• Surgical technicians’ backstage work recognized

    Imagine opening night: the tickets are sold and the seats are filled. Curtains open and the actors take their cue to take to the stage. The play begins and ends, and the crowd en masse rises in a standing ovation. A spotlight shines on the center stage as the actor basks in the applause. The play

  • Engineer brigade starts program to protect new Soldiers

    Statistically, the military population most at risk of being sexually assaulted is made up of females between the ages of 18 and 22, living in the barracks, within the first 90 days of reporting to their first duty station. In that time of transition, they are most vulnerable to predation.Across the

  • Aircraft Maintenance Squadron earns top honors

    The 3rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 3rd Maintenance Group, 3rd Wing, received the Air Force level 2011 Maintenance Effectiveness Award, Medium Category, during their promotion ceremony at the JBER-Elmendorf theater, Aug. 30."We've got a squadron on the base that's being recognized at the

  • Arctic Trailblazers train Down Under

    "Welcome to the jungle," Australian Army Sgt. 1st Class David Harding told a group of Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska's 2d Engineer Brigade at this tropical base in the country's northeastern state. Multicolored birds chirped overhead and trees swayed in the breeze as the Soldiers set off on patrol -

  • Arctic front storms through Alaska, leaves a mess

    All summer, the Lower 48 has been hit with nasty weather - droughts, fires, record-breaking heat, and recently, Hurricane Isaac.Alaska, after record snowfall last winter, enjoyed a cool, pleasant summer.Until Tuesday night.An arctic storm off the southern Bering Sea brought high winds up Turnagain

  • JBER turns landfill gas into energy

    During an especially cold December afternoon, a swirling formation of obsidian ravens hovered over a gray chimney, the structure pushing out hot air in the form of burned methane gas and oxygen combusted into water and carbon dioxide. Perhaps the black birds liked the heat. Perhaps they liked the

  • Hospital cooks train with professional chef

    Chef John Layton, an adjunct professor from the University of Alaska Anchorage visited JBER to continue teaching Airmen of the 673d Medical Support Squadron dining facility Aug. 23. His mission: to train inexperienced Airmen and provide culinary expertise in the kitchen."We had issues with