• Lab Week 09

    National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, April 19-25, is a time to honor the more than 280,000 medical laboratory professionals across the nation who perform and interpret laboratory tests that save lives and keep people healthy.Pathologists and laboratory technologists along with technicians

  • New hunting regulation for military non-resident

    If people are feeling down because they just arrived to Alaska as their new permanent duty station and thought they had to wait a year or two to buy a hunting license at the resident rate, they don't have to worry any more.At the start of 2009, a new law approved by the Joint Alaska State

  • Practice makes perfect honor guard

    Members of the Elmendorf Air Force Base honor guard have gotten extra training the past few weeks. Airmen from the Air Force national honor guard came to Elmendorf April 13-23 to help train the base honor guard here. "We're here, basically, to come out and train the local base honor guard," said

  • Fast and efficient refueling

    November 12, 1921, was the first actual recorded fuel transfer from one aircraft to another. Although, it did require a man to get out of the aircraft he was in, and carry a can of fuel on his back so that he could then pour it into the counter plane. 90 years later aerial refueling has become

  • Elmendorf FY2008 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards

    Elmendorf Air Force Base wins Air Force level awardElmendorf has won the General Tomas D. White Natural Resources Conservation Award, and is now in the running for the Department of Defense level award.Each year the Secretary of Defense honors military installations, teams and individuals for

  • April 21 is Holocaust Remembrance Day

    Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation's annual commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust. This year's observance falls during the week of April 19 through April 26, with April 21 being the actual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah in Hebrew. The Holocaust was the

  • Brothers in arms

    4/8/2009 - CAMP TAJI, Iraq -- Growing up together in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Staff Sgt. Jeremy Moersch and Spc. Brandon Kosky played cops and robbers as boys, fighting the "bad guys" and putting them behind bars in an imaginary world. Now more than 15 years later, the two servicemembers, both