• A home away from home

    Stepping into the lobby it smells like coffee, people are everywhere. The snack store is busier than usual while phones are ringing off the hook in the background. Employees of the Gold Rush Inn are usually busy, but when occupancy rates nearly triple within a few days timespan, they know it’s RED

  • Some IDs may be invalid starting Aug. 15

    Individuals will no longer be allowed unescorted access to Air Force installations with a state-issued identification card or driver’s license from Minnesota, Missouri, Washington or American Samoa beginning Aug. 15.

  • Kunsan, Misawa Airmen integrate to save funds, hours

    With budgets under constant constraint and fluctuation in manning, even at home stations, Airmen have to be creative to save tax payer’s dollars while keeping Airmen rested to maintain top performance in life saving missions.Maintenance Airmen from Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, and Misawa AB,

  • Army, AF integrate first ever space aggressor soldier in RF-A 16-3

    Finding a camouflaged enemy to “find, fix and finish,” can be difficult even in the best conditions. Add in the element of 14,000-foot peaks, dense vegetation and a 67,000 square-mile battlefield and takes a trained warrior to pick out the needle in this haystack.With no GPS to guide a fighter

  • RF-A 16-3 brings nations, joint training together

    RED FLAG-Alaska 16-3, a Pacific Air Forces-sponsored, Joint National Training Capability accredited exercise, officially started Aug. 4 with familiarization day, followed by 10 days of simulated combat sorties.Originally operated under the name COPE THUNDER, the exercise moved to Eielson in 1992

  • ‘Aim High’: Airman stands on top of continent

    At 20,308 feet above sea level, Denali is considered one of the most challenging peaks to conquer in the world. Thousands of people have tried, and failed, to reach the top. On June 16, 1st Lt. Andrew Heard, the 354th Contracting Squadron services and commodities flight commander, climbed the

  • TACP Airmen raise the bar at Cascade Challenge 2016

    Walking through terrain consistent to a wet sponge for hours that seemed like days; their boots are soaked and feet pruned.Dehydration sets in and cramping starts, but they keep going one step at a time because they know the pain is only temporary and there is a competition to be won.

  • Eielson student pursues dreams: wins $50,000 scholarship

    Countless hours of homework, extra-curricular activities and many nights spent filling out applications paid off for an Eielson student as she was awarded a Corvias Foundation scholarship of $50,000. Ally Vahalik, daughter of Master Sgt. Jerome Vahalik IV, the 354th Force Support Squadron first