• Soldiers of 98th Maintenance Company mark deployment to Kuwait

    The 98th Maintenance Company hosted a deployment ceremony Monday at the Alaska National Guard Armory at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The company will deploy to Kuwait in February to assist in repairing equipment coming out of Iraq and going into the Army Supply System. The deployment is set for

  • Army chief of staff visits JBER Soldiers

    Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Raymond Odierno underscored Alaska's importance as one of the Army's premiere training locations during a Jan. 20 visit to U.S. Army Alaska headquarters.Odierno's visit to Alaska was part of an Asia-Pacific theater tour, his first overseas trip as Army chief of

  • Politics can be a hot-button topic, so be careful with words

    Anyone who has spent time in uniform knows there are limitations to a service member's freedoms. You're not free to wear body piercings, hats are required outdoors while in uniform, and you are, technically speaking, on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.There are also limitations on free speech

  • 17th CSSB supports Anchorage’s 50 Bikes for 50 Kids

    Soldiers from the 17th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion helped local children build their own bicycles Jan. 16 at the Anchorage Park and Recreation department's 50 Bikes for 50 Kids event.The Anchorage Parks and Recreation hosted the program on Martin Luther King Day at the Spenard Recreation

  • Course helps JBER get WILD about Alaska ecosystem

    Children may be amazed or terrified of wild animals that live in the wilderness of the Alaskan outdoors, but a little education can leave their parents a little more at ease. "My fondest memories as a young child in the backwoods of Pennsylvania were not watching cartoons and playing video games,

  • JBER’s phone operators continue legacy of service behind the switchboard

    Very few people find themselves as personally attached to their work as Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson telephone operator Doug Osborne did late one night in 2005 when he connected a call between a Soldier deployed to Iraq and his wife who was in labor with the couple's child.The emotional call was

  • Deicer keeps the mission from freezing

    A large cloud hovers in the sky, darkening as the low temperature causes a unique crystalline structure to form, and drops it towards the land below. The snowflake is joined by billions of other snowflakes, one tiny piece of a blizzard, common in this region in the winter. The snowflake lands on the

  • Aerospace Ground Equipment Airmen keep mission rolling

    It's a few days after Christmas and a call came into the 3rd Maintenance Squadron Aerospace Ground Equipment office for generators, lights, stands and heaters to combat the minus 10 degree weather. Airman 1st Class Dimitri Davis, 3rd MXS, a Stonewall, Miss. native, has to make sure the equipment is

  • Two Arctic Warriors STEP promoted

    Two Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson non-commissioned officers were bestowed an honor recently that only three Airmen throughout 11th Air Force will receive all year.Newly promoted Master Sgt. Jeffery Holewinske, 703rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 3rd Wing, and Tech. Sgt. Yucari Brown, 673d Civil

  • 98th Maintenance Company to deploy

    A ceremony to recognize the upcoming deployment of the 98th Maintenance Company will be hosted at the Alaska National Guard Armory Monday at 3 p.m.Approximately 130 Soldiers will be deploying in February for a 12-month tour of duty in Kuwait where they will provide vehicle maintenance, welding and