• New Online Videos Help Military Families Understand Health Benefits

    Grab the popcorn...military families throughout TRICARE's west region now have a new, easy way to learn about their healthcare benefits through one of America's favorite pastimes--the movies. TriWest Healthcare Alliance--the Department of Defense contractor that administers TRICARE, the military's

  • Street Buzz: Who do you want to win March Madness?

    On March 19, base photographers hit the streets of Eielson asking Icemen, "For this year's March Madness college basketball tournament, President Obama has chosen Louisville Cardinals, North Carolina Tar Heels, Memphis Tigers and Pittsburgh Panthers in his Final Four bracket. How do you feel about

  • Eielson vet clinic closing

    Effective April 1, the Eielson Veterinarian Clinic will be closing its doors. Schedules will be released in the near future for limited services--like vaccinations and immunizations, which will be available during the upcoming moving season. Veterinarian services will be provided through Fort

  • Saving the Brave: Doctors' Day honors sacrifice of doctors

    Navy clinical psychologist Heidi Kraft, Ph.D., learned her toughest lesson in Iraq. She wrote a moving memoir, "Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital," about her time serving and titled it after a line from the television show M*A*S*H: "There are two rules of war. Rule number one

  • Air Force Inns Project

    The Goldrush Inn received Central Lodging Fund funding to update 10 distinguish visitors' suites. The project is in progress providing a whole room concept to each unit. Each unit will receive new flooring, paint, window treatments, furnishings, electronics, and appliances. The design scheme for the

  • Creative ways to stay fit

    "This is part two of a series on healthy living and the Air Force." While Airmen need to stay fit to pass their physical fitness test, exercising is not limited to physical training three or four days a week with the squadron and physical training leaders. Airmen have several options to exercise,

  • From the sub-arctic to center stage, Eielson Airman joins Tops in Blue

    An Eielson Iceman has turned in his snowshoes and has headed for the spotlight. Staff Sgt. James Warren, a chaplain's assistant here at Eielson was selected and is training to take his place in Tops in Blue. His new duty will take him away from the base chapel and put him on stage. Base