• SERE instructors teach Airmen to survive, escape

    There are only approximately 400 Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists in the Air Force, and two of them reside at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.Air Force Staff Sgt. Greg Avey and Tech. Sgt. Reid Beveridge are SERE specialists and belong to JBER's 3rd Operations Support Squadron's

  • Keep your family’s home front safe during deployment

    During deployments, military families are usually more worried about their service members in harm's way than they are for themselves. However, civilian family members should take care to make sure that they are not needlessly advertising themselves as easy targets to those who would take advantage

  • Soldiers, Airmen throw free frames at annual Bowl-a-Thon

    The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce hosted its 14th Annual Bowl-a-Thon at the Center Bowl in Anchorage during Military Appreciation Week for the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson community.The Bowl-a-Thon lasted from 2:30 to 7 p.m. More than $20,000 is raised at the event annually to fund the Military

  • Singles get more opportunities on JBER

    As the military has moved toward joint basing to cut costs and increase interoperability, there have been some headaches and growing pains as personnel learn to adjust.There have also been some real triumphs. One of those on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson has been the BOSS program.Originally

  • Airmen of 3rd ASOS integral part of Task Force Spartan

    It was the middle of the afternoon on a hot day in Afghanistan. Soldiers were on patrol when they took small arms fire from multiple directions. After the smoke cleared and no casualties were reported, the Army ground commander decided to dismount and engage the hostiles while the gunners in the

  • Vikings span frozen Alaska waterways

    The setting couldn't be more bleak; averaging negative 20 degrees before the wind chill is factored in, the frozen and lifeless landscape spans in almost all directions.Sheets of ice creak and groan while a team of specially trained Soldiers dressed in sub-zero-rated arctic coveralls move across the

  • PRT-Khowst partners with Task Force Spartan

    Provincial reconstruction teams have become a mainstay of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan, where the units - composed of teams of specialized civilians and military members from across the armed services - bring unique, non-combat skills together to help local governments to continue building a

  • Remember: resilience is a process, not a trait

    Sometimes, life throws curveballs that can leave you lying in the dirt, wondering what just happened. You know you have to get back up and take another swing, but when you've just been metaphorically hit in the head, that's easier said than done. Fortunately, you've got teammates that will offer a