• Marrow Donor

    Almost any blood donation center stays pretty busy during a blood drive; plenty of people are willing to give forty-five minutes and a pint of blood in exchange for a couple of cookies, some juice and a feeling of having helped a stranger.But how many are willing to give up two weeks and have a

  • “Days of Remembrance” ceremony hits home

    "Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now, the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history, and you are part of it. ... For six centuries, there has been a Jewish Krakow. Think about that. By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened. Today

  • Traditional Alaska sport requires some training

    There are many outdoor activities that people can enjoy in Alaska. Some of these adventures can be dangerous if people do not have the proper training. In an effort to keep Arctic Warriors and their dependents safe, Raina Panarese, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Outdoor Adventure Program director

  • WMD unit conducts joint-training exercise in W. Va.

    Members of the Alaska National Guard's 103rd Civil Support Team - Weapons of Mass Destruction put their skills to the test and helped train another unit during a recent exercise in West Virginia.Five members of the team spent seven days at the Center for National Response, W.Va., in early April,

  • Rescue Airmen engage hostile forces to retrieve 'Fallen Angels'

    Airmen from Bagram Airfield's 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron performed a daring mountainside rescue here, April 23, after an Army helicopter crashed in a hostile Afghan valley.The Airmen, deployed from the 33rd RQS at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and the 212th RQS at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson,

  • Junior ROTC cadets go knees to the breeze

    Clad in combat fatigues and boots, the team faced a day of combat drills, convoy operations training, a small matter of being flipped over in a tumbling Humvee and, to top it all off, a jump from a 34-foot tower designed to break people of their natural fear of heights. These young men and women

  • Spartan signaleers get the message through

    Since the beginning of military history, getting the message through has been an essential part of military operations.Whether it was Paul Revere riding through New England yelling, "The British are coming!" or messenger pigeons delivering notes, communications have been a large part of the military