• JBER Airman graduates Army NCO Academy’s Warrior Leader Course

    In the Air Force, part of earning the rank of staff sergeant is attending Airman Leadership School, which includes classroom instruction, uniform inspections and practical knowledge on how to lead as a non-commissioned officer. In the Army, before Soldiers become NCOs, they go back to the basics by

  • Medical group sharpens patient evacuation skills during exercise

    In 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake ravaged Southcentral Alaska. Streets and buildings were ripped apart, tsunamis devastated towns and the need for medical services was dire. Fifty years later, the state of Alaska hosted exercise Alaska Shield 2014 from March 27 to April 3. Federal, state and local

  • Buckner Fitness Center hosts annual Dirty Shoe Run

    Military members and their families participated in the Dirty Shoe Run on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 1. The Dirty Shoe Run is a 5K race during the transition from winter to spring when the ice and snow begin to melt. More than 25 military members and their families participated

  • Girl Scouts help first responders train during Alaska Shield

    Members of Girl Scout Troop 285 participated in a mock disaster drill at The Red Dragon in conjunction with Alaska Shield 14 here March 29, 2014.The drill was done in support of civil disaster emergency response training and included members of the Cordova Volunteer Fire Department and soldiers from

  • Alaska patient evacuation on the wings of the U.S. Air Force

    U.S. Air Force staff setup a Disaster Aeromedical Staging Facility in Hangar 1 to simulate the treatment and evacuation of patients sent to them from Alaska's hospitals in a disaster situation here, March 31, 2014 as part of the state wide Alaska Shield exercise."If there is a disaster and the state

  • Volunteer pilots, photographers aid Alaska Shield disaster exercise

    Civil Air Patrol volunteers help ensure Alaska's energy assets are safe and secure during natural disasters by taking pictures and downloading them to federal authorities for analysis.On March 29, 2014, one such flight took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to inspect energy platforms as part

  • Frozen dangers demand sharpened skillset

    The Valdez Fire Department participated in Alaska Shield 14 by conducting a glacier rescue scenario here March 30, 2014. Alaska Shield 14 is an exercise that involves federal, state, local and military designed to test response and coordination efforts during a disaster and is modeled after the 1964

  • Working together to prepare for the worst

    As part of Alaska Shield 14, volunteers were stranded in frigid water simulating victims of a Tsunami here, March 29, 2014. This was a planned event to test disaster response by the U.S. Coast Guard and Army National Guard.The collaboration of these two groups during the exercise made the day