• Keeping the Eyes of the Eagle sharp

    On the night of Oct. 4, 1958, 111 passengers boarded a Pan Am Boeing 707 at New York's Idlewild Airport for a non-stop 8 hours and 41 minutes flight to Paris' Le Bourget Airport. The journey ushered in the jet age for the United States and made the world a seemingly smaller place.Nearly 34 years

  • 725th BSB adds two companies

    The 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, increased its combat power by formally adding two additional companies to its ranks during a patch ceremony March 17 at the Alaska National Guard Headquarters Building at Joint Base

  • Music Man: Commander rekindles old passion for bassoon music

    Creativity can be found in even the most regimented of environments. In the world of music, a musician must first learn the complexities of the language before being able to speak with fluent passion. The same can be said of flying helicopters for the Air Force.How is it these two different concepts

  • JBER command and control units consolidate

    Two Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson units merged recently to increase efficiency, reduce manpower redundancies and improve the installation's ability to meet command and control requirements.The 673d Air Base Wing Command Post and 732nd Air Mobility Control Center officially combined for initial

  • Thousands across the state gear up for Alaska Shield 2014

    In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1964 9.2-magnitude Great Alaska Earthquake, the State of Alaska will host Alaska Shield 2014 from March 27 to April 3. Federal, state and local authorities will join together to test interagency response in a natural disaster scenario. Northern

  • Air Force defeats Army 5-4 in JBER’s first inter-service hockey game

    Jacques Lamoureux scored a late goal to lift the Air Force to victory in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's first Army vs. Air Force hockey game March 15.A capacity crowd, hosted by the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club, filled the Wells Fargo Sports Complex on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus to