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  • Take this job and love it: Mission readiness being solved one meal at a time

    Editor's Note: This is the second in a series called "Take this job and love it," which are stories based on service members with interesting careers and their experiences.Cooking dinner for family and friends is a typical routine for many service members each day, but for the Airmen working in the

  • SERE instructors teach Airmen to survive, escape

    There are only approximately 400 Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists in the Air Force, and two of them reside at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.Air Force Staff Sgt. Greg Avey and Tech. Sgt. Reid Beveridge are SERE specialists and belong to JBER's 3rd Operations Support Squadron's

  • Osan remembers Battle of Bayonet Hill

    Team Osan paid tribute to the soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment, Feb. 3, whose heroic actions 61 years ago helped secure the freedom of South Koreans during the Korean war. During an annual ceremony held on the same hill where bayonets were used to fight off enemy soldiers decades ago, Korean

  • Fiscal austerity requires leveraging 'total force'

    In wartime and peacetime, the total force construct is virtually seamless, with Guardsmen and Reserve service members who are indistinguishable from their active-component peers. Our recent air operations in Libya are but the latest example.The ability of our Guardsmen and Reservists to deploy on

  • Kunsan answered the call

    The call for help came during the early morning hours late in August. Sensors detected the presence of a potential biologic agent on Chinhae Naval Base, located on the Republic of Korea's southeast coast. Members of the 8th Medical Group and 8th Civil Engineer Squadron deployed within hours to