Soldiers train with best to prepare for worst

Mission Spotlight: 87th Medical Operations Squadron

Mission Spotlights are a weekly photo slideshow highlighting the mission of a unit. This week's Mission Spotlight focuses on the 87th Medical Operations Squadron. The 87th MDOS provides patient care, preventative medicine, treat sicknesses and injuries for all service members and their dependents on

Soldiers learn to advance careers as Army nurses

After eight years serving as a combat medic then Staff Sgt. Clinton Bunker decided to advance in his career and obtain his nursing degree and become an Army officer. As a nurse in the U.S. Army, 1st Lt. Bunker, now works in the intensive care unit at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital on Fort

108th boom operators get vital new training tool

Up a short stair case and inside an unassuming rectangular box, you can imagine being in the air and preparing for a refueling mission. All that is missing is the roar of a KC-135 Stratotanker engine."This is as realistic as it can get," said Senior Master Sgt. Michael Sylvester, 141st Air Refueling

NDI: Seeing the unseen

They're known as the NDI shop and its Airmen have a simple mission: Make the invisible, visible.The job of making sure the 108th Wing's KC-135R Stratotankers are structurally and mechanically sound falls on the four Airmen of the Non-Destructive Inspection shop. They take safety seriously.The Air

Chapel survey strives to further base relationship

The Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Chaplain's Office has recently released the 2015 Community Ministry Needs Assessment Survey link for joint base members.The survey is short and anonymous. Though participation in the survey is voluntary, responses are encouraged to help shape the development of

Red Tail Angels: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen

Prior to World War II, the situation for African-American aviators was even more grim than their counterparts in the other services.The Army Air Corps had completely barred blacks from their ranks while the other services assigned blacks only the most menial of duties. The basis for this decision

Snow-thing can stop Team MDL

From the 87th Civil Engineer and Security Forces Squadrons to the 305th Maintenance Group and 8th Airlift Squadron, personnel from two joint bases worked together during Winter Storm Thor March 5, 2015 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. Dirt Boys, police officers, aircraft maintainers

Our job never stops

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. - "You have to have a want and need to make a difference," said Senior Master Sgt. Julie Schechter, the 108th Wing Command Post superintendent. "There is no room for error in this job. It is too critical to do otherwise."The 108th Wing Command Post Airmen work

Furry Angels bring joy, healing to JB MDL

When someone gets sick, doctors can prescribe all the medicine in the world but sometimes the best medicine is a smile. That's what the Bright and Beautiful Therapy Dogs, commonly called Furry Angels, provide to patients at the clinic on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.As volunteer