• Arctic Sappers train and build at Donnelly Training Area

    The 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) spent most of the last month north of the Alaska Range testing the unit's ability to conduct full-spectrum engineer operations in an exercise dubbed Operation Tundra Wolf."This field exercise was truly a complex operation, an airborne operation, an air

  • Alaska National Guard ‘makes the cut’ on Discovery Channel

    A cable show aimed to take viewers into the intense world of military elite forces training will highlight the Alaska Air National Guard's 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons.A camera crew with the Discovery Channel's "Surviving the Cut" series filmed the Guard members performing water rescue

  • Pararescue Airmen train with Coast Guard

    Coast Guardsmen in association with Alaska Air National Guard 212th Rescue Squadron pararescue Airmen performed a jump training exercise, June 23, at Joint Base-Elmendorf-Richardson's Malamute Drop Zone.The training was in anticipation of the upcoming July exercise at Barrow, Alaska, where

  • JBER police take aim at simulated active shooter

    Security Forces Soldiers and Airmen at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson stressed their police skills, June 24, during a high-risk response train-the-trainer course, where the group's final exercise was an active-shooter scenario."Today is their final day for the high risk response train-the-trainer

  • Vintage Air Force veteran visits his unit 56 years later

    In early June, the 381st Intelligence Squadron on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson welcomed back one of its own. Seventy-eight-year-old Forrest St. Aubin made his first trip to Alaska since completing his tour in 1955. The unit's leadership quite literally rolled out the red carpet and employed an

  • Boy Scout camp out

    "You get to do a lot stuff you couldn't normally do like rock climbing and learning to actually shoot a rifle, shotgun and black-powder muzzle loaders," said Trentin Wermers, of Boy Scout Troop 190. "My favorite thing is being able to make campfires."Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson has not one but

  • Cruisin’ the Gulf of Alaska during Northern Edge

    Several ships from the Navy and Coast Guard cruised to Alaska to participate in the two week exercise Northern Edge. Some played the role of blue forces, or the 'good guys,' and others played the opposing forces role. Ships participating in the training were the USS Decatur, USS Lake Erie, USCG

  • Joint aviators 'fight' in Alaskan skies

    Training for combat comes in many shapes and forms, but for aviators military wide it comes in the form of Northern Edge.There are two types of aviators at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during the exercise -- the 'good guys' and the aggressors.The exercise is an air campaign scenario, which means