Fourth of July: Independence Day through the camera

Stryker squadron chaplain team is a cut above the rest

When Capt. Jeffery Ellis, squadron chaplain with 5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, found out he was going to Afghanistan, it was nothing unusual. That was until his squadron commander, Lt. Col. David Raugh, wanted him to do something out of

JBER civilians go the distance on two wheels

"It's shocking how happy I am," said Jan Johnson, a manpower specialist for the 673d Air Base Wing on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. "I expected to be healthier, but I didn't expect how happy it has made me."The secret to her happiness is simple, she said - she rides her bicycle to work. Every

K-9 explosives training

Alaska National Guard 1-207th Aviation supports command group in Iraq mission

Operations in Iraq depend on generals making decisions and troops executing them. Attending scheduled and unscheduled meetings, on and off base, is a part of the leadership's decision-making process and flights are needed to support this.Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers of B Company, 1st

Arctic Sappers train and build at Donnelly Training Area

The 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) spent most of the last month north of the Alaska Range testing the unit's ability to conduct full-spectrum engineer operations in an exercise dubbed Operation Tundra Wolf."This field exercise was truly a complex operation, an airborne operation, an air

Alaska National Guard ‘makes the cut’ on Discovery Channel

A cable show aimed to take viewers into the intense world of military elite forces training will highlight the Alaska Air National Guard's 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons.A camera crew with the Discovery Channel's "Surviving the Cut" series filmed the Guard members performing water rescue

U.S. troops beat the Russian, take home salmon in MWR trip

Pararescue Airmen train with Coast Guard

Coast Guardsmen in association with Alaska Air National Guard 212th Rescue Squadron pararescue Airmen performed a jump training exercise, June 23, at Joint Base-Elmendorf-Richardson's Malamute Drop Zone.The training was in anticipation of the upcoming July exercise at Barrow, Alaska, where

JBER police take aim at simulated active shooter

Security Forces Soldiers and Airmen at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson stressed their police skills, June 24, during a high-risk response train-the-trainer course, where the group's final exercise was an active-shooter scenario."Today is their final day for the high risk response train-the-trainer