• Civilian Leaders Visit NE 08

    How do you get numerous high-powered Anchorage business people to abandon their jobs for half a day? Stick time in the F-15 simulator and a chance to stand next to and examine the F-22 Raptor usually works. The Northern Edge 08 Distinguished Visitor tour was May 7 here as 3rd Wing commander Brig.

  • Logistics Makes the World Go Round

    "If everything goes great, no one cares about logistics," said Lt. Col. Todd M. Dudinsky, the ALCOM J4 Plans and Policies Officer. "They care when stuff doesn't get here, or they can't get from one place to another, or if there aren't places to sleep or eat." Dudinsky quoted an old military saying,

  • Military visits the village of Chenega to discuss Northern Edge 2008

       Chenega is located on Evans Island in Prince William Sound, 104 air miles southeast of Anchorage. It is a federally-recognized tribe located in this mostly Alutiiq community that practices a subsistence and commercial fishing lifestyle. Chenega is classified as an isolated village with one

  • 4-25TH ID, 3rd ASOS provide CAS during NE08

    Shortly after coordinates were relayed to the pilots and infrared heat markers were deployed emitting a discreet optical beacon, F-16s passed over an unsuspecting convoy, deployed ordnance, and neutralized any possible threats. What appeared to be a malicious air raid was actually a training

  • ‘Plan My Move’ step-by-step tool to ease burden for military families

    It's almost peak moving season again for military families, and Defense Department leaders want families to know new resources are available to help. "Plan My Move," soft-launched in late summer, is the next generation of DOD's MilitaryHomefront tools to provide an integrated "e-moving" solution,

  • Air Force training records go digital, saving time, money

    Air Force officials are fielding two systems currently available through the Air Force Portal that make it easier to keep on-the-job training records up-to-date, saving time and money. Each Airman's Air Force Specialty Code will determine if their records will be maintained in one of these two

  • Arctic Warrior helps deployed base with BASH

    One of the Air Force's greatest airpower adversaries doesn't wear the uniform of another country; it wears feathers. Both deadly and expensive, aircraft accidents and mishaps caused by collisions with birds have cost the service approximately $35 million each year since 1985, according to Air Force