• Aircraft Maintenance Squadron earns top honors

    The 3rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, 3rd Maintenance Group, 3rd Wing, received the Air Force level 2011 Maintenance Effectiveness Award, Medium Category, during their promotion ceremony at the JBER-Elmendorf theater, Aug. 30."We've got a squadron on the base that's being recognized at the

  • Arctic front storms through Alaska, leaves a mess

    All summer, the Lower 48 has been hit with nasty weather - droughts, fires, record-breaking heat, and recently, Hurricane Isaac.Alaska, after record snowfall last winter, enjoyed a cool, pleasant summer.Until Tuesday night.An arctic storm off the southern Bering Sea brought high winds up Turnagain

  • Former US MiG pilot talks with 3rd Operations Group Airmen

    A two-ship of F-4 Phantom II fighters arced over the simmering Mojave desert, their four J79 engines rapidly converting JP-4 fuel into thundering noise and blinding speed. The lead pilot, scanning the scorched landscape for radar contacts, could just make out twin subsonic glints of light moving at

  • Operational F-22's employ small diameter bombs during WSEP

    During a Combat Hammer exercise Alaska F-22 Raptors became the first operational F-22 unit to drop GBU-39 small diameter bombs.Although small diameter bombs have been employed by test pilots, Combat Hammer, a weapons system evaluation program sponsored by the 86th Fighter Weapons Squadron, provided

  • Australian airman pilots F-22s at JBER

    A transient Kadena Air Base F-15 Eagle roared down the JBER airfield like a top-fuel funny car blasting down a quarter-mile track. An instant after lifting off the tarmac, the pilot turned the Eagle's nose nearly straight up, and the engines' afterburners catapulted the jet skyward in an almost NASA

  • Guard, active-duty aircrew provide airlift to reserves

    A combined Alaska Air National Guard and JBER active-duty aircrew provided a team of JBER reservists airlift support to Hill Air Force Base, Utah on Friday.Members from the 249th and 517th Airlift squadrons transported equipment and personnel for the 477th Fighter Group. The Reserve team is headed

  • Reserve, active duty, Guard compete in Turkey Shoot

    Pilots and maintainers assigned to the 477th Fighter Group competed alongside their active duty and Air National Guard counterparts in the 3rd Wings Turkey Shoot competition July 17-19 here.A Turkey Shoot is an Air Force tradition that goes back to the early days of tactical aviation."Throughout the

  • Prepping to launch eyes in the sky

    Senior Airmen Brandon Ansbro and Michael Dawson, both crew chiefs with the 703rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, perform an over wing inspection on an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System assigned to the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron, July 2. Ansbro is from Missoula, Mont., and Dawson

  • Airman’s restored ride brings a bit of Britain to JBER

    Among automotive enthusiasts' 600-plus horsepower pony cars and hulking SUVs decked out with blingtastic chrome 22-inch rims, Tech. Sgt. Danny Damons' 1966 Ford Cortina Super might seem rather pedestrian by comparison.But upon closer inspection of the small green coupe, a not-insignificant