• Arctic conditions provide valuable lessons in Alaska exercise

    U.S. Alaskan Command has easily proven that Summer Soldiers or Sunshine Patriots do not exist in the U.S. military.More Than 1,500 U.S. military personnel braved the snowy and icy conditions, and temperatures that dipped well below zero to participate in the multi-service exercise last week. Arctic

  • 673d LRG enhances readiness with mobility exercise

    Twice each year, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, hosts Polar Force, a two-week exercise designed to test the base's ability to integrate, mobilize and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment.To bridge the gap between these exercises, the 673d Logistics Readiness Group conducts

  • Healthy Scoops for Healthy Troops

    In Fort Greely, Alaska, long before the sun rises over the mountains, Lance Cpl. Miguel Rojas, a food service specialist for Combat Logistics Regiment 25 has already begun his day accompanied by the other cooks participating in Arctic Edge 18.

  • Alaska Guardsmen conduct operations in frozen Beaufort Sea

    More than 50 Alaska National Guardsmen are supporting the U.S. Navy's Ice Exercise several hundred miles north of the Alaskan coastline. The training is linked to the Alaska National Guard's Arctic Eagle 2018, a statewide exercise involving national, state and local agencies designed to provide

  • Alaska National Guardsmen support Arctic Ocean Ice Exercise

    Alaska National Guardsmen support ICEX. To most people – even Alaskans who are accustomed to the cold – the North Pole might as well be the surface of the moon in terms of its remoteness and hostility to the prospects of human survival.

  • JBER recognizes Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month

    Each March, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson participates in Brain Injury Awareness Month by conducting an awareness campaign aimed at educating service members, families, retirees and civilian employees about the needs of people with traumatic brain injury.