• Spartans summit North America’s highest mountain

    Driven by determination and trained in arctic survival, five paratroopers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, along with one Soldier from the Army's Northern Warfare Training Center and two Soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard, scaled the highest

  • Teddy’s Child Watch offers free care during appointments

    (Editor's note: This program is now called ASYMCA Children's Waiting Room)A pregnant military wife drives up and pulls into a expectant-mother parking space. Sweat beads on her forehead; she's 15 minutes behind, due to a late babysitter.As she walks up to the check-in desk, apologies roll off her

  • Weapons Airmen keep F-22s in the fight

    June 21 was this year's summer solstice in Anchorage - the longest day of the year when 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. share the same amount of sunlight and potentially a similar number of people cooking on their backyard grill. In contrast, Dec. 21 is the city's traditional winter solstice, when even those

  • 2014 Hero Games

    Heroes gathered beneath cloudy skies that threatened rain to compete on the longest day of the year. Nervous tension crept through the air as teams sized each other up and stared the others down. The stage was set and spectators lined the road. Service members answered the call Saturday on 4th

  • Nepalese Army Soldiers attend WLC at JBER

    Scores of junior-enlisted leaders enter the Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Brevard Noncommissioned Officer Academy to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for training and leading Soldiers. What they may not expect is to share a classroom with soldiers from partnering nations from around the

  • JBER WIC clinic to move from hospital to Arctic Oasis

    The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson office for the Women, Infants, and Children program, which currently supports approximately 1,600 service members on JBER, will close June 27 to move to a new office location.Currently on the first floor of the JBER hospital, WIC will relocate to the second floor

  • Fighting prejudice with a passion

    An equal opportunity specialist, a sexual assault response coordinator and a deputy inspector general walk into a base social event. What sounds like the beginning of a joke takes a sudden, very different turn. The event, a burger burn and fundraiser for an Airman injured in an accident, comes to a

  • Gen. Carlisle visits JBER

    Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle, Pacific Air Forces commander, visited Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 18, 2014. During Carlisle's time at JBER, he spoke to Airmen about challenges the Air Force is facing and how the military is finding ways to overcome them. "This is going to be a tough

  • 176th Wing provides air component command during JFEX

    The office bustled with olive green jumpsuits, the smell of pizza, and a dozen conversations dropping terms such as "sorties" and "objective." At the white board near a high table covered in maps, a 6-foot-plus commander in a flight suit bearing the 144th Airlift Squadron patch scribbled information