• Air Force’s youngest B-52 turns 50 this year

    Editor's note: This article is a first in a series leading up to the JBER Open House July 28 and 29. A Global Strike Command B-52 Stratofortress is scheduled to perform a flyover during the Open House. Additionally, the Open House will include demonstrations by The Air Force Thunderbirds, the Army

  • JBER AIRMEN CLEAR THE DANGER ZONE

    The explosive ordnance disposal team tried and tried to make it out to the remote island, but every time they were prepared for the trip, their flight was cancelled due to weather. After many tries, they finally got out to the island - but the trip was cut short. The team only had time to dispose of

  • JBER Airmen provide dignified-transfer support

    Airmen from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson provided a dignified transfer Thursday of a transfer case containing personal effects and possible human remains from an aircraft wreckage site on Colony Glacier.The wreckage partially surfaced from the glacier and was spotted June 10 by an Alaska Army

  • Executive Observer Program builds international partnerships

    Fourteen senior air power leaders from the global community joined Pacific Air Forces leaders for the premier multi-national large force employment exercise while building partnerships June 15.The hosts of this year's Red Flag-Alaska Executive Observer Program were Gen. Gary North, commander Pacific

  • Airman’s restored ride brings a bit of Britain to JBER

    Among automotive enthusiasts' 600-plus horsepower pony cars and hulking SUVs decked out with blingtastic chrome 22-inch rims, Tech. Sgt. Danny Damons' 1966 Ford Cortina Super might seem rather pedestrian by comparison.But upon closer inspection of the small green coupe, a not-insignificant

  • AIRMAN RANGER RETIRES AFTER 41YEARS

    Forty one years, 167 temporary duty assignments, 22 base assignments, six deployments and three wars later, Air Force Col. George W. Hays, director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, HQ Alaskan Command, retires from active duty service July 1 as the longest-serving colonel in

  • German Air Force gains compatibility in Alaska

    In 2007, then 13th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Loyd Utterback said, "(Red Flag-Alaska) allows us to exchange tactics, techniques and procedures and improve interoperability."Today, many of the same sentiments are echoed by military leaders."Although we are flying alongside coalition forces on a