Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
Part of Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) United States Army Alaska
Located in: Anchorage, Alaska
F-22 Raptors of the 3rd Wing at Elmendorf-Richardson
4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division
JB Elmendorf-Richardson
Coordinates	61°15′05″N 149°48′23″W / 61.25139°N 149.80639°W / 61.25139; -149.80639 (JB Elmendorf-Richardson)Coordinates: 61°15′05″N 149°48′23″W / 61.25139°N 149.80639°W / 61.25139; -149.80639 (JB Elmendorf-Richardson)
Site information
Controlled by	United States Air Force
Site history
Built	1940
In use	2010–present
Garrison information
Garrison	673d Air Base Wing

Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson (IATA: EDF, ICAO: PAED, FAA LID: EDF), or J-Bear as it is known to most military members, is a United States military facility in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force's Elmendorf Air Force Base and the United States Army's Fort Richardson, which were merged in 2010.

The adjacent facilities were officially combined by the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Its mission is to support and defend U.S. interests in the Asia Pacific region and around the world by providing units who are ready for worldwide air power projection and a base that is capable of meeting PACOM's theater staging and throughput requirements.

It is the home of the Headquarters, Alaskan Command (ALCOM), Alaskan NORAD Region (ANR), Joint Task Force-Alaska (JTF-AK), Eleventh Air Force (11 AF), the 673d Air Base Wing, the 3rd Wing, the 176th Wing and other Tenant Units.

Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson (JBER), holds the distinction of being one of 12 Joint Bases that were created in BRAC 2005. The 673d ABW consists of four groups that operate and maintain the joint base for air sovereignty, combat training, force staging and throughput operations in support of worldwide contingencies.