• Jay Leno trades desk for stand-up gig with troops, families

    Tour for the Troops brings Leno to baseThousands of service members, their families and friends filled the Buckner Physical Fitness Center Saturday night, as part of Jay Leno's Tour for the Troops, sponsored by the Air Force Reserve.Leno finished taping the Tonight Show, Friday afternoon, flew to

  • Rage City delivers roller derby mayhem

    When an average person thinks of roller derby, perhaps images are conjured up of a woman wearing a viking helmet, throwing an elbow to brutally catapult an adversary over a banked-track rail into a bewildered crowd.Jennifer Schober, Pratt and Whitney field service representative at Joint Base

  • Where is thy salute?

    During an Airman Leadership School graduation at a previous assignment, a Navy senior chief just gave a motivating speech to challenge the leaders of tomorrow.This was quickly followed by the introduction of the dead fish.The installation commander gave the Levitow Award and other academic and

  • PFAR trains to be mission ready

    Dirt and debris flew everywhere, thrown into the air by the rapid rotating blades of a UH-60 Black Hawk as it hovered to the ground carrying a M119 105 mm howitzer cannon. The Black Hawk released the howitzer and it settled to the ground as Soldiers made a quick exit and ducked for cover until the

  • Energy awareness saves money at work, home

    October is Energy Awareness Month and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's energy team is working a three-pronged plan to reduce energy use, create new energy and change the culture of base energy users.Reduce demandJBER Resource Efficiency Manager Francis Sheridan explained changing demand comes in

  • Alaska Guard improves readiness with new equipment

     From state-of-the-art Army combat helmets to brand new up-armored vehicles, the Alaska National Guard boasts the newest individual and unit level equipment worth millions of dollars. For the past two years, the Alaska Army National Guard reorganized our legacy forces of units such as the 207th

  • All-Army women clinch softball championship

    The undefeated All-Army women won eight games and put six players on the all-tournament team at the 2010 Armed Forces Softball Championships, Sept. 19 to 23.Sgt. Windy Klein of Fort Hood, Texas, pitched and batted a tournament-high .545 to lead All-Army (8-0) against All-Air Force (3-5) and All-Navy

  • Airman tops local bodybuilding competition

    Shawn Wolfe won big at the Anchorage Bodybuilding Fitness and Figure, 22nd Annual Anchorage Professional/Amateur Natural Bodybuilding Championships, Oct. 3. Wolfe, an Air Force master sergeant with the 611th Air Support Squadron won both the lightweight division, and the overall male category. "It

  • Jay Leno headlines at Buckner Physical Fitness Center

    Arguably the world's most famous comedian, NBC's "Tonight Show" Host Jay Leno will perform a free show for troops and military family members, Saturday, at the Buckner Physical Fitness Center.The doors open at 7 p.m., with the performance set to begin at 7:30. Tickets were distributed to unit