• Volunteers needed to plant trees on base

    Volunteers needed Eielson's trees are truly a resource to be proud of. Eielson was the first tree city community within Alaska and recently celebrated it's 14th anniversary. As urban and native forests are actively managed to provide shade, wind breaks, color, fuel, as well as visual and sound

  • Airmen invited to 'Do Something Amazing'

    As part of the "Do Something Amazing" national advertising campaign, Air Force officials are offering Airmen the opportunity to submit videos showing Air Force members in action, and the best videos will be posted to the official Web site -- www.dosomethingamazing.com.  To submit a video for

  • Air Force's 'Knowledge Now' streamlines flow of information

    The Air Force now has a "virtual community" where individuals can go anytime to share information with their peers anywhere in the world. Called "Knowledge Now," this community is a collaborative Web system that is accessible through the Air Force Portal and is designed to allow Airmen of all ranks,

  • 50 slots available for nurse enlisted commissioning program

    An Air Force supplemental board is scheduled for October to select 50 additional candidates due to a shortfall in the number of qualified applicants for the Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program. Program officials are looking to fill those slots for the spring 2008 start date with Airmen who want to

  • Air Force makes changes to special duty assignment pay

    Air Force officials have made changes to the special duty assignment pay program as a result of an annual review, and cuts to the special and incentive pay budget. "Budgetary constraints dictated we think 'outside the box' to find equitable means of staying within our programmed budget," said Master

  • Thrift Savings Plan improves security measures

    The Thrift Savings Plan will begin using account numbers to improve individual account holder security effective in October. TSP officials will mail new account numbers to participants in September replacing the use of Social Security numbers as the primary means to identify current civilian and

  • Icemen show colors during base-wide ORE

    The men and women of the 354th Fighter Winger pulled together during Arctic Gold 07-06, an Operational Readiness Exercise used to validate the operational-readiness status of the wing. The main objectives for ARCTIC GOLD 07-06 evaluated the stand up of unit control centers, personnel accountability

  • Eielson family to be featured in video shown at Time Square

    A local Eielson family will appear on the big screen in Time Square on Sept. 30, 2007, as part of a 40-minute video presentation by the National Down Syndrome Society that will be seen on the Newscorp Astrovision. Eight-month old Kalleigh Young, daughter of Judy and Tech. Sgt. Daniel Young, 354th

  • Servicemembers, families to donate plasma Sept. 12

    The 354th Medical Group will be conducting a bone marrow drive 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 12 at the clinic laboratory. The marrow drive is to support the C.W. Bill Young DoD Marrow Donor Program. In the past, registration included a blood draw, but with technological advances only a cheek swab