• Reveille, retreat discontinued until spring

    To help prevent accidents due to trying to stop vehicles on icy roads and to help avoid personnel standing at attention during extreme cold temperatures there will be no reveille and retreat until springtime. However, in order to comply with testing standards, Taps will continue to be played at 10

  • Street Buzz: How do you beat the winter blues?

    On Sept. 16, 354th Fighter Wing Public Affairs photographers hit the streets of Eielson and asked people, "How do you beat the winter blues?"click on the photos to see what people said.

  • Beating the Winter Blues

    Winter is here and you may be feeling like your own Snow White cast. You are Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Dopey, and sometimes Sneezy. We lose more than six minutes of daylight until Winter Solstice near Christmas, but the six minutes gained a day after that seem to take forever to make a difference.

  • What Airmen must do to execute their right to vote

    With the 2008 General Elections fast approaching, Pacific Air Forces leadership is encouraging all eligible members to make a difference and exercise their right to vote! Command and Base Voting officials are available to answer questions and theater postal managers from all Service branches will be

  • How to make a vehicle survival kit

    Living in Interior Alaska is unlike living anywhere else in the world. With the harsh winters, if your vehicle breaks down on the side of the road or you get stuck there's no running down the road to get help, and at negative 40 degrees it doesn't take long to turn into a popsicle. It pays to be

  • Safety is crucial during Interior winter

    All Icemen with Alaska winter experience are encouraged to pass on their winter knowledge to newly assigned "cheechakos" and special attention should be devoted to procedures and techniques minimizing risks to personnel, equipment, and mission during operations in Alaska's cold, dark winter.

  • Friday's Wing Safety Day focus: winter hazards

    The 354th Fighter Wing Safety office will host Winter Safety Day Sept. 26 at the base theater. The goal of Winter Safety Day is to educate personnel recently assigned to Eielson and to reinforce the numerous Alaska-unique winter season hazards to Alaska winter "veterans." There will be three safety