• Joint base champions: 3rd EMS grabs flag football title

    It took back-to-back defensive stands, but the 3rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron held on to beat the 56th Engineer Company 13-8 in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's intramural flag football tournament Saturday at the Buckner Physical Fitness Center field.The championship match highlighted a day of

  • Managing maintenance with many maintainers

    Airmen of the 3rd Maintenance Squadron, 3rd Wing, joined their various job skills to complete one common mission, the home station check, the week of Oct. 11.An HSC is an in-depth, four-day scheduled inspection of a C-17 Globemaster III.Each aircraft is sent in for an HSC every 180 days.Quality

  • Medical technician supports pararescuemen as they save lives

    Jumping out of C-130s, rappelling out of helicopters, and saving lives are all in a day's work for the pararescuemen of the 212th Rescue Squadron. Their hard work has been featured in the local newspaper and Men's Fitness Magazine.The 212th RQS has had a total of 56 saves already this year and one

  • Surgical team preps to deploy with weekend in Miami

    The 8th Forward Surgical Team (Airborne), based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, is heading to Miami.That might sound like a vacation to most of us, but unless your idea of the perfect getaway involves working 48 straight hours in a busy hospital trauma unit, it's clearly not.The 8th FST, one of

  • Beat the bulge and Soar into Shape this year

    Have a plan to combat those holiday pounds and stay in shape this winter?If not, then consider what nearly 300 people last year did and sign up for Soar into Shape offered by Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Health and Wellness Center. The nine-week programs focus on healthy lifestyle choices

  • Norway soars into first RF-Alaska

    History was made during the most recent Red Flag-Alaska. The Royal Norwegian Air Force made its debut with 23 airmen and one C-130 Hercules from the 135th Air Wing of Gardermoen Air Station, Norway. Four times a year JBER and Eielson Air Force Base host RF-Alaska, a Pacific Air Forces-directed field

  • Intramural sports move indoors

    With the onset of cold weather, most intramural sports action has moved indoors at Buckner Physical Fitness Center.Intramural basketball games are played week nights at 6, 7, 8 and 9 p.m. on two courts, while inner tube water polo matches are competed in Buckner's pool every Wednesday evening