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  • Airman reaches milestone with 5,000 inspections

    Lightning diverter strips sitting flush – check. Hydro lines show no evidence of leaks or chafing. All of the 246 other items on the basic post-flight inspection – check. It’s a 40-minute inspection, done every time an aircraft returns from a sortie, and on Oct. 14, it was the 5,000th time Tech.

  • “Always Forward”

    “Always Forward” composition by Brett Bakner, 2017The CompositionThe idea behind this composition was to bridge the past with the present. This piece is actually two photographs digitally stitched together. The singular element that allowed both photographs to meld is the damaged B-24 Liberator in

  • Staff Sergeant Leslie Edwards Jr.

    Leslie Edwards was born Aug. 9, 1924, in Memphis Tennessee. He was the youngest of three children, his father was bellhop and his mother looked after the children. The family moved from Memphis to Cincinnati in 1925. Before dropping out of high school in 1938, he attended Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • AF announces enlisted PME redesign

    Air Force officials announced major changes to the enlisted professional military education program today via an initiative called Enlisted Professional Military Education for the 21st Century, or “EPME 21”.

  • Ability to Survive and Operate (ATSO)

    Airmen from the 477th Fighter Group arrange de-contamination stations for equipment and personnel, while practicing the dynamics of using them in a polluted environment during the Ability to Survive and Operate training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Sept. 09, 2017. (U.S. Air Force

  • JBER members get involve to combat Childhood Obesity

    September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion said one in three children in the United States are considered obese or overweight. In Alaska alone, it is three in 10 high school students.Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson offers many