• JBER Airmen are top AWACS crew

    Look! Up in the Alaska sky ...is that a jet giving a UFO a piggyback ride!? No, it's a United States Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System jet. This is a long-range airborne surveillance, detection, identification, and command and control platform created by modifying a Boeing

  • 3RD WING welcomes Nahom as new commander

    Air Force Col. David Nahom became the 3rd Wing commander in a change-of-command ceremony March 20 at Hangar 1 on JBER.Nahom previously served as the executive officer to the commander, Pacific Air Forces, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.Nahom replaces Air Force Col. Dirk Smith, who has

  • 3rd Wing E-3 Sentries fly south to Guam for COPE NORTH

    Continually, military members are called upon to participate in exercises at home or abroad, but to what end? Ex-er-cise: something performed or practiced in order to develop, improve or display a specific capability or skill.Exercises are more than a chance for Airmen to practice the mission; an

  • Air Force grease monkey is also jumpmaster

    On any given day, more than 100 Army airborne paratrooperss may be lined up in the back of a C-17 Globemaster III awaiting a final safety inspection before being cleared to exit the aircraft toward a drop zone thousands of feet below.The important job of ensuring the safety, proficiency and

  • JBER captain PACAF's Athlete of the Year

    191 of the United State's top female runners toed the line Jan. 14, 2012, to begin a 26.2-mile race. The air was tense as each athlete steeled their nerves and readied themselves for the run they had been training for the past year; the chance to represent their nation as one of the three top spots.

  • JBER's 3rd Wing wins PACAF safety award

    The Pacific Air Forces Safety Special Achievement Award was presented to the 3rd Wing during a flight safety awards ceremony Jan. 2. The award recognizes the wing's outstanding accomplishments in numerous mishap prevention areas."It is truly an honor to receive this particular award," said Air Force

  • Projecting capability, 525th, 302nd FS 'drop' in on Combat Hammer, Archer

    During the December Combat Hammer and Archer exercises at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., active duty and Reserve F-22 pilots were able to employ weapons on ground and air targets using the Increment 3.1 upgrade.Combat Hammer, a weapons system evaluation program sponsored by the 86th Fighter Weapons

  • 3rd Wing load crews vie for top honors

    As another year passes, two load crews compete for pride and a plaque in the 3rd Wing Load Crew of the Quarter competition Jan. 4. The objective of the load competition was to test the abilities and work ethic of two or more load crews from different fighter squadrons.The 90th and 525th aircraft