• JROTC cadets learn to surmount fear, limits at JBER towers

    In a single week, Junior ROTC cadets from Bartlett and Colony high schools encountered more adventure than most adults will experience in a lifetime. During last week's JROTC Cadet Leadership Challenge summer camp at JBER, cadets leapt out of the 34-foot jump tower, traversed the 35-foot rappel

  • Spartan families celebrate midpoint of Afghanistan deployment

    Friends and families of the six battalions that compose the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division gathered at Cottonwood Park May 31 to mark the halfway point of their loved ones' Afghanistan deployment. Coordinated by a combination of the brigade's rear detachment

  • CITIZEN AIRMEN DEPLOY TO AFGHANISTAN

    More than 180 citizen-Airmen of the Alaska Air National Guard's 176th Wing have begun deploying for Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.The deployment marks the wing's single largest deployment of personnel since 2003. It will be the wing's second large-scale deployment from JBER

  • Anchorage remembers heroes

    Wearing everything from service caps adorned with badges and unit patches from the past and historic uniforms, veterans from as far back as World War II gathered at the Delaney Strip Park in downtown Anchorage Monday for the Memorial Day Remembrance Service. Many of the elderly gentlemen struggle

  • 6 Soldiers make their way up North America's highest peak

    Crowning a vast glacier and surrounded by other peaks of impressive magnitude rises Mount McKinley, also known as Denali (a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "The High One").It stands as the tallest peak in North America and third highest in the world. The mountain has a history of claiming the lives

  • COMBAT FISHING

    At 4 a.m. on a Thursday, the sun was rising above the mountains as fire trucks lined the streets next to the fishing docks here May 24. A mother and her daughter carrying signs of welcome positioned themselves behind the trucks and waited eagerly. They didn't have to wait long; soon two shuttle

  • A magic homecoming

    Turning eight years old can be a big milestone. Add a magician, face painting and plenty of presents, and any 8-year-old boy would be happy. But for Cole Sandoval, this birthday party at the Arctic Oasis on JBER was going to have a big surprise. Unbeknownst to Cole, the magician was going to make

  • Arctic Sappers clear the line with high explosives

    One rocket, 1,700 pounds of C-4 on a string, a platoon of Sappers, Army combat engineers, and a firing pin could be the key to clearing a pathway for the mission during Operation Tundra Wolf II at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex May 10. "Conducting home-station training at the JPARC allows us

  • Garrett takes command of U.S. Army Alaska

    Maj. Gen. Michael Garrett became the 36th commander of U.S. Army Alaska in a change-of-command ceremony May 17 at Pershing Field. He comes to Alaska from Fort Bragg, N.C., where he was chief of staff, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg. Garrett replaces Maj. Gen. Raymond Palumbo, who has been the