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  • JB MDL Airman honored at Bergen County K-9 Veterans Day ceremony

    A group of military working dog handlers from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., were invited to attend the second annual K-9 Veterans Day celebration March 14, 2014, at the Bergen County Law and Public Safety Institute in Mahwah, N.J.The group, which is made up of eight handlers and four dogs,

  • KC-10 crew recounts highlights of deployment, OEF missions

    Aircrew assigned to the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron flew more than 200 missions and offloaded more than 23 million pounds of fuel to over 1,300 U.S. and coalition aircraft providing close air support for Airmen and joint personnel in Afghanistan last month. Nearly half of the

  • Coast Guard team supports EPA partners

    The US Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team (AST) never has a "normal" mission and last week's deployment was no different. Though the team specializes in Hazardous Material and Oil Spill Response, their skill set is varied and often gets requests for other events. From March 11-13, the AST was called

  • Patriots make difference with pizza

    Soldiers serve their country every day. But, a photo posted on March 3, 2014, on social media of an anonymous First Army Soldier giving pizza to the homeless highlighted this commitment at the community level.The Soldier in the picture was Army Cpl. Derno McCary, observer-coach/trainer with the

  • JB MDL Hockey Team extinguishes Philadelphia Fire Dept

    The Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Hockey Team defeated the Philadelphia Fire Department Hockey Team 4-3 during the special non-season game March 6, 2014, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.The game's purpose was to highlight the revival of the JB MDL ice hockey program, which returned this

  • VR-64 wins DOD award for family readiness

    Department of Defense (DoD) officials presented the 2013 DoD Reserve Family Readiness Award to top units from each of the armed services during a ceremony at the Pentagon Hall of Heroes February 28. The Reserve Family Readiness Award, established in 2000, recognizes one National Guard and Reserve

  • NAVAIR commander visits JB MDL

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. - Vice Adm. David Dunaway, Commander of Naval Air Systems Command paid a visit to the workforce at NAVAIR Lakehurst at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on Tuesday, March 11.In his first visit in 2014, Dunaway spent an hour with the Lakehurst team at a

  • CSTX wraps up, medical soldiers bring battlefield treatment

    Operating in an austere environment, Army surgeons, doctors, nurses and technicians waited to treat a local national inside a combat support hospital injured as a result of an exploded improvised explosive device.For the Army Reserve soldiers of the 9th Medical Brigade's 865th Combat Support

  • 2nd ARS inaugurates new Ops Center

    The 2nd Air Refueling Squadron held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate a completed project in which they remodeled and reorganized their Operations Center Feb. 24, 2014, here.Members of the 2nd ARS teamed with the 305th Air Mobility Wing Innovation and Efficiency office, an agency dedicated to

  • NAVAIR Lakehurst employees judge high school science fair

    Five employees from NAVAIR's Lakehurst site volunteered as judges for the Lacey Township High School science fair.The science fair was hosted on Feb. 20 in the high school's library in Lanoka Harbor, N.J., and featured more than 100 participants. The NAVAIR Lakehurst judges -- William Borkowski,