• Chapel to hold multi-faith rally, parade

    In 1995 the Eielson chapel held a multi-faith, chapel rally and parade, the project was a great success for the Eielson community with hundreds of participants. This year, the chapel will put on another multi-faith chapel rally parade starting 10:30 a.m. Sept. 8 in the Aurora Club parking lot, and

  • Holiday Greetings Program to visit Eielson

    It may be a bit early to pull out the tinsel and pine cone wreaths to begin decorating for the holiday season, but it is time to get ready to participate in one of the most popular video segments in America during the holiday season. An Army and Air Force Hometown News Service holiday greetings team

  • Some detergents a hazard for ABUs

    Laundry additives known as "optical brighteners" should not be used for washing the Airman Battle Uniform. Laundry instructions for ABUs specify not using any laundry detergents that contain optical brighteners. Optical Brighteners make the ABU more detectable by night vision equipment and make the

  • 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