• AMMO RUN: Real-world mission great for training

    The scenic 293-mile route from JBER to Valdez passes glaciers, goes through valleys and over mountains. The views are breathtaking, but the roads can be dangerous. The twists and turns of the sometimes narrow roads leave little margin for error, especially when the sign on your cargo says

  • Security Forces Investigator helps bridge the gap

    Inside a law enforcement facility on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a phone rang. A man wearing a collared shirt and khaki pants answered the phone, "Investigations, may I help you?""Yes, I was told to contact OSI?" The voice on the phone said.Zach Gigeous, 673d Security Forces Squadron

  • JBER school partnerships star at awards luncheon

    The Star Awards luncheon is hosted by the Anchorage School Business Partnerships program annually to acknowledge the partnerships with the various agencies in the Anchorage community."The goal of the program is to improve citizenship and the educational experience of students through exposure to

  • Tying healing to recovery

    A local branch of a much larger group is promoting fly fishing as a way to help combat veterans recover from their physical and emotional wounds.Project Healing Waters is a nonprofit organization that provides fly-tying, fly-casting, and fishing instruction classes to wounded service members and

  • Don’t be a dealer to your teens

    It seems we can't get away from media reports of tragedy related to the abuse of prescription drugs. But it's not just the celebrities; the problem is closer to home than most people realize. According to an annual survey by the Partnership for a Drug Free America, one in five teens has abused

  • Sending them to Volehole-a

    Ah, the long sunny days are back - 55-degree afternoons, fishing, trees budding. The snow is gone - or mostly gone - and you can finally see the lawn again.The lawn you cared for last year, weeded, mowed.It's covered in squiggly lines of grass, and when you brush the grass off, it's a squiggly line

  • Raptor Banner Shoot tests combat capability

    F-22 pilots from the 302nd, 525th and 90th Fighter Squadrons tested their aim during a banner shoot here April 23-27. A banner shoot is best described as aerial target practice for the F-22. The pilots fire the F-22's 20 millimeter cannon at a banner, measuring 8 feet wide and 40 feet long, being

  • National Guard aviation support critical to Arctic Care

     Pulling off the nation's largest recurring joint medical readiness exercise, Operation Arctic Care, requires significant logistical support in remote areas of western Alaska where miles of wilderness separate villages in Alaska's last frontier.With no roads connecting villages, transporting

  • JBER merges official mail centers

    The Official Mail Distribution Center and the Official Mail Center are merging as part of the joint-basing process."The merger is scheduled for May 14," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Anya Rivera, mail clerk for the 673d Communications Squadron and native of San Antonio, Texas.Official mail is different