• Aircraft structural maintenance Airman keeps aircraft safe

    Instead of saving lives manually blowing up daisy-chained artillery rounds on the side of a road, Airman 1st Class Lukas Johnson said he is equally happy saving lives defusing potential structural problems that could cause a catastrophic failure in flight.

  • Weapons Airmen prep jets for combat

    Weapons Airmen flew to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to support 15 Eagles from the 67th Fighter Squadron for this year’s iteration of Cope North. The exercise includes a total of 22 flying units comprised of members from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force, U.S. Navy, Air

  • 3rd Wing Annual Awards 2017

    Air Force personnel assigned to the 3rd Wing were recognized during the Annual Awards Banquet with special guest speaker Donald W. Sheppard, a retired Air Force Major General, in Hangar 1 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Feb. 20, 2017.

  • 3rd Wing welcomes Niemi as new commander

    Air Force Col. Christopher Niemi became the 3rd Wing commander in a change-of-command ceremony May 20 at Hangar 1 on JBER.Niemi previously served as the 33d Operations Group commander, 33d Fighter Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.Niemi replaces Air Force Col. Charles Corcoran, who has been the

  • JBER tows static C-130 for restoration

    Personnel from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson relocated the static C-130 Hercules from Heritage Park to Hangar 21 for refurbishment Feb. 27.Personnel from the Alaska Air National Guard, 3rd Wing, 673d Civil Engineer Group and contractors from General Communications Inc. worked together to prep,

  • Airmen create works of art with metals technology

    Off Japan's east coast, The Continental Plate and the Pacific Ocean Plate meet to form the Japan Trench.On March 11, 2011, the downward pressure from the Continental Plate on the Pacific plate suddenly released, causing it to surge more than 200 feet upward, triggering a magnitude 8.9 earthquake -

  • Dedicated crew chiefs honored by 90th Fighter Squadron

    "General, when is the last time you washed a rental car?"The story of how a crew chief responded to Air Force Gen. William Creech in the 1970s when asked what the maintainer liked about the Dedicated Crew Chief Program, reverberated through a hangar at the 90th Fighter Squadron on Joint Base

  • Thai combat controllers, U.S. air support operations make it rain

    Fliers and ground crews got used to a lot of foreign accents throughout Red Flag Alaska 15-3.However, for U.S. and coalition C-130 Hercules pilots, one unique accent that routinely pierced the steady droning noise of their Pratt and Whitney motors came from Royal Thai Air Force combat