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  • Home You're Proud Of season kicks off

    Eielson's best-kept yards will be the focus of local inspectors during the "Home You're Proud Of" season. The program begins in June and continues through August with a grand prize winner in September. The program is designed to foster morale in our community and improve the appearance of our living environment. In the competition, five judges

  • PACAF leads way in Air Force's anthrax vaccine push

    Pacific Air Forces' implementation of the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program is off to a good start. Since the program was ordered to resume under the direction of the deputy secretary of defense in October, PACAF has immunized more than 94 percent of its Airmen who have been designated for mandatory vaccinations. The program is well underway,
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Staff Sgt. Manuel Sanchez (Right) goes over safety instructions to Airman 1st Class Jeremy Woods (Left) and Senior Airman Shasta Eichler (Back) prior to the Weapons Standardization Load Crew of the Quarter Competition on April 20. The Competition evaluates technical proficiency, safety procedures and overall time. The 18th AMU's overall time was 16 minutes. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman Jonathan Snyder)

    Lock and Load

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon, 64th Aggressor Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nev., sits in pre-contact position awaiting to receive fuel from a KC-10 extender over the Pacific Alaska Range Complex on April 18 during Red Flag-Alaska 07-1. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. It is conducted on the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex with air operations flown out of Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan Snyder) (Released)

    Wings over Alaska

  • EIEL SON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska--Staff Sgt. Dave Torrance, 210th Rescue Squadron Detachment 1 flight engineer, prepares to lower a hoist to lift a pararescuemen during a combat search and rescue mission April 17. Red Flag-Alaska exercises help enhance combat training for U.S. military and coalition forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justin Weaver).

    Alaska range, airspace critical to combat training

    Ejecting out of a fighter jet at more than 400 miles an hour, aircrew members have one objective--to make it to the ground alive. For an F-15 fighter pilot and his navigator, the combat search and rescue training scenario during Red Flag-Alaska 07-1 stranded them with severe injuries on the expansive Pacific Alaskan Range Complex. The 210th Rescue
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Members of Strike Fighter Squadron Eight Seven (VFA-87) perform maintenance on a Navy F/A-18 during Red Flag-Alaska 07-1. VFA-87 is home based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. It is conducted on the Pacific Alaskan Range Complex with air operations flown out of Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force Bases. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt Joshua Strang)

    Virginia sailors visit Eielson to work with joint service, experience Alaska

    Joint and coalition combat operations are prevalent in today's world and exercises such as Red Flag-Alaska are vital training opportunities structured to achieve success and cohesiveness in real-world missions. Although the fight here at Red Flag-Alaska 07-1 is simulated, U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron Eight Seven's (VFA-87) trip to participate
  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- Major Argyle (left), KC-10 Aircraft Commander, and Captain Capodicasa, KC-10 pilot, 78th Air Refueling Squadron, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey fly over the Pacific Alaska Range Complex here as call sign "Shaman Five One" during a refueling mission on 18 April in support of Red Flag-Alaska 07-1. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Strang)

    Flight of Shaman Five One

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- An F-16C, 18th Fighter Squadron "Blue Foxes", Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, pulls in to refuel during a mission here on 18 April in support of Red Flag-Alaska 07-1. The 18th Fighter Squadron conducts air operations for combat-ready F-16 aircraft, working closely with 355th Fighter Squadron to provide close air support, forward air control (airborne), battlefield air interdiction, and offensive counter air. Red Flag-Alaska is a Pacific Air Forces-directed field training exercise for U.S. forces flown under simulated air combat conditions. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Strang)

    Red Flag; Blue Foxes

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska--The sun sets on a group of F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 61st Fighter Squadron at Luke AFB, and a French Mirage 2000 sit on the flight line April 16 during Red Flag-Alaska 07-1. More than 1,300 military members from the United States, France and Australia have gathered in the Last Frontier to participate in Red Flag-Alaska 07-1 scheduled from April 5 to 21. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justin Weaver).

    Into the night

  • EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska--Senior Airman Richard Adamowich, 61st Fighter Squadron F-16 avionics journeyman, and Staff Sgt. Craig Bair, 61st FS F-16 crew chief, Luke AFB, Ariz., conduct preflight inspections on an F-16 April 13 here on the flightline. Airmen from the 61st FS are at Eielson in support of Red Flag-Alaska, a multi-service, multi-platform, combat-operations exercise involving the coalition forces of France and Australia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nora Anton)

    Cold weather can't stop desert-dwelling Airmen

    Working in a cold-weather environment may not be in the repertoire of desert-dwelling maintainers up here for Red Flag-Alaska 07-1, but these Luke Airmen don't seem to mind and they're not about to let it affect their mission. "To be honest, if it wasn't chilly here I would probably be disappointed," Staff Sgt. Craig Bair, 61st Fighter Squadron
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