• Military Child Education Program assists children education concerns

    In an effort to assist military children with the continual changing of duty stations and deployments, Elmendorf officials established a program to act as the conduit between the schools and military members.The Military Child Education Program provides servicemembers and their families with

  • Red Flag-Alaska force exercise

    Red Flag-Alaska provides a unique experience for participants of the field training exercise to practice a simulated-combat environment. Members of United Kingdom's Royal Air Force were invited to participate in Red Flag-Alaska 09-3 at Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force bases to train over the Pacific

  • North to become PACAF commander

    The Pacific Air Forces will be led by a new commander Aug. 19. Lt. Gen. Gary L. North will assume command of the Pacific Air Forces from Gen. Howie Chandler during a ceremony at Hickam AFB, Hawaii. The Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed his promotion to general and appointment as the next

  • Soldiers, children given time to bond

     Eleven Fort Richardson Soldiers and 11 of their children took part in the first Bristol Bay American Heroes Fishing Derby here Aug. 6-10. The Soldiers and their children spent four days in King Salmon getting the opportunities to go sightseeing for bear and spending the days out on the water

  • Reservists integrate with active duty to support TSP mission

    Reservists from the 302nd Fighter Squadron are assigned with the 525th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here to support the U.S. Pacific Command commander's Theater Security Package program in the Asia-Pacific region. Both the 302nd FS and the 525th EFS are deployed from Elmendorf Air Force Base,

  • JBER: 3rd CS, 59th Signal Battalion prepare for transition

    The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson stand-up is rapidly approaching and with it the merger of many support functions. Air Force communication and Army signal organizations are laying the framework for seamless support to their Army and Air Force customers during this transition. The 3rd

  • Airmen prep school for new year

    Fifty-one Airmen and Air Force dependents from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, helped paint 14 class rooms at Machanano Elementary School Aug. 1 to prepare for the upcoming school year. "We are extremely short on support staff," said Robert Malay, Machanano Elementary School principal. "We only have

  • Fabrication flight integrates to support TSP, CBP aircraft

    Airmen assigned to the 36th Maintenance Squadron's Fabrication Flight are a mixture of permanent party and deployed Airmen supporting the U.S. Pacific Command Theater Security Package deployments and Continuous Bomber Presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The flight is composed of Airmen who work in