• Times and faces may change, but the standards don't

    According to the Air Force Basic Military Training website, approximately 35,000 new enlisted Airmen come into the Air Force each year.They replace those who are retiring or separating, taking with them their skills and experience and leaving a void.The task of filling that void of professionalism

  • AFTER 25 YEARS, PARARESCUEMAN STILL FEELS A CALLING TO SERVE

    To look at him, you wouldn't know he was a decorated combat veteran or that he had just retired after serving 25 years of his military career in the rescue community.At a cursory observation, he could be anybody.Senior Master Sgt. Doug Widener, a pararescueman, or PJ, who retired from the 212th

  • Force Support Squadron takes Lemay award

    The 673d Air Base Wing Force Support Squadron earned the Air Force Curtis E. LeMay award for best large-installation-level FSS of the year in the Air Force for 2014.The award recognizes FSS leadership, customer service, support and quality-of-life programs provided to joint military members and

  • JBER observes Holocaust Remembrance Day

    In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, service members reflected on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps during a commemoration ceremony held at the Talkeetna Theater on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson April 24.The U.S. Congress established the Days of

  • 477th AMXS Welcomes new commander

    Maj. Jessica Pisano became the 477th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander during a change of command ceremony here on JBER, April 12.Pisano accepted the reins of leadership from Lt. Col. Timothy Pemberton who will move on to be the deputy chief of maintenance here in the 477th Fighter

  • Troops conduct biannual 'ammo barge' mission

    Twice a year, millions of pounds of explosives and ammunition travel north through Pacific waters in a biannual migration designed to resupply military installations across Alaska."The ammo barge" is the casual term for it; but there is nothing lackadaisical about the attitudes of the service

  • SFC Ron Albert: Officially the safest NCO in USARAK

    Sgt. 1st Class Ron Albert is the 2014 winner of the Director of Army Safety Risk Management Award.A member of U.S. Army Alaska's 2d Engineer Brigade, Albert recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan with his brigade headquarters.That is where he showed his safety mettle as a construction

  • Air Force family adapts through deployments, PCS moves

    There are roughly 1.9 million U.S. military children worldwide who face unique challenges while their parents work to keep the mission going. Some were born into the military; some had to adapt to the life. They all silently live with their parents' decision to serve.The Andres family faces the same