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  • 305th AMW teams take top honors at 2025 Mobility Vanguard

    U.S. Air Force Airmen of the 305th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, made a powerful showing at the 2025 Mobility Vanguard strategic evaluation held April 23-25 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, bringing home top honors among an elite international

  • Maintaining Higher Standards

    Tim Dill, performing the duties of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, speaks with personnel assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., May 2, 2025. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness helps to ensure high, uncompromising, and

  • Total Force team deploys mobile control tower

    In an example of Total Force Integration, active-duty Airmen, Sailors and Air National Guard teams successfully deployed and activated the Mobile Special Navigational Aid-7 tower at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey enhancing airfield capability and delivering critical training

  • MAG-49: Drill, sweat, repeat

    Marine Aircraft Group 49 Marines trained in weapons qualification, land navigation and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense as a part of routine training.

  • A needle in the haystack moment in our joint base history

    When Dr. Lindsey Hunter-Ellul called the joint base historian, all she had was her grandfather's DD Form 214, but didn't know much else about his military service. She hoped to find more information about him or perhaps a photo.

  • Shaping a new Airman identity through drone integration

    In a groundbreaking effort to enhance operational capabilities, the U.S. Air Force has launched a new initiative aimed at incorporating Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) into the training of Airmen across various career fields.The program began with an initial exercise this past November at

  • Why we train: Operation Honey Badger

    Unlike the previous iteration of this training exercise, which was simulated to take place during deployments, this year’s OHB brought the fight to the home front.

  • Chemical ordnance in your neighborhood? Call CARA

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — The legacy of past military activities of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey was highlighted when unexploded ordnance contractors executing a conventional unexploded ordnance project at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey discovered a MK II 75mm