• More sleep possible for Anchorage School District students

    Adolescents today face a widespread chronic health problem: sleep deprivation, according to sleepfoundation.com.Anchorage School District is considering offering more sleep to adolescents, while maximizing learning opportunities for young children, by beginning school days later for high school

  • Future Airmen get taste of BMT, guidance from leadership

    Future Air Force Airmen from across the state of Alaska received a unique opportunity to speak with Air Force Recruiting Service leadership and to get a taste of basic military training in Anchorage, Alaska, March 13, 2018.U.S. Air Force Col. Bob Trayers, AFRS vice commander, and Chief Master Sgt.

  • Get Screened: March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month

    The gastroenterology clinic at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, is encouraging arctic warriors to get screened as part of Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States

  • Arctic conditions provide valuable lessons in Alaska exercise

    U.S. Alaskan Command has easily proven that Summer Soldiers or Sunshine Patriots do not exist in the U.S. military.More Than 1,500 U.S. military personnel braved the snowy and icy conditions, and temperatures that dipped well below zero to participate in the multi-service exercise last week. Arctic

  • 673d LRG enhances readiness with mobility exercise

    Twice each year, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, hosts Polar Force, a two-week exercise designed to test the base's ability to integrate, mobilize and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment.To bridge the gap between these exercises, the 673d Logistics Readiness Group conducts

  • Healthy Scoops for Healthy Troops

    In Fort Greely, Alaska, long before the sun rises over the mountains, Lance Cpl. Miguel Rojas, a food service specialist for Combat Logistics Regiment 25 has already begun his day accompanied by the other cooks participating in Arctic Edge 18.

  • Alaska Guardsmen conduct operations in frozen Beaufort Sea

    More than 50 Alaska National Guardsmen are supporting the U.S. Navy's Ice Exercise several hundred miles north of the Alaskan coastline. The training is linked to the Alaska National Guard's Arctic Eagle 2018, a statewide exercise involving national, state and local agencies designed to provide