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  • JB MDL Airman rescues baby from blazing fire

    For Senior Airman John Muirhead, 87th Civil Engineer Squadron, Fire Department, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, rescuing others comes as second nature.While off-duty and visiting a friend from the Jamesburg fire department July 2, Muirhead, an Air Force fire fighter; whose hometown is Bloomfield,

  • Online program helps military families vote absentee

    Defense Department officials launched an Internet-based program June 28 to help servicemembers and other Americans living overseas vote more easily in November's elections. The new online voting assistant at www.fvap.gov will make the registration and absentee ballot application process "quick,

  • Aviation fuel savings: AMC leads the charge

    Air Mobility Command has the largest fleet of the biggest airframes in the Air Force and they are the Department of Defense's largest aviation fuel customer consuming 28 percent of DODs energy use, but AMC is leading the charge in making energy a consideration in everything they do. During the third

  • VA announces new option for marking veterans' graves in private cemeteries

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran."For veterans not buried in a national or state veterans