• Dental lab technicians create smiles one tooth at a time

    When service members seek medical attention for broken teeth or dental damage prevention, the first thing that comes to their mind is to see a dentist. The 673d Dental Squadron provides comprehensive dental care for active duty personnel. Once a patient is seen, the dentist will provide the dental

  • 90th FS Pilots, equipment tested at Tyndall AFB

    Air Force Capt. William Albert could feel the missile bay door opening on his F-22 Raptor as the Air Intercept Missile-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile was launched outside, the rocket motor then engaged, giving the missile speed and shooting it out into the sky near Tyndall Air Force

  • ROTC cadets train at JBER, prepare to lead Soldiers

    The mission was supposed to be simple: occupy a position overlooking an enemy supply route, wait for the insurgent resupply patrol to pass, and kill or capture them all.That was the order University of Alaska Fairbanks Army ROTC Cadet Laramie Yancey received. Everything Yancey learned in the past

  • Civilian receives Air Force level award

    A 673d Civil Engineer Squadron section chief recently earned the Air Force Outstanding Civil Engineer Manager of the Year award for 2013. Sean Grady, a retired Air Force master sergeant of 20 years and native of Aiea, Hawaii, received the award for going above and beyond to ensure missions were

  • Preventing sexual violence

    Alaska - Nearly one in every five women, or 20 million, have been raped in their lifetime in the U.S. Approximately one in 71 men, or almost 1.6 million, have been raped during their life. Roughly 33.5 percent of multiracial women have been raped. Around 27 percent of American Indian and Alaska

  • Good News Clubs help resiliency, spiritual strength of military families

    Georgene Bandara has always had a passion for God, country and caring for children. She is the coordinator for Good News Clubs at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, an after-school program taking place at some of the elementary schools on base.The clubs include a Bible lesson, songs, Scripture

  • JBER teen named Air Force Military Child of the Year

    "Hey Gage, come downstairs; you're in trouble," Tobias Adam's voice rang out through the family home."Oh, darn," his 17-year-old son, Gage Dabin, thought. "What did I do now?"While bracing himself for the worst, Dabin was instead pleasantly surprised when his parents told him he had won the Air

  • In memory of the fallen: TACPs conduct 24-hour relay

    Members of the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron's Tactical Air Control Party participated in the annual memorial 24-hour Challenge Run from March 27 and 28 at the Alaska Dome in Anchorage.The run, sponsored by the TACP Association, is a memorial to those who have died while serving, he said.It

  • Father and son paratroopers jump together

    They took to the sky together for the last time on the first day of spring. A sun-splashed sky lay ahead as the father and son ascended several thousand feet into the air, taking in the vista of the untouched wilderness and mountainous terrain of Alaska. They could see Mount McKinley to the north as