• Engineers beat out maintenance in championship

    Engineer Airmen from the 773rd Civil Engineer Squadron forged an early lead, and then held on to outlast the 3rd Maintenance Squadron, 66-59, in the championship game of JBER-Elmendorf's intramural basketball championship Monday night at the Fitness center.Corey Ballew controlled the opening tipoff

  • New JBER Fisher House hosts first guests

    Senior Airman Joshua Crawford and his wife, Rachael, were the first guests to stay at the Alaska Fisher House on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson until they were finally able to take their newborn girl, Devi, back home to Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Feb. 2. While in Fairbanks, the Crawford

  • Paratroopers of 725th BSB sustain Spartan Brigade in Afghanistan

    The paratroopers of the 725th Brigade Support Battalion in Afghanistan are keeping the Soldiers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division supplied while facing critical deadlines, harsh terrain and hostile territory, said 725th BSB Commander, Lt. Col. Brad Hinson.Hinson

  • FET team trains for tough mission

    "To boldly go where no man has gone before" could be a mission statement for a group of paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Task Force Spartan.Twenty-five female Soldiers from the Alaska-based brigade are assigned to Female Engagement Teams, with the

  • 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