• Pachyderm PCS: African elephant finds new home courtesy of Air Force

    As the sun crested over the foothills of San Andreas, Calif., and the compound's gate opened, she knew she was home. Maggie, the Alaska Zoo's only elephant, arrived at the Performing Animals Welfare Society's ARK 2000 Wildlife Sanctuary Nov. 2, exiting her crate some 15 hours after leaving

  • Volunteers help make city brighter

    Anchorage became a little brighter Monday night with a flip of a switch and the star at the top of Site Summit sparkled. For the 25th year, the City of Lights celebration encourages Anchorage residents and businesses to hang white lights and have them on during nighttime hours. It took more than 200

  • Bulldogs take on Raptors: 3rd Wing activates second F-22 squadron

    Who let the dogs out? Officials from the 3rd Wing did when they activated the 525th Fighter Squadron "Bulldogs" during a ceremony here that began at 5:25 p.m. Monday. The second active-duty F-22A Raptor squadron took its place in wing history nearly three months after the aircraft officially landed

  • OPERATION MAGGIE MIGRATION: 517th AS to fly elephant to California

    The U.S. Air Force will fly Maggie, a 25-year-old African elephant at the Alaska Zoo, on a C-17 cargo aircraft to her new home in California. Maggie is scheduled to fly out of Elmendorf Air Force Base to Travis AFB on Thursday, Nov. 1. Officials with the Alaska Zoo and the Performing Animals Welfare

  • AEF cycles to extend to six-month deployments

    With the war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan having such high demands on combat support capability, some Air Force career fields have had to extend their rotations from the traditional 120-days, 20-month battle rhythm to 179-days to support the Global War on Terrorism. Specifically, some of the

  • Pumpkins - Moose's feast

    Every Halloween, moose near housing detect a scent in the air that alerts them to the opportunity to add a little color in their diet, orange pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns. There must be something in pumpkins that is especially attractive for some moose because they throw caution to the wind and walk