• Beat the bulge and Soar into Shape this year

    Have a plan to combat those holiday pounds and stay in shape this winter?If not, then consider what nearly 300 people last year did and sign up for Soar into Shape offered by Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Health and Wellness Center. The nine-week programs focus on healthy lifestyle choices

  • Norway soars into first RF-Alaska

    History was made during the most recent Red Flag-Alaska. The Royal Norwegian Air Force made its debut with 23 airmen and one C-130 Hercules from the 135th Air Wing of Gardermoen Air Station, Norway. Four times a year JBER and Eielson Air Force Base host RF-Alaska, a Pacific Air Forces-directed field

  • Intramural sports move indoors

    With the onset of cold weather, most intramural sports action has moved indoors at Buckner Physical Fitness Center.Intramural basketball games are played week nights at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. on two courts, while inner tube water polo matches are competed in Buckner's pool every Wednesday evening

  • Installation-wide recycling program becomes operational

    Leave forms. Scratch paper. Staff summary sheets. Sick call slips. Working for the Department of Defense - like most jobs - involves a lot of paper, and once it's used it goes into the waste bin or the shredder and quite often then to the landfill.Not so on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson anymore.

  • Reserve pilots, maintainers resume F-22 flight operations

    Reservists with the 477th Fighter Group here resumed F-22 flying operations during the unit's monthly unit training assembly or drill weekend following a four month stand-down. The first six jets took off at 9 a.m. Oct. 15. "Most of our pilots integrated into the flying schedule when our active duty

  • Reserve, Guard members kick-off Alaska's semi-pro basketball season

    The Alaska Quake basketball season will open Dec. 3 and two members of the Air Force Reserve and Army National Guard can be seen on the roster of Alaska's newest semi-professional basketball team. Master Sgt. Jonathon Orzechowski, an Air Force Reservist with the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron and SGT

  • Corps of Engineers completes F-22 facility

    An F-22 engine roar overhead was a reminder of the 372nd Training Squadron, Detachment 14, mission as the unit officially opened its new facility on the west side of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Sept. 26.The $6.2 million project, managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District and

  • Veteran DJs Alaskan-Hispanic radio show

    Dave Luera gives Anchorage "something new" every Sunday night.The human resources specialist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District is host of "Algo Nuevo" - Something New - on KSKA 91.1 FM.The music program on the public radio station plays cumbia, merengue, salsa and other styles of