JBER sharpens readiness through exercise Polar Force
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Rudy Johnson, assigned to the command element of 773d Logistics Readiness Squadron, watches Airmen disembark from a bus at the Joint Mobility Complex on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 6, 2023, as part of a deployment phase of the Polar Force 24-2 exercise. Polar Force is a training exercise designed to test JBER’s mission readiness as well as honing Airmen’s skills and techniques in a simulated expeditionary environment. Airmen refined their contingency tactics, techniques and procedures to support the base's ability to integrate, mobilize, and prepare assigned personnel, aircraft and equipment for a wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Justin Connaher)