• 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

  • Joint base rapidly becoming reality for Elmendorf, Richardson

    Years of hard work and planning are beginning to pay big dividends for teams of workers making Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson a reality. With functional working groups for every major moving part of the process and a 29-member "Enterprise" team detailed to work joint basing issues, the new

  • Why You Are Here

    "Why are you here?" bellowed the Military Training Instructor to one of the "rainbows" standing in the rag-tag formation in the parking lot outside the 3309th Basic Training Military Unit. The young man answered "I needed a job, sir!" The MTI quickly darted to another individual and hollered the

  • Eggstravaganza 2009

    What do you get when you mix 15,000 eggs with an abundance amount of kids? One huge chaotic Easter egg hunt. On April 11 children were everywhere for this year's Eggstravaganza here at Hangar 5. Inside, thousands of eggs were scattered about everywhere in the opened space about the size a football

  • Moving Beyond the F-22

    Originally printed in the Washington Post, 13 April 09 additionThe debate over whether to continue production of the F-22 Raptor has been one of the most politically charged and controversial budget issues in recent memory, spawning lobbying efforts that include contractor-sponsored newspaper ads

  • A Fed Bear is a Dead Bear

    It's that time of year again when the bears, both brown and black, are waking up and scrounging for food after a long winter's hibernation. Being the one who provides food to the bear, whether intentional, or unintentional, like not securing trash or putting away bird feeders, could cost $325 in

  • Sen. Begich Plans Trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan

    As part of his responsibilities to Alaska's troops and service on the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today said that he soon will visit Afghanistan, Pakistan and Qatar for briefings by military commanders, local officials and to meet with Alaska troops deployed in the