• JBER personnel compete in Slush Cup

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson personnel and families participate in the Slush Cup at the Hillberg Ski Area, March 19, 2017. The Slush Cup is an annual event where skiers and snowboarders try to make it across a slush pond without falling.

  • JBER's own finishes Iditarod

    Rick Casillo, Battle Dogs founder and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race veteran, finishes in 28th place at 9 days, 11 hours, 56 minutes, 40 seconds in Nome, Alaska, March 15, 2017. Casillo has been racing since 2004 and in 2012, he and his wife, Air Force Lt. Col. Jennifer Casillo, Alaska Air National

  • CSAF Statement on Wingman Conduct

    People are the foundation of our Air Force. Our mutual support for each other is based on dignity, respect and trust ... a Wingman culture. As Wingmen we must continuously demonstrate courage and strength of character to do and say the right things, at the right times, to protect each other ...

  • AFSA mentors Airmen, develops relationships

    On March 10, the United Service Organization building nestled in the middle of the Air Force dormitories found itself covered in several feet of snow in the bitter Alaska winter. Inside was an oasis from the cold – and it smelled like bacon.The Air Force Sergeant’s Association chapter on Joint Base

  • Sending a dependent to school? You could get free travel

    The Air Force offers free airfare for spouses and dependents attending college in the Lower 48 through the Student Dependent Travel.The spring college semester ends in May for most colleges, which means now is the time to file for student dependent travel.“If someone has command-sponsored dependents

  • Buckner gym hosts intramural basketball championship

    Soldiers compete in the intramural basketball championship at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Buckner Physical Fitness Center, Alaska, March 11, 2017. Soldiers from Alpha Company, 6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, took first

  • JBER celebrates 75 years of Air Force Aid

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson continues the 75-year old Air Force Aid Society tradition of Airmen helping Airmen and educating America’s future leaders.

  • UAA Cadet Shadows 525 Maintenance Officer

    A University of Anchorage Alaska ROTC cadet got a day-in-the-life experience as a Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson maintenance officer March 1, 2017. UAA cadet William Bryce Carpenter shadowed Air Force 1st Lt. Jonathan Quinlan, assistant officer in charge of the 525th Aircraft Maintenance Unit, to

  • 773d LRS vehicle operators accelerate the mission

    When an F-22 Raptor went down in unpopulated Alaska territory in November 2010, Soldiers and Airmen from the newly formed Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson amassed, and in an almost instantaneous assault, ventured into the white void to secure the downed aircraft and pilot.Vehicle operators of the