• Elections and you: participation in political activities

    The 2012 election season is upon us, and while there are rules surrounding involvement in the political process, service members actually have a great deal of flexibility in how they can participate. The rules are intended to strike the appropriate balance between service members' individual rights

  • AFAS announces STAP changes

    Due to Air Force reductions in funding and manpower, Base Education Centers will no longer provide administrative support of the Air Force Aid Society's Spouse Tuition Assistance Program for spouses at outside the contiguous United States locations after July 2012. In response, the Air Force Aid

  • 18th Aggressor Squadron takes to the sky

    F-16 Fighting Falcon Aggressors launch during Cope North 2012, Feb. 14. More than 1,000 military members from units spanning the Pacific are scheduled to begin arriving this week for exercise Cope North. The trilateral exercise, which began Feb. 11 and will run through Feb. 24, is a multinational

  • Airmen debut as actors

    Volunteers from Eielson and the local community acted as victims Feb. 8 in the Fairbanks National Guard Armory during Alaska Shield 2012, a state-wide exercise that tested various components of the emergency operations plan from the Fairbanks North Star Borough and Fairbanks Fire Department."We do

  • HAWC class inspires healthy cooking

    A two-hour cooking class at the Health and Wellness Center Feb. 13 taught aspiring chefs to cook in ways promoting a healthy lifestyle.Find the Chef in You offered a hands-on cooking experience which showed participants that by following healthy choices, people can live healthier lives."One of the

  • Volunteering: an ACE up your sleeve

    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a volunteer as "a person who voluntarily undertakes or expresses a willingness to undertake a service."By this definition, all Airmen are volunteers. Every Airman willingly raised their right hand when they swore to defend the Constitution of the United States.

  • An open book, a world of knowledge

    In an ever-changing society of technology where information is readily available in almost any format, keeping up with advancements can often prove to be a challenge.For the base library staff, the challenge has been readily accepted in order to stray away from the image that a library is simply a

  • Mobile mammograms coming to Eielson

    Breast cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women each year and one of the most powerful tools in fighting the disease is early detection.The Eielson community can find those early detection services when the Breast Cancer Detection Center visits the base March 19 through 21.Every six months

  • Air Force announces force structure overview for FY 13 and beyond

    Air Force officials recently announced proposed force structure changes affecting Eielson Air Force Base. The proposed changes, which support the new DoD strategic guidance retiring 286 aircraft over the next five years including 227 in fiscal year 13, include the relocation of the18th Aggressor