Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) will break ground this summer on a new state-of-the-art training center, a priority I’ve been pressing for many years in the Senate as a member of the Armed Services Committee. As I told Jonson Kuhn on Alaska’s News Source, the Joint Integrated Test and Training Center (JITTC) will improve our military’s ability to test our forces’ capabilities and vulnerabilities, and greatly enhance the effectiveness of our world-class Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (

At Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, Alaska, the 773rd Logistics Readiness Squadron’s Contingency Support Team (CST) stands ready to deliver mobility, sustainment, and logistics power anywhere the mission demands. Tasked with rapid deployment and expeditionary logistics, these Airmen build the bridge between planning and execution—establishing mobility hubs, coordinating movement control, and sustaining joint and coalition operations in austere and contested environments. From Arctic conditions t