Champions: 56th Engineers take flag football crown

Throughout the intramural flag football season, when 56th Engineer Company coach Lou Keemer wanted to scrimmage another team for practice, he could always count on Troy Johnson and his team from A Company, 307th Integrated Theater Signal Battalion to show up.As the two teams played through the Joint

It's Tipoff Time

Water polo splashes into JBER

Inner tube water polo season is just getting underway on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, but it's already a hit."People enjoy it a lot. We get lots of comments from people who said they didn't expect it to be as fun as it is," said Comptonne Byers, a lifeguard at Buckner Physical Fitness Center.The

Airman earns $10,000 with a simple IDEA

While performing a routine test procedure, a 90th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons expediter's heart sunk when he heard a sound no maintainer ever wants to hear.Crunch. He had accidentally damaged an F-22 Raptor configurable rail launcher, which mounts the fighter's AIM-9 Sidewinder heat-seeking

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson marks one year since becoming fully operations capable

What a year it has been. What a year it is. We are a nation at war. A nation born of battle, we've never been in sustained combat for so long in our history. Nor, can we find historical precedence for our current economic woes. Sustained combat power downrange, efficient operations at our

Logistics group proves a joint basing success with outstanding inspection

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's recently created 673d Logistics Readiness Group won big in September, by earning the highest mark possible in one of its first performance reviews by outside judges.Inspectors from Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and Pacific Air Forces Command,

Combined Federal Campaign kickoff Tuesday

The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Combined Federal Campaign begins Tuesday and is scheduled to run until Nov. 18.CFC is the federal government's authorized charity drive, the only time when federal employees, to include the Department of Defense, can be solicited for donations.This year, the CFC

FLAG Football: Army teams square off on the gridiron

Artillery spouses learn to parachute, fire weapons at family day

Spouses of 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment Soldiers got a taste of Airborne training during the unit's G. I. Jane Day Sept. 9 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.Just as it does for Soldiers, the spouses' day began with a formation behind the 2-377th headquarters for

BOSS: Not just for Soldiers anymore

The Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program has officially changed its name to show its inclusion of all services.The new name replaces Soldiers with service members and the program will extend its invitations and benefits to many more people, according to