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  • Service member spotlight: broadens horizons

    Petty Officer 1st Class Eric Tomaszewksi, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team electrician's mate, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Tomaszewksi hails from Hoyleton, Ill.Q: Why did you join the military?A: The military offered me an opportunity to serve my country, obtain an

  • Army Reserve ambassador helps citizen Soldiers celebrate 105th birthday

    Service members and civilians celebrated the Army Reserve's 105th birthday, April 23, 2013, with a morning road march and cake-cutting ceremony on Sharp Field here.The ceremony was hosted by Col. Jeffrey A. Doll, Army Support Activity-Dix commander, and featured remarks by retired Brig. Gen. Alan V.

  • ‘There and back again’ – The 305th AMW story

    B-17 Flying Fortresses, loaded to the gills with bombs, fill the sky. The crews flying these legendary aircraft fly in formation over Nazi-occupied Europe with one goal: drop the payload and return home unscathed. The 305th Bomb Group's singular mission was to drop bombs on enemy assets. The 305th

  • NLHS helps base remember USS Akron

    Community members and Naval Support Activity Lakehurst Sailors attended a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the loss of the USS Akron April 4, 2013 at the Grand Army Memorial Park here. Carl Jablonski, Navy Lakehurst Historical Society president, opened the ceremony and asked Lt. Cmdr.

  • AMC activates electronic program for base visit requests

    Air Mobility Command officials implemented an online program April 22, 2013, to streamline the approval process for official visitors and command sponsored guests at all AMC active-duty bases including here.The Electronic Gatekeeper (E-GK) program is designed through a partnership between the AMC

  • Joint base Airmen take part in family affair

    Family separation is a challenge service members will face during a deployment. The Aerial Port Flight at the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing avoided the family separation challenge by deploying with their family."We have a flight of about 85 people with an air terminal operations section, cargo

  • Joint Base to issue Gold Star IDs

    Base authorities will begin issuing Gold Star installation access cards to eligible family members of fallen service members May 1, 2013, here.Family members who are eligible to receive the ID are parents, siblings, stepsiblings, stepparents and grandparents of fallen service members.The goal of the

  • CA, Psyop Soldiers train at JB MDL

    A group of Army Reserve Soldiers comprising military occupation specialties such as ammunition specialists, infantry and finance all have one thing in common. They are all here attending one of two courses: the civil affairs or the psychological operations reclassification course. More than 90

  • Holocaust survivor recounts experience to joint base community

    Joint base community members attended the Candlelight Remembrance and Holocaust Remembrance Luncheon April 16, 2013, at Tommy B's Community Activities Center here. The luncheon was one of the culminating events in Days of Remembrance celebration. The event featured guest speaker Charles Middleberg,

  • If it isn’t you, it’s the person next to you

    "Hey sexy... you single?"I turned to see a fellow Airman in training; standing about five foot eight, dark hair and eyes. Over the next four months, I heard my fellow classmate repeat the same line more than a couple dozen times. It wasn't just me that he had an eye for; it was a handful of my new