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  • Yellow Ribbon provides service members, families tools for success

    Service members and their families received tools necessary for successful deployments during the western regional Yellow Ribbon event held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, Ariz., May 14-15.The event was referred to as a purple event, as it included Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard

  • Arctic Reservists begin work on Boy Scout Jamboree site

    Arctic Reservists assigned to the 477th Civil Engineer Squadron recently arrived in Beckley, W. Va. to begin work on a 10,600 acre National Scout Jamboree site as a part of Joint Task Force Summit. Over the next two weeks, 22 Reserve civil engineers will clear trees and install silt fences on the

  • 477th FG Chaplain receives AFRC Award for Excellence

    Chaplain (Maj.) Patrick Travers was awarded the Air Force Reserve Command's Chaplain Individual Award for Excellence during a ceremony May 3 in Denver, Colo."I was honored to receive this award, knowing that so many other Air Force Reserve chaplains had so many great achievements during 2010," said

  • Radliff assumes command of 477th Fighter Group

    Air Force Col. Bryan P. Radliff took the reins of 477th Fighter Group in an assumption-of-command ceremony, April 15, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Hangar 1. As his first action as group commander, Radliff rounded out the ceremony when he administered the oath of enlistment to nine new Air

  • Christmas Tree and Firewood Permits

    Christmas Tree and Firewood Permits are currently being issued free of charge at the JBER-Elmendorf Wildlife Education Center at 8481 19th Street to Military, Retired Military and DoD ID Card Holders. Permittees are limited to 1 Christmas Tree and 3 cords of wood per fiscal year. Maps of authorized

  • Select CDCs become available online

    Airmen in select career fields can now complete their career development courses through Air University's AU Online website -- a derivative website of Air Education and Training Command's Advanced Distributed Learning System -- that provides course access from work or home computers.Electronic CDCs

  • Guardsmen, Reservists can nominate employers for awards

    Reserve-component servicemembers still have time to nominate their employers for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The award is the Defense Department's highest honor for employers who provide exceptional support for employees who serve in the National Guard or

  • 477th Aerospace Medical Flight earns AFRC award

    Members of the 477th Aerospace Medical Flight earned the Team Aerospace Award from Air Force Reserve Command. Col. Stephen Baker, Commander of the 477th AMDF, accepted the award from the AFRC Command Surgeon Col. Brian Masterson and the AF Deputy Surgeon General, Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Byron Hepburn. "It

  • Reservist finds source of base power outage

    Areas on base Sunday experienced a power outage that included the 477th Fighter Group Headquarters during the unit's monthly Unit Training Assembly weekend. Instead of sitting around waiting for the power to be restored Tech. Sgt. John Orzechowski, 477th Civil Engineer Squadron, took action to find