'Pro-supers': conductors of the flightline orchestra

The 13th and 14th Aircraft Maintenance Units' main responsibility is to provide maintenance as well as enabling pilots to do their duty in safe and reliable aircraft. However, it takes more than tools and equipment to maintain aircraft; it takes a controlled flow of information and time management

Local cities' police leaders visit SFS

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

Active-duty Airmen of C-130-equipped 537th Airlift Squadron settle in at JBER

As the C-130H Hercules descended, the seemingly never-ending cloud cover broke at 1,200 feet. The dirt and snow runway came into view and the aircraft touched down soon after. The rear door opened and a blast of cold air entered the bay. The temperature was approximately 20 degrees below zero and

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

CES builds new home for Misawa strays

Yokota youth visits DS for NCDHM

Sunrise over Yokota

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