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  • A Navy F-18 Hornet leaves the flight line Sept. 23, 2015 for dissimilar air combat training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Dissimilar air combat training involves different types of airframes training with and against each other. The goal is to expand pilots’ proficiency in as many circumstances as possible. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kyle Johnson)

    Air Force, Navy hone skills in the skies

    F-22 Raptors from the 90th Fighter Squadron duked it out with F-18 Hornets from Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 15 to wrest as much training experience from each other Sept. 14-25.
  • Linda DeFrancesco, mother of Senior Airman Lawrence DeFrancesco, places her hands on a plaque with her son’s name on it during a quiet moment before a ceremony at the Yukla 27 memorial. American and Canadian airmen assigned to the 962nd Airborne Air Control Squadron, distinguished guests, and surviving family members of the crew of the E-3B Sentry, AWACS aircraft, call sign Yukla 27, gathered for 20th anniversary memorial ceremonies, Sept 22, 2015, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Yukla 27, from the 962nd AACS, encountered a flock of geese and crashed shortly after takeoff on a routine surveillance training sortie Sept. 22, 1995, killing all 24 U.S. and Canadian airmen aboard. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

    Families mark 20 years since tragic loss of AWACS crew

    On Sept. 22, 2015 -- 20 years after Yukla 27's final flight -- more than 150 friends and family members gathered in a frigid Alaska morning, having flown in from all over the world to honor the 24 crew members lost that day.
  • U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force wait to board a C-130 Hercules from Yokota Air Base, Japan, during Red Flag-Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Aug. 12, 2015. More than 60 U.S. Army Soldiers and more than 20 JGSDF members jumped from multiple C-130 Hercules during the training. More than 20 allied countries have participated in Red Flag-Alaska since its conception, improving integration, interoperability and cross-cultural competence. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Cody H. Ramirez/Released)

    Japanese forces jump from US aircraft for first time in Red Flag-Alaska history

    A C-130 Hercules assigned to the36th Airlift Squadron from Yokota Air Base, Japan, became the first U.S. aircraft to drop Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members onto U.S. soil, during Red Flag-Alaska Aug. 12.
  • U.S Air Force Tech. Sgt. Joshua Reitz, left and Master Sgt. Yusef Saad, both contracting officers with Detachment 1, Pacific Regional Support Center, stand in front of the passenger terminal at Wake Island Airfield, July 21, 2015. A small team with four Airmen of Det. 1 supervises contractor operations and ensures missions success on the remote atoll in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel/Released)

    Meet the Airmen of Wake Island

    About 1,500 miles east of Guam, in the middle of nowhere in the Mid-Pacific, lies the small coral limestone atoll of Wake Island. Ahead of Guam by about two hours, a select group of four Airmen here are the first Americans to turn the calendar page every day.
  • U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party Airmen with the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, watch as an MH-60S Seahawk takes off July 22, 2015, Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The joint terminal attack controller team conducted essential close air support training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Alexander W. Riedel/Released)

    TACPs control skies over Guam for joint training

    To practice their skills, tactical air control party Airmen assigned to the 3rd Air Support Operations Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, recently made the long journey to Guam to train with a variety of units from Joint Region Marianas.
  • The Indian Mountain long-range radar site is one of many sites with a mission is to track aircraft in Alaska's airspace and along Alaska's borders for unauthorized aircraft. The sites aid in the ongoing defense of U.S. airspace. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Kyle Johnson)

    Securing Alaska’s airspace: Radar sites work around the clock

    All around Alaska and out into the Pacific, little white domes dot the mountainside, coastlines and islands -- the only tangible evidence of America's invisible armor.
  • An F-22 Raptor from the 525 Fighter Squadron, returns from a mission during exercise Northern Edge 2015 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 18, 2015. Northern Edge is Alaska’s premier joint training exercise designed to practice operations, techniques and procedures, as well as enhance interoperability among the services. Thousands of participants from all services and components were involved. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. William Banton)

    Raptors bring intimidation to exercise Northern Edge

    Its wide muzzle, short black broad nose with large nostrils and deep-set, dark eyes grimace intimidation across the patch on the right shoulder of the pilot boarding his aircraft while preparing to engage an enemy in the joint interoperability environment that is Northern Edge 2015.
  • Navy Lt. Cmdr. Paul Cocker (left), the Alaskan Command deputy chief of future operations and Operation Colony Glacier project officer, shows local media some of the aircraft debris from the 1952 C-124 Globemaster II accident, June 10, 2015. Each summer since 2012, ALCOM has supported Operation Colony Glacier by removing aircraft debris and assisting in the recovery of human remains to ensure closure for families who have lost loved ones. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Gordinier)

    Alaska's military continues Operation Colony Glacier support

    In November 1952, an Air Force C-124 Globemaster II with 52 passengers and crewmembers aboard crashed near Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. Almost 60 years later, June 9, 2012, an Alaska National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk crew on a training mission noticed some debris on Colony Glacier. The National Guard sent a team on foot to examine the site and they retrieved items that were identified as being from the C-124 crash.Since then, every summer during a small window of opportunity, Alaskan Command and Alaska National Guard personnel have been supporting the joint effort of Operation Colony Glacier.
  • An Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, drops approximately 700 gallons of water from a “Bambi Bucket” on to the Stetson Creek Fire near Cooper Landing, Alaska, June 17, 2015. Two Black Hawks flew a total of 200 bucket missions, dumping more than 144,000 gallons of water on the 300-acre Stetson Creek Fire on the Kenai Peninsula. (U.S. Army National Guard photo/Sgt. Balinda O’Neal)

    Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson responds to Alaska wildfires

    Firefighters from the 673rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson recently assisted with the Division of Forestry's efforts in containing the Sockeye wildfire near Willow, Alaska.
  • Airman 1st Class Deniqwia Brooks, a 673rd Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels specialist, prepares to fuel an F-15C Eagle on the flightline at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, June 8, 2015. The fuels management flight was recently recognized as the best in the Air Force due to its stellar performance despite the fact that they operate out of three geographically distant areas on an installation larger than all other Pacific Air Forces bases combine. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Wes Wright)

    Elmendorf fuels flight named best in AF

    The Air Force recently recognized the 673rd Logistics Readiness Squadron's Fuels Management Flight as the best in the Air Force after being named the winner of the 2014 American Petroleum Institute Award.
  • Staff Sgt. Joshua Greene, is just one of more than 30 Sexual Assault Prevention and Response victim advocates at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, who are the first line of support for victims of sexual assault. The victim advocate offers support to their clients, facilitates their decision making, informs them of their rights, serves as a liaison among agencies, accompanies their clients to appointments, offer crisis intervention, conducts safety planning and works with other helping and law enforcement agencies until their services are no longer needed or requested. Greene is assigned to the 673rd Civil Engineer Squadron as a firefighter. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Sheila deVera)

    Victim advocate lends a helping hand

    Staff Sgt. Joshua Greene, a 673rd Civil Engineer Squadron firefighter, has been a victim advocate for the past seven years, and although he hadn't put much thought into it when he signed up, the impact he has made on others has caused him to never look back.
  • Jolly Tangog, an equipment specialist with Air Force engineering and technical services for the 732nd Air Mobility Squadron, supervises Senior Airman Adam Orton, a jets lead technician, as he uses a C-5M Super Galaxy maintenance trainer on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 7, 2015. Tangog came up with the cost-saving idea to build a trainer at Elmendorf rather than sending Airmen away on a temporary duty for expensive refresher training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Alejandro Pena)

    Equipment specialist saves AF money by building simulator

    Just a few months into his work as equipment specialist with Air Force engineering and technical services for the 732nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Tangog, a retired master sergeant noticed his leadership was looking for ways to save money on training. He had an idea. He wanted to build a C-5M Super Galaxy maintenance trainer to train Airmen at Elmendorf instead of sending them to the continental U.S.
  • Airman 1st Class Cortny Pelton, assigned to 673rd Force Support Squadron, prepares food for lunch at the Iditarod Dining Facility April 23, 2015, on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Pelton, a native of Wyoming, Mich., and the rest of the 673rd FSS, earned the Air Force Curtis E. LeMay award for best large installation-level FSS of the year in the Air Force for 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

    Elmendorf force support squadron earns LeMay award

    The 673rd Force Support Squadron earned the Air Force Curtis E. LeMay award for best large installation-level FSS of the year in the Air Force for 2014. The award recognizes the 673rd FSS leadership, customer service, support and quality-of-life programs provided to joint military members and their families.
  • Airman 1st Class James Jones, a cyber systems operator assigned to the 673rd Communications Squadron, lifts a dumbbell at the Elmendorf Fitness Center April 20, 2015. Jones, a native of Ocean Springs Miss., took first place in his middleweight class, first overall in the men's category at the 2015 National Physique Committee Alaska State Championships on April 4. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

    Elmendorf Airman named Alaska bodybuilding champion

    Airman 1st Class James Jones, a 673rd Communications Squadron cyber systems operator, participated in the 2015 National Physique Committee Alaska State Championships on April 4. He spent more than a year preparing, chiseling at his physique slowly but surely every day. Hundreds of hours in the gym, a diet that would drive many people insane and an entire lifestyle designed to push his body to its maximum potential, would be validated or destroyed by a panel of judges when all his hard work was unveiled under bright stage lights.
  • The first load of the ammunition containers arrive on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, April 15, 2015. Contracted forklift operators use their skills to unload each container, which weights between 20,000 and 40,000 pounds. After they are offloaded from the trucks, the ammunition inspection team standing by opens the containers and inspects the ammunition before storing them into earth-covered igloos. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Kyle Johnson)

    Troops conduct biannual 'ammo barge' mission in Alaska

    Twice a year, millions of pounds of explosives and ammunition travel north through Pacific waters in a biannual migration designed to resupply military installations across Alaska.
  • Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Kimberly Daugherty, a C-17 Globemaster III loadmaster with the 249th Airlift Squadron, is studying to get her private pilot license with the Elmendorf Aero Club at Joint Base Elmendorf-RIchardson, Alaska. Daugherty endeavors to a professional pilot flying for the Air National Guard or for a commercial carrier. (U.S. Air Force photo/David Bedard)

    Airman aims high for the future

    Since early childhood, Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Kimberly Daugherty has admired service members, especially those who fly. The shiny wings displayed on their uniforms instilled in her a sense of wonder. When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always responded with the same answer: an astronaut or pilot.
  • Senior Master Sgt. Gene Geren drills holes for blocks to be cut and removed during an Arctic oil spill response exercise Feb. 4, 2015, in Alaska. The removed blocks will open up a trench to deploy accumulation equipment to clean up a simulated spill. Members of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving, and U.S. Coast Guardsmen participated in the exercise to learn Arctic spill response tactics and techniques. Geren is the 11th Air Force first sergeant. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. John Gordinier)

    Arctic conditions make cleaning waste a challenge

    Members of the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, along with five other state and federal agencies, practiced techniques to deal with oil or hazardous waste spills under cold weather conditions during an exercise here Feb. 3-5.
  • Master Sgt. Roger Sparks poses in an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Sparks received a Silver Star in July 2014 for his role in saving Soldiers in a 2010 engagement in Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)

    Guardian Angel recounts battle which earned him Silver Star

    The air erupted with the percussive sound of machine-gun fire. Master Sgt. Roger Sparks jumped out of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter and began the 40-foot hoist down to the bleeding men clinging to a tree for cover.
  • Staff Sgt. Ace and Senior Airman Paola, both explosive ordnance disposal technicians, strategize their movement while on foot patrol during a training exercise Dec. 30, 2014, in Southwest Asia. Airmen who work in the EOD flight are required to think outside the box and accept nothing less than perfection when performing their duties. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Marie Brown)

    EOD: Keeping Airmen, community safe

    The motto, “initial success or total failure,” requires Airmen of the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) flight here to think outside the box and accept nothing less than perfection when performing their duties.
  • Former Airman 1st Class Lane Wyatt recounts the night of June 30, 2013, when he killed Citari Townes-Sweatt in a drunken-driving accident. Wyatt was sentenced Dec. 19, 2014, to 18 years in prison. (U.S. Air Force photos/David Bedard)

    Former Airman sentenced to 18 years in drunken-driving death tells story

    Former Airman 1st Class Lane Wyatt was responsible for killing a young woman while driving under the influence June 30, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. He was sentenced Dec. 19, 2014, to 18 years in prison.
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