Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is a United States military facility adjacent to Anchorage

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

, the largest city in Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

. It is an amalgamation of the former United States Air Force Elmendorf Air Force Base

Elmendorf Air Force Base

Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson is a United States military facility adjacent to Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. It is an amalgamation of the former United States Air Force Elmendorf Air Force Base and the United States Army Fort Richardson, which were merged in 2010.-Overview:The...

 and the United States Army Fort Richardson, which were merged in 2010.
The facilities, which have always shared the same relative geographic position, were officially combined by the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission.