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  • Cadets experience 'frozen' scenario

    One overnight trip may not seem so bad during the summer, but a trip in the winter is no picnic. Cadets from both Eagle River and West High School participated in an overnight stay at Otter Lake on Fort Richardson to gain cold weather survival training Feb. 29-Mar 1. Arriving early Feb. 29, the

  • OSI agent receives Bronze Star award

    A special agent assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations 6th Field Investigations Squadron received a Bronze Star award for his service while deployed, here Feb. 26. Special Agent Eric O'Keefe, a computer crime investigator, earned the Bronze Star for his work in computer forensics

  • 18th AGR receives new pods to support mission

    Adequate training is vital to success in any combat situation. In the case of fighter pilots, training enables a higher percentage of mission success with adversaries both in the air and on the ground. Eielson Icemen are focusing their full efforts on the new mission with F-16 Aggressors and Red

  • PACAF Airmen participate in Exercise Balikatan ‘08

    Moving large amounts of equipment, personnel or humanitarian relief supplies can be daunting. But it's a task made for tactical and strategic airlifters like the C-130 Hercules and the C-17 Globemaster III. That's why they were instrumental in Exercise Balikatan '08. The joint and bilateral exercise

  • Depots would amaze warfighters, senior maintainer says

    When in 1979 Capt. Terry Gabreski was the officer in charge of a maintenance unit, she knew little about what the Air Force's air logistics centers did. "I wasn't very informed about the logistics center end of our business until I got to AFMC in 1995 - if I had known in my captain days what I know

  • PACAF maintainers gain top-down view of transformation

    One of the top Air Force leaders involved in engineering a broad transformation in aircraft maintenance processes and organizational structures arrived here March 3 to talk with senior leaders, wing commanders and maintainers throughout Pacific Air Forces. "We're looking at the most fundamental