Sea kayaking

The Eagle River Bear Paw Festival

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