affairs hospital at Fort Bliss, Texas, shooting incidents can and do

  • Airman finds fulfillment in weapons instruction

    Senior Airman Jamarcus Perry's average work day "at the office" includes teaching classrooms full of people about marksmanship, handling and issuing various weapons, and running a firing range at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.A first-term Airman with six years of service, serving as a Combat Arms

  • Finding time to run

    A lifelong runner, Air Force Capt. Allison Easterly, 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron Delta flight commander, has participated in several marathons and half-marathons since her first full marathon in 2006.In 2012, when she was 12 weeks pregnant, she participated in a half-marathon, and then ran

  • Remembering the dream

    Ignorance is a blindfold on the mind, but keeping an open mind allows love to overflow. In the past, prejudices, like segregation, cut society to the point of bloodshed and discrimination led to martyrs and more hateful feelings.Martin Luther King Jr. understood that and shared it with the