2nd Brigade welcomes new commander

Mission Spotlight 305th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron

Mission Spotlights are a weekly photo slideshow highlighting the mission of a unit. This week's Mission Spotlight focuses on the 305th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. The 305th AMXS performs organizational-level maintenance for all transient aircraft and the base's 16 assigned C-17A Globemasters.To

Commentary: Let us sing

Every morning in basic training we would recite the Airman's Creed and the Air Force song.It always gave me chills.Standing with my flight, my wingmen, we would cry out the verses - our voices echoing off the drill pad walls. It was our motivation to get through another day of training. We were

New flight center takes off

In the skies somewhere above the Middle East, several Black Hawk helicopters hover. Their doors open and American service members exit and swiftly descend by rope to the ground. They move in on high value targets of interest and confiscate their weapons, ammunition and intelligence.What helped to

Army Reserve mission provides medical training, community support

Members of the Army Reserve's 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support) and U.S. Navy Medical Corps participated in an Innovative Readiness Training mission at the 99th Regional Support Command's Equipment Concentration Site 99 here.Participants inventoried and packaged dental and optical kits during

Personnel experts enhance Reserve's service to Soldiers

The Army Reserve's 99th Regional Support Command hosted a two-day training event May 19-20 at the Maj. John P. Pryor Army Reserve Center here.The training was led by subject matter experts from the Army's Civilian Personnel Advisory Center located at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin."What we wanted to do was

Base law enforcement officials celebrate, educate during police week

The 87th Security Forces Squadron celebrated its members during National Police Week on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. May 11-15, 2015. National Police Week, which occurs each year during the week in which May 15 falls, recognizes the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers.

Team MDL cleans up

Service members have a wide range of jobs and responsibilities, especially on a base as large as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, but for a few hours on May 15, they all had the same job - base clean up.Colonels, chief master sergeants, privates, Airmen, Sailors and Soldiers alike, all spent the

Employers experience military life during Boss Lift

"CLEAR CONTACT," called Master Sgt. Jennifer Bowen, boom operator with the 108th Air National Guard, as the boom latched onto the receiver pilot's aircraft during a unique air-refueling mission.The regular aircrew were not on board for this flight, which was a simulated KC-135 Extender air-refueling

MFAP gives voice to military families

G.I. Bill. Thrift Savings Plan. Service Group Life Insurance.Vital initiatives like these are examples of quality-of-life improvements created through the Military Family Action Plan, a forum for service members, retirees and their families to voice issues and develop solutions to meet their