• Nepalese Army Soldiers attend WLC at JBER

    Scores of junior-enlisted leaders enter the Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard Noncommissioned Officer Academy to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for training and leading Soldiers. What they may not expect is to share a classroom with soldiers from partnering nations from around the

  • JBER WIC clinic to move from hospital to Arctic Oasis

    The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson office for the Women, Infants, and Children program, which currently supports approximately 1,600 service members on JBER, will close June 27 to move to a new office location.Currently on the first floor of the JBER hospital, WIC will relocate to the second floor

  • Fighting prejudice with a passion

    An equal opportunity specialist, a sexual assault response coordinator and a deputy inspector general walk into a base social event. What sounds like the beginning of a joke takes a sudden, very different turn. The event, a burger burn and fundraiser for an Airman injured in an accident, comes to a

  • Gen. Carlisle visits JBER

    Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, Pacific Air Forces commander, visited Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 18, 2014. During Carlisle's time at JBER, he spoke to Airmen about challenges the Air Force is facing and how the military is finding ways to overcome them. "This is going to be a tough

  • 176th Wing provides air component command during JFEX

    The office bustled with olive green jumpsuits, the smell of pizza, and a dozen conversations dropping terms such as "sorties" and "objective." At the white board near a high table covered in maps, a 6-foot-plus commander in a flight suit bearing the 144th Airlift Squadron patch scribbled information

  • Brigade leans on Air Force, National Guard support

    More than 400 paratroopers and Airmen participated in a large-scale exercise at Fort Greely June 7 to Tuesday. The Joint Forcible Entry Exercise included an airborne jump and trained paratroopers to get on the ground quickly and efficiently.Spartan paratroopers with 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

  • 1 Geronimo Soldiers honor WWII legacy of 501st veterans

    Seventy years after the launch of the largest air- and seaborne operation in the history of warfare, paratroopers with the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson took part in a ceremony to commemorate the actions of one of its units

  • 673d FSS hosts annual JBER car and bike show

    The 673d Force Support Squadron hosts the seventh annual Military Appreciation Car and Bike Show on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Joint Military Mall.This year, the show will have vendors, bouncy houses, door prizes, food and other entertainment venues."We have had as many as 115 cars and

  • Denali cavalrymen take rite of passage during spur ride

    Paratroopers with the 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment, earned their "Order of the Spur" certificates as they tested endurance and knowledge in cavalry history during the squadron's spur ride May 28 and 29 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The event started in the early morning hours