• ALASKA STATE FAIR: End-of-summer bash continues through Monday in Palmer

    Celebrating its 75th year, the Alaska State Fair continues through this weekend.Though many featured events have passed since the fair's Aug. 25 opening, there are still plenty of marquee activities, concerts and performances to enjoy.Rock band Staind headlines Friday at 7 p.m. and is followed by

  • Senior engineers face challenges to complete sapper rite of passage

    On Aug. 17, the 6th Engineer Battalion (Combat) (Airborne) conducted the Order of the Arctic Sapper, a rigorous day-long training event involving multiple team-based challenges. The event's participants included 52 Soldiers in the rank of sergeant first class and above throughout the battalion. "The

  • Stryker Soldier killed by IED

    The U.S. Army Alaska Soldier who died Aug. 19 in Afghanistan has been identified as Pfc. Douglas Leonard Cordo, 20, of Kingston, N. Y.Cordo was killed, and two other Soldiers were wounded, by an improvised explosive device which detonated while they were on a mounted patrol in a Stryker vehicle in

  • JBER ham radio club offers skills, history, opportunity

    With easy Internet access almost anywhere these days, we often forget that everything depends on sensitive electronics and in many cases on fiber-optic and other cables underground or even under the ocean. Many things can disrupt those connections, from earthquakes to mudslides and fires. When that

  • Several months of hard work go into making RF-Alaska a success

    Alaska's premier quarterly exercise, Red Flag-Alaska, results from several long months of hard work put in by hundreds of individuals. Red Flag-Alaska, hosted at JBER and Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, four times a year, is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for the U.S. and

  • Joint basing strengthens 673d Security Forces Squadron

    More than 10 months after the former Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Richardson merged to form Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson; the 673d Security Forces Squadron is running on all cylinders.Air Force Capt. Melissa Hull, 673d Security Forces operations officer, said it was a challenge at first to

  • Alaska National Guardsmen conduct medical exercise at Khaan Quest 2011

    Members of the Alaska National Guard participated in a medical readiness training exercise designed to test a combined medical team's ability to provide basic medical care in a remote location with limited resources during Khaan Quest 2011 in the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.Khaan Quest 2011

  • Cloudy skies part for youth skateboard competition

    Family member Kristian Renna zipped across the cement, darting up a blue ramp before pirouetting his skateboard into a kickflip. Though the board rolled 360 degrees beneath him, Renna managed to rendezvous his feet with the deck high above the tarmac and the skater maneuvered his left hand into a