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  • The Exchange promotes a healthier you in 2014

    The Army & Air Force Exchange Service continues to support the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Healthy Base Initiative through the Exchange's Operation Be Fit effort. Operation Be Fit is a program that offers healthier choices to authorized shoppers in the Exchange's Main Stores, Expresses,

  • JB MDL teen selected as N.J. Military Youth of the Year

    A Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., teen was selected as the Military Youth of the Year for the State of New Jersey. Selena Buchanan, daughter of Army Sgt. 1st Class Clint Buchanan, 174th Infantry Brigade, was nominated for the award through the Garden Terrace Youth Program. One of the

  • Pentagon announces upcoming changes to imminent danger pay

    The Defense Department announced Jan. 3, changes in imminent danger pay, or IDP, that will go into effect June 1, DOD spokesman Army Col. Steven Warren told reporters here. "This is a process that began (in 2011)," he said, and "included in-depth threat assessment from the combatant commands. It was

  • Joint base leaders serve up holiday dinner

    The joint base will be hosting its holiday meal celebrations Dec. 25, 2013, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the North and West Side dining facilities.   Leadership from across the base will take turns serving a holiday meal, for the fifth year as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, to service members

  • WWII vet receives delayed gratification

    John F. Flynn, World War II-era Army sergeant, was formally awarded the Bronze Star medal during a small ceremony Dec. 17, 2013, inside the U.S. Army Reserve Mobilization Museum here.Flynn, a Philadelphia native who currently resides in Egg Harbor, N.J., earned the medal Feb. 1, 1945, while serving