• Airborne brigade redeploys in numbers after 10-month Afghanistan deployment

    One might expect a fitness center to be empty just past midnight on a Thursday morning; but when the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, is returning from deployment, wives and children were more than happy to do whatever it took to see their loved ones again."We got here at

  • Discovery Channel documents “Mighty Plane” C-17 Globemaster III

    The show "Mighty Planes" took aim at a new plane in the C-17 Globemaster III, and the Discovery Channel was here to film the versatile cargo plane from Sept. 20 to Wednesday. "The whole show Mighty Planes is exactly what it is, it's planes that are 'mighty;' that are big," said Stephen Grant,

  • JBER HOME TO UNIQUE P38 Lightning

    Flying through a January sky in 1945, U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith was piloting a P-38G Lightning - one of the Air Force's best aircraft during World War II. The plane, equipped with two engines and relatively long wings, was a beautiful sight, and Nesmith worked hard to be in a

  • 3rd Wing focuses on Airmen safety, well-being, with Safety Day

    The 3rd Wing completed a Safety Day, Sept. 28, which allowed each unit to have personal training focused on safety and enhancing the Wingman concept.The stand down day is a quarterly event that gives Airmen in the wing an opportunity to refocus on these important issues. "It reinforces what it means

  • 703d AMXS Cleans Up

    Heavy Metal Knights of the 703d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron were hard at work outside the Boniface gate Thursday afternoon. Squadron members cleared 943 pounds of trash and debris from their Adopt-a-Path which runs from the Glenn Highway to DeBarr Road. The Knights clean the path once a month

  • JBER Airman takes ‘service before self’ to a new level

    There are several traits in leadership Airmen aspire to in hopes of one day becoming role models themselves. One such trait is the ability to live by example, while living a life that reflects all the core values emphasized by the Air Force. Not only is diligent work ethic sought after, but Airmen

  • Healthy relationship skills can prevent domestic violence

    The 2011 Alaska Victimization Survey results for Anchorage showed that more than 50 percent of adult women in the Municipality of Anchorage have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both, in their lifetime.More than 8 percent have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual

  • Alaska NORAD Region depends on U.S., Canadian binational cooperation

    Cold, determined and isolated atop a mountain in the middle of Alaska, a silent sentinel scans the skies. The men and women receiving the data from this lonely radar site of the Alaskan Radar System, though different in nationality, realize they belong to something bigger than themselves and their