• Use Web or smartphones to make even urgent medical care quicker

    You awoke with a scratchy throat, runny nose and aching head. You try to press on in your day, but quickly decide you need help. You figured there would be no appointments available for the same day in the clinic, and you didn't know you could email or go on-line to make one, so you went to the

  • Pacific Command senior enlisted leader visits JBER

    Command Master Chief Petty Officer Mark Rudes visited JBER to witness the base's capabilities and joint opportunities Aug. 14 to Aug. 16 2012."The reason I'm visiting as the U.S. Pacific Command senior enlisted leader is I've got great responsibility," Pacific Command senior enlisted leader from

  • Be prepared now for earthquakes and other emergencies

    Snap your fingers. There's a buildup of pressure - friction between the surfaces of your fingers. Then the pressure overcomes the friction, and is released in the form of vibrations - sound waves.That, in a microcosm, is an earthquake. In Alaska - especially along a line which runs along the

  • It's flu-shot season again

    Receiving the annual flu vaccine is the best way to prevent influenza. Influenza is a serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and death. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu and spread it to others. Over the past three decades, as many as 49,000 deaths can be attributed to the

  • JBER’s Back-to-School BASH

    JBER's Arctic Oasis Community Center had their annual 'Back to School Bash' August 17. The event allowed Alaska students an event the final weekend before school, and parents to gather information on various base facilities."This is the weekend before schools starts," said Michelle Carpenter,

  • New community center opens on JBER-Richardson

    The new Richardson Community Center opened for the JBER community Monday on the JBER-Richardson side of the installation."We saw at least 300 folks at the opening ceremony," said Rachel Hodgson, general manager for Aurora Military Housing. "It was hosted by Air Force Col. Brian Duffy, (673d Air Base

  • Holly Petraeus visits with JBER troops and families

    The U.S. military is overwhelmingly a young population. Often they are recently out of high school or college, in their first real job. And, flush with cash, service members can be an easy mark for scammers and unscrupulous businesspeople.Holly Petraeus, assistant director for Servicemember Affairs

  • Former US MiG pilot talks with 3rd Operations Group Airmen

    A two-ship of F-4 Phantom II fighters arced over the simmering Mojave desert, their four J79 engines rapidly converting JP-4 fuel into thundering noise and blinding speed. The lead pilot, scanning the scorched landscape for radar contacts, could just make out twin subsonic glints of light moving at

  • Alaska Reserve unit rebuilds tornado-ravaged school

    An Alaska Reserve unit has just returned from Tennessee where the task at hand was rebuilding a school that was destroyed by a tornado in 2011. Members of the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron installed lighting units, rewired the facility to meet code, hung sheet rock, and painted the interior of the