• Heavy weapons paratroopers conduct machine gun live-fire training

    Paratroopers assigned to Dog Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and Delaware Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, conduct machine gun live-fire training at Grezelka

  • Heads-up! March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

    March is Brain Injury Awareness Month and at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, personnel from the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at the JBER hospital will be visiting various locations to increase awareness of TBIs, ensuring people know the signs and symptoms, and know how and where to get help. A TBI

  • What to do during Spring Break?

    In a couple of weeks, children will take a one-week break from school. Students from kindergarten to high school will officially have spring break March 13 -17.   The JBER youth centers will provide a wide variety of activities for children to get involved in. The Kennecott and Two Rivers Youth

  • Weapons Airmen prep jets for combat

    Weapons Airmen flew to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to support 15 Eagles from the 67th Fighter Squadron for this year’s iteration of Cope North. The exercise includes a total of 22 flying units comprised of members from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force, U.S. Navy, Air

  • PACAF, U.S. Navy Conduct Joint Interoperability Training

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- A four-member team from the 613th Air Operations Center here, joined the crew of the USS Carl Vinson as it was underway transiting the U.S. Pacific Command’s area of responsibility.The team, led by Col. Doug Rice, 613th AOC Chief of Combat Plans Division,

  • ASYMCA hosts 40th Annual Salute to the Military

    The ASYMCA hosted the 40th Annual Salute to the Military at the Dena'ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska. Since the Navy League’s conception of the ASYMCA in 1977, the program has annually honored all branches of service and has become the longest-running annual event hosted by a non-profit organization.

  • Frigid Brass play and teach at Orion

    The 9th Army Band group ‘Frigid Brass’ performed for the children of Orion Elementary School at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 21, 2017. ‘Frigid Brass’ performed many different genres of music and taught the children the first steps in playing each instrument to spark an interest in

  • Iron Dog races though JBER

    Snowmobile racers high-five military families while riding through trails at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, during the Iron Dog race Feb. 18, 2017. Iron dog is a long-distance snowmobile race that covers over 2000 miles in Alaska. The trail stretches from Big Lake to Nome, and finishes in