Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Directory
Anchorage, AK
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) is located in Southcentral, Alaska, amid picturesque, majestic, snow-capped mountains, lakes, rivers and glaciers. The area abounds with wildlife.
The mission at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is to support and defend U.S. interests in the Pacific and around the world by providing units capable of worldwide air power projection and to meet Pacific Command's theater staging and throughput requirements.
JBER also provides early entry battle command capability and acts as the Joint Force Land Component Commander for homeland defense and civil support in Alaska. It is prepared to deploy rapidly in the Pacific theater and elsewhere in support of contingency operations, Pacific Command objectives and U.S. national interests. There is a population of approximately 8,000 military personnel at each of the two locations: Fort Richardson and Elmendorf AFB.