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  • Reserve augmentee positions available throughout AF, at JB MDL

    The Air Force Reserve is set to hire 1,600 augmentees throughout the Air Force with several positions available at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.Designed under one of several Reserve categories, individual mobilization augmentees do not serve in Reserve organizations, but instead are assigned to

  • Dix safety director cruises retirement highway after 44 years

    After 44-years of working and flying for the government, Leo Falanga, aviator turned safety director, was last reported seen on his motorcycle shortly after leaving Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst June 30 and heading down the road of retirement.Falanga, who first served in the Air Force with duty

  • NAVAIR honors 68 years of service

    Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst recently held a service at the Engineering Complex Quadrangle dedicating the Perry DiGiovanniantonio Conference Room 103 in Building 596. More than 100 current and former employees attended the dedication in honor of honor of DiGiovanniantonio,

  • Granite State Soldiers prepare for Iraq

    Soldiers from the New Hampshire Army Reserve unit, the 94th Military Police Company dotted the I's and crossed the T's as they conducted their final preparations for a deployment to Iraq June 22."Everyone is trained and ready to deploy. The morale is the highest it's been in years and the Soldiers

  • 87 LRS, 305 MXS bring World Trade Center steel

    On the morning of September 11, 2001, Maj. Elizabeth Clay, previously the 305th Maintenance Squadron commander, sat on a bench outside the Pentagon. She heard the roar of a jet in the distance and stood, expecting to see two fighter jets en route to a fly-by over Arlington National Cemetery. She

  • JB MDL Airman rescues baby from blazing fire

    For Senior Airman John Muirhead, 87th Civil Engineer Squadron, Fire Department, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, rescuing others comes as second nature.While off-duty and visiting a friend from the Jamesburg fire department July 2, Muirhead, an Air Force fire fighter; whose hometown is Bloomfield,

  • Online program helps military families vote absentee

    Defense Department officials launched an Internet-based program June 28 to help servicemembers and other Americans living overseas vote more easily in November's elections. The new online voting assistant at www.fvap.gov will make the registration and absentee ballot application process "quick,

  • Aviation fuel savings: AMC leads the charge

    Air Mobility Command has the largest fleet of the biggest airframes in the Air Force and they are the Department of Defense's largest aviation fuel customer consuming 28 percent of DODs energy use, but AMC is leading the charge in making energy a consideration in everything they do. During the third

  • VA announces new option for marking veterans' graves in private cemeteries

    Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran."For veterans not buried in a national or state veterans