• Big impact: 3rd MUNS Airmen train to build munitions

    'The United States Air Force, dropping warheads on foreheads since 1947.' Many have heard this phrase before, perhaps chuckled, and moved on.Those who hear it may attribute the glory to the brave men and women piloting fighter jets every day, but few think, 'Where do the bombs come from; and how

  • 3rd ASOS conducts joint 'jump week' with 1 Geronimo troops

    Two doors on the aircraft flew open with a bang and the wind pulled and tugged, trying to grab whatever or whoever it could.The jumpmaster yelled "Go! Go! Go!" as the Airmen and paratroopers fell like a hail of arrows.Kodiak Solstice jump week is hosted by the Air Force 3rd Air Support Operations

  • 3rd ASOS Airmen remember their fallen with a 24-hour run

    Each year, members of the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron's Tactical Control Party organize and participate in a 24-hour run challenge to honor the 10 fallen TACP family who were killed in combat and training operations in the last 20 years.The 24-hour run challenge is a worldwide competition to

  • 3rd Wing looks back at ‘tremendous’ 2014, forward to new year

    As a new year starts, the 3rd Wing has already begun to gear up in support of exercise Sentry Aloha, an annual aerial combat exercise focused on offensive and defensive counter measures. However, before they begin the many operations they will support in 2015, Air Force Col. Charles Corcoran, 3rd

  • Airmen vie for top load-crew distinction

    "You just have to do it right and do it slow," said Airman 1st Class Dominic Hobbs, an aircraft armament systems specialist with the 90th Aircraft Maintenance Unit.That advice works - as long as your definition of "slow" is less than 35 minutes.When loading 2,000 lbs of explosives and hundreds of

  • Airman continues the family business

    Dana Walker is from a family focused on science. Her father and her siblings have careers in different sciences and Walker herself chose to become a meteorologist in the Air Force."I could have done practically anything and I picked weather," said Air Force Staff Sgt. Walker, 3rd Operations Support

  • JBER mechanics maintain mission posture

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson vehicle mechanics work to ensure vehicle fleets are operationally ready for any mission."The mission of the JBER mechanics is to ensure the world's greatest fighting force has the ability to train, deploy and sustain the fight at any time and in any condition," said

  • Aircraft metals technician turns material into mission

    Ancient Rome, 2nd Century C.E. A blacksmith stretches his arm toward a fiery forge, plucking out a rod of iron - tip glowing red with accumulated heat. He places the rod over an immovable anvil and hammers on it until it's transformed from a shapeless billet into the recognizable shape of a

  • Aircrew Flight Equipment Airmen support 3rd Wing

    When you walk up to the double doors outside the Aircrew Flight Equipment building, you can just barely see rows of neatly arranged plastic boxes through the glass as you ring the doorbell to be let in.A senior airman signs you in on the clipboard hanging on the inside of the doors as your eyes dart