• 3rd Wing's outstanding performer

    This week's 3rd Wing outstanding performer is Chief Master Sgt. David Maniccia, 3rd Operations Support Squadron superintendent. Maniccia was awarded the Bronze Star Oct. 7 for meritorious achievement as superintendent of operations for a joint task force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While

  • U.S. Air Force HARRT arrives in Indonesia

    A U.S. Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team arrived at the Bandar Udara International Airport late in the evening Oct. 5 with approximately 200,000 pounds of medical and contingency response equipment. The 69-member team set up a mobile field hospital near the M. Jamil hospital here

  • PACAF Airmen deploy to Indonesia to help quake victims

    Airmen assigned to Pacific Air Forces left here and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Oct. 5 for Padang, Indonesia, to provide medical care to those affected by the recent 7.6-magnitude earthquake. The Airmen are part of an Air Force Humanitarian Assistance Rapid Response Team that left on two C-17

  • 3rd MDSS pulls upset over 3rd CES

    The 3rd Medical Support Squadron went into Elmendorf's flag football finals as underdogs, needing two consecutive victories over the 3rd Civil Engineer Squadron Sept. 28. Sure enough, after blowing out the 3rd CES in the first game 22-7, they beat them again, but in a much closer game that resulted

  • Allen Army Airfield to save Air Force money, provide tactical training

    Brig. Gen. Charles Foster, 176th Wing commander, and Col. Thomas Bergeson, 3rd Wing commander, were on hand Sept. 29 during the ribbon cutting ceremony for Allen Army Airfield, only the seventh assault landing strip in the Air Force, located north of Elmendorf. After four years of planning and

  • Elmendorf units complete ANR inspection

    Members supporting the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Command Region mission received the highest readiness rating after a Region Alert Force Evaluation here Sept. 15-17. The 30-person inspector general team from NORAD's headquarters evaluated all supporting elements of the region's

  • IDS offers new program

    Elmendorf's Integrated Delivery System, a group that is responsible for developing and monitoring base-wide outreach and prevention programs, offers a new support program called Healing Empty Arms Through Sharing, which begins Oct. 8. HEARTS, led by Chaplain (Capt.) James Claggett and his wife, Jan,