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  • JB MDL Safety Office talks fatigued driving

    Fatigued driving is best explained as driving when tired or sleepy. Driving while fatigued can have serious consequences. First, fatigue impairs your ability to safely perform even basic-driving tasks. It decreases reaction time, affects judgment and can result in erratic-driving behavior. There are

  • Additive Manufacturing makes headway at NAVAIR Lakehurst

    Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has been quite the buzzword lately. From the printing of biomedical implants, to firearms, to high-fashion, the topic has received an interesting amount of recent press for a not-so-nouveaux technology (3D printing first debuted in the 80s).Fast forward

  • Convoy lanes wrap up Operation Sustainment Warrior 2014

    As the first iteration of Operation Sustainment Warrior 2014, an event hosted by the 655th Regional Support Group at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., comes to an end, Soldier participants conclude their training with one last training event: convoy lanes.Throughout the first iteration of OSW,

  • AMCTES welcomes new commander

    The Air Mobility Command Test and Evaluation Squadron offered a heartfelt farewell to Lt. Col. Randall B. Sealy as he relinquished command to Lt. Col. Travis D. Sjostedt. In the centuries-old tradition of the change of command ceremony, the flag is passed, allegiances bestowed and a new day of

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • Exchange senior enlisted advisor visits JB MDL

    The Senior Enlisted Advisor for the Army & Air Force Exchange Service visited Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst July 22-25, 2014.During his visit, Chief Master Sgt. Tony Pearson toured Exchange facilities, met with Airmen, Soldiers and community members and addressed how the Exchange can serve them

  • OSW 2014 Soldiers learn combat medicine

    U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers received crucial Combat Life Saver training as a part of Operation Sustainment Warrior 2014. OSW 2014 is a training event hosted by the 655th Regional Support Group out of Chicopee, Massachusetts (a subordinate unit of the 377th Theater Sustainment Command) from July 20

  • First Army's 'Bold Shift' to focus on pre-mob training

    In addition to running mobilization sites, First U.S. Army has been given the mission of focusing on pre-mobilization training of the National Guard and Army Reserve.This change will result in fewer contractors involved in pre-mob training, said Lt. Gen. Michael S. Tucker, commander, First Army,

  • Army’s CSF2 program encourages spouses to take GAT

    Now through October, the Army's Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) program is conducting a campaign to encourage Army spouses to take the Global Assessment Tool (GAT 2.0).The GAT 2.0 is a confidential, online, self-assessment tool that provides users with scores for their individual

  • 621st CRW welcomes new commander

    Col. James A. Copher took the reins of the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Col. Martin A. Chapin in a change of command ceremony at the Global Reach Deployment Center here, July 24.Copher came to the 621st CRW from Southwest Asia, where he served as the vice wing commander of the 380th Air