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Joint Base MDL Pharmacist receives Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award

U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Hughes, 87th Medical Group commander, grants Alan Farquharson, 87th MDG pharmacist, with a Commander’s coin, while posing for a picture along with his wife, Ann-Marie Farquharson, at the 87th MDG facility, July 30, 2021, on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The ceremony recognizes and awards Farquharson for contributing twenty-eight years in serving the Joint Base MDL community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Daniel Barney)

Aug. 4, 2021 - Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst congratulated Alan Farquharson, 87th Medical Group pharmacist, with the Outstanding Civilian Career Service Award for contributing twenty-eight years of service within the Joint Base MDL...

ASA training ranges undergo maintenance

Range support personnel perform fire break maintenance at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Aug. 29, 2021. Fire break maintenance is conducted biannually to provide continuous maintenance and clearance of unexploded ordnance hazards at Army Support Activity, Dix, training ranges. The training ranges encompass approximately 15,000 acres in size and have been the primary impact area for all munitions utilized at ASA, Dix, for 100 years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Azaria E. Foster)

Aug. 3, 2021 - Range support personnel perform fire break maintenance at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Aug. 29, 2021. Fire break maintenance is conducted biannually to provide continuous maintenance and clearance of unexploded...

Army Chaplain Corps Celebrates Birthday

Soldiers and Airmen attend an Army Chaplain Corps birthday ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 29, 2021. The ceremony involved a history of the Chaplain Corps, singing of the Army Chaplain Song and a traditional cake cutting.

July 30, 2021 - Soldiers and Airmen attended a ceremony for the Army Chaplain Corps birthday at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 29, 2021. The ceremony involved a history of the Chaplain Corps, singing of the Army Chaplain Song...

The Sky, The Limit

U.S. Air Force Maj. Justin Recklau, Aerospace and Operational Physiology director, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, stands for a photo while observing flight-line renovation from within the 32nd Air Refueling Squadron, JB MDL, N.J., July 19, 2021. Recklau is preparing for his career-field to transition from the medical to the operational Air Force career designation later this year. Immersion into the aircrew environment is expected to benefit physiological concerns, or human-factors, like fatigue throughout the Air Force. The transition is also relevant to JB MDL, with the upcoming aircraft evolution from the KC-10 to the KC-46 Pegasus, as the expectations on human performance are notably different. (U.S. Air Force photo and layout design by Tech. Sgt. Austin Knox)

July 27, 2021 - JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- By 1914, the world’s militaries began to see the value of the new flying machine.The mishap rate in that first year was abysmal. The British discovered that out of 100 aircraft...

Soldiers celebrate ASA birthday

U.S. Army Col. Jon Brierton, Army Support Activity, Dix, commander, speaks during a ceremony at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 16, 2021. Dix was established as Camp Dix July 16, 1917 and used as a reception and training station for the Civilian Conservation Corps until 1939 and Army basic combat training until 1990. Today it is responsible for providing training opportunities to build readiness throughout the Joint Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Azaria E. Foster)

July 16, 2021 - Army Support Activity, Dix, celebrated its birthday at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., July 16, 2021. Dix was established as Camp Dix July 16, 1917 and used as a reception and training station for the Civilian...

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Military Justice Summary - June, July 2021

(U.S. Air Force graphic by Jacob Mosolf)

Aug. 5, 2021 - A summary of the 341st Missile Wing’s courts-martial and nonjudicial punishments: 1 June 2021 – 31 July 2021...

SA Innovation Summit takes on ‘accelerating change’

Marc Vandeveer, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center chief innovation officer, gives opening remarks at the San Antonio Innovation Summit Aug. 3, 2021, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. The event, a partnership between the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, Air Force Personnel Center, Air Education and Training Command, and AFWERX, brought innovation and collaboration opportunities to an expanded installation and mission support audience. (U.S. Air Force photo by Luke J. Allen)

Aug. 5, 2021 - With the theme of Accelerate Change, the Department of the Air Force pushed innovation forward during the inaugural San Antonio Innovation Summit Aug. 3-4 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center...

Drew ups HPCON to Bravo as local cases increase

The Health Protection Condition was increased to BRAVO at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, Aug. 5, 2021. (U.S. Air Force graphic by John Ingle)

Aug. 5, 2021 - Brig. Gen. Lyle Drew, 82nd Training Wing commander, bumped up the installation’s Health Protection Condition on August 5, 2021, from Alpha to Bravo as confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to rise in surrounding communities...

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Preparing to Lead

Victor Oluwagbemi, Boys & Girls Club of America Military Youth of the Year award winner for the state of New Jersey and Northeast region, addresses a panel of judges, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 6, 2021. With the help of club members, Oluwagbemi was able to design and distribute masks and T-shirts to create awareness of the effects of domestic and teen violence at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

July 20, 2021 - The Boys & Girls Club of America offers a Youth of the Year program, now in its 74th iteration, which honors the nation’s most awe-inspiring young people on their path to great futures. The program encourages all kids to...

Raven Team Member Wins Air Force 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Award

U.S. Air Force SrA Jamonica Smith, 87th Security Forces Squadron, Raven Instructor, poses next to a C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. on July 13, 2021. Smith emerged as the top nominee for Air Mobility Command and was awarded the national Outstanding Airman of the Year award. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Sabatino DiMascio)

July 19, 2021 - The Air Force has announced the 2021 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year award, to include JB MDL’s U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jamonica Smith, 87th Security Forces Squadron Raven Team Member. While on a mission in Africa, she...

Knowledge outweighs rank for National Guardsman in charge of AMC Phoenix Oracle project

Staff Sgt. Steven De Leon views an unclassified version of a geospatial web application depicting the measurement tool and threat analysis feature of the Phoenix Oracle website. The New Jersey Air National Guardsman is an intelligence analyst with the 204th Intelligence Squadron at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and has been named the chief lead of the team tasked to develop this Air Mobility Command-led web capability project.

July 13, 2021 - Intelligence analyst Guardsman is given lead position for AMC's Phoenix Oracle web capability development project...

Steady (Construction) Under Fire: Joint Exercise Develops Base Training Grounds

June 21, 2021 - Members of the U.S. Army Reserve 668 Engineer Vertical Construction Company, 854 Engineer Battalion, and 306th Engineer Company along with the U.S. Air Force’s 201st Red Horse Detachment 1 took part in the Castle Installation...

NSA Lakehurst eases JB MDL families separation

A Sailor from Naval Support Activity, Lakehurst, participates in the United Through Reading program. (Courtesy photo)

June 20, 2021 - The impact of military service is not limited to just service members. Loved ones back home also make great sacrifices when one of their family members raises their hand to serve. However, the Naval Support Activity,...