• Tips for combating the wintertime blues

    While the Chugach peaks are cloaked in white and days more swiftly fade to black, moods more often become blue. With the two darkest months of the year approaching, low energy or depressed moods also known as “wintertime blues,” becomes more likely for residents of Anchorage and the Joint Base

  • Need more OCOLA? A 30-minute survey could make it happen

    From a single cart of groceries that can cost more than $500, to higher gas prices, living in the Last Frontier can quickly burn a hole in your wallet.Uniformed service members in Alaska have the opportunity to influence their Overseas Cost of Living Allowance and keep more of their hard-earned

  • Air Force proves mettle at first inter-service Alpha Warrior battle

    SELMA, Texas – A team of six Air Force men and women bested the Army and Navy to capture the first-ever Inter-Service Alpha Warrior Final Battle held at Retama Park on the outskirts of San Antonio Nov. 17. Capt. Mark Bishop of Air Mobility Command, Capt. Noah Palicia of Pacific Air Forces, Capt.

  • Airmen “Prove It” at Alpha Warrior final battle

    SELMA, Texas –Airmen from across the world competed in the second annual Alpha Warrior Final Battle, Friday, Nov. 16 at the Alpha Warrior Proving Grounds, Retama Park, Selma, Texas.  “Alpha Warrior brings a new way of getting fit, building teamwork and becoming the warfighters we need to be for

  • Rocks, paper, scissors: FOD

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson has several programs in place to ensure foreign objects debris are something in people’s heads and not in the engines.

  • JBER recipe for food-service success, ‘Joint Culinary Institute’

    Since the beginning of September, Airmen with the 673d Force Support Squadron and food-service Soldiers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, now have the opportunity to gain and build on additional skills through a program called the Joint Culinary Institute operated at the Gold Rush Inn.

  • JBER BASH program soars

    On Sept. 22, 1995, an E-3B Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System, call sign Yukla 27, crashed, killing all on board.

  • JBER, UAA combine efforts to help students

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the grand opening of the academic tutoring room at the Education Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 2, 2018.