• Delayed reporting for Elmendorf members

    Elmendorf members are now on delayed reporting and should report to work by 8 a.m. today, March 23. The uniform of the day is the utility uniform. Personnel should contact their supervisors for more information. Elmendorf's airfield is still operational at this time. While ash fall from the Mount

  • Elmendorf members respond to volcano eruption

    Due to the recent Mount Redoubt eruption at 10:38 p.m. March 22, only essential personnel are to report to work at Elmendorf AFB today, March 23. Personnel should contact their supervisors for more information. Elmendorf is still open with operational runways at this time. The 3rd Medical Group and

  • Saving the Brave: Doctors' Day honors sacrifice of doctors

    Navy clinical psychologist Heidi Kraft learned her toughest lesson in Iraq. She wrote a moving memoir, "Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital," about her time serving and titled it after a line from the television show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one is that

  • ACTION LINE: RV storage lot rates increase

    Question: Why did the recent hike in the price of the RV parking increase 50 percent? Isn't there a law governing how much they can increase rent and aren't they required to give some notification to the renters? I understand that they use this money to cover expenses for other Morale, Welfare and

  • Air Force Assistance Fund drives on

    Elmendorf's Annual Air Force Assistance Fund drive began March 16. Col. Richard Walberg, 3rd Wing vice commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Gerard Cappello, 3rd Wing command chief master sergeant, made the first contributions in the installation's six-week charity drive, which runs through April

  • Deployed Elmendorf maintainer takes 11th Air Force's best CGO title

    A Maintenance officer deployed here from Elmendorf Air Force Base was recently named the 11th Air Force's Company Grade Officer of the Year. Capt. Mary Lent, 36th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron Aircraft Maintenance Unit officer in-charge, is deployed here from Elmendorf Air Force Base with a

  • Disposition of Personal Effects

    First Lt. Jamesina Stuppy, 3rd Mission Support Group, is authorized to make disposition of the personal effects of the late Staff Sgt.Timothy L. Bowles, 3rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, as stated in Air Force Instruction 34-244, Disposition of Personal Property. Any person or persons having claims

  • Tax filing deadline draws near

    When will we do the taxes? That seems to be the question most people find themselves asking around this time. Taxes can be stressful, or even annoying when there are other things people can be doing with their time. To some people it's just another check on their to-do list. Well, don't fret. There

  • Elmendorf officials mourn loss of Airman

    Elmendorf Air Force Base officials will hold a memorial service this week to honor an NCO killed at 12:30 a.m. March 15 supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Eastern Afghanistan.Staff Sgt. Timothy Bowles, 24, was killed when his vehicle was destroyed by an improvised explosive device while on a