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  • Motorcycle safety important for riders, non-riders

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Safety Office is taking on motorcycle safety with summer approaching and more and more riders hitting the road. Joint base leadership, along with base safety offices, has implemented a new motorcycle policy letter that applies to all personnel."Various riders from

  • Remembering Battle of Midway 69 years later

    Chief Petty Officer (ret.) Joseph L. Waller, local New Jersey resident, served upon the lone U.S. aircraft carrier sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942.The Battle of Midway showcased U.S. naval and air power in defending the Pacific island of Midway and regaining naval superiority over Japan

  • Bosses get Soldiers' treatment

    Forty corporate executives visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst May 18, to discover how Reserve military personnel will continue to train, even in the rain, for ongoing military operations around the world. Army Support Activity-Dix training personnel partnered with the Employee Support of the

  • Active shooter exercise strengthens joint-base security

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst spent much of June 2 on lockdown as the installation held an active shooter exercise for the second time within the last six months.The exercise tests the joint base's ability to respond to an active-shooter event, similar to the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, when a

  • MAG-49 takes huge step in efforts to 'go green'

    A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the beginning of a new chapter in Marine aviation and the end of a five-year Base Realignment and Closure process in Marine Aircraft Group 49's new hangar here May 13.MAG-49, Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772 and Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 moved