• SPARTAN PARATROOPERS TRAIN WITH EXPLOSIVES

    A two-hour road march finished with a bang as Soldiers conducted hands-on breaching and shaped-charge explosives training Aug. 28, at JBER's live-fire breach-range facility.Soldiers with A Company, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, turned their classroom learning into real, hands-on experience

  • Remembering our fallen firefighters

    Parents wake with a start at the sound of their smoke alarm screaming. The view of their bedroom is as black as night, and their senses are flooded with the thick, gagging smell of smoke. Feeling around, they make their way to the door and are able to feel the heat through it. Not a good sign.

  • Election time: So what exactly can military members do?

    As the clock ticks down to election day, some military members may have questions to what they can or cannot do in the arena of political activities. The things military members can and cannot do are outlined in Army Regulation 600-20 and Air Force Instruction 52-902.One thing everyone has a right

  • Alaska Reserve F-22 unit reaches FOC

    Speaking to members of the 477th Fighter Group during Sunday of the Unit Training Assembly weekend, Col. Bryan Radliff, 477th FG commander announced that the group had become fully operational capable. "Fully operation capable means that we are ready and able to execute our wartime tasking," said

  • Surgical technicians’ backstage work recognized

    Imagine opening night: the tickets are sold and the seats are filled. Curtains open and the actors take their cue to take to the stage. The play begins and ends, and the crowd en masse rises in a standing ovation. A spotlight shines on the center stage as the actor basks in the applause. The play

  • Engineer brigade starts program to protect new Soldiers

    Statistically, the military population most at risk of being sexually assaulted is made up of females between the ages of 18 and 22, living in the barracks, within the first 90 days of reporting to their first duty station. In that time of transition, they are most vulnerable to predation.Across the

  • Arctic Trailblazers train Down Under

    "Welcome to the jungle," Australian Army Sgt. 1st Class David Harding told a group of Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska's 2d Engineer Brigade at this tropical base in the country's northeastern state. Multicolored birds chirped overhead and trees swayed in the breeze as the Soldiers set off on patrol -

  • Arctic front storms through Alaska, leaves a mess

    All summer, the Lower 48 has been hit with nasty weather - droughts, fires, record-breaking heat, and recently, Hurricane Isaac.Alaska, after record snowfall last winter, enjoyed a cool, pleasant summer.Until Tuesday night.An arctic storm off the southern Bering Sea brought high winds up Turnagain

  • JBER turns landfill gas into energy

    During an especially cold December afternoon, a swirling formation of obsidian ravens hovered over a gray chimney, the structure pushing out hot air in the form of burned methane gas and oxygen combusted into water and carbon dioxide. Perhaps the black birds liked the heat. Perhaps they liked the