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  • JB MDL helps servicemembers call home

    With more than 150,000 servicemembers serving overseas, keeping in touch with family and friends while deployed can be difficult.Members of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst are doing their part to increase communication between servicemembers and loved ones by participating in the Cell Phones for

  • Airmen, Soldiers join on Lakehurst for Eagle Flag exercise

    More than 140 Airmen and Soldiers worked together on a new concept during the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center's Eagle Flag exercise on Lakehurst April 12. Eagle Flag is the U.S. military's premiere exercise for validating logistics port-opening procedures in an expeditionary environment.The

  • 99th RSC kicks off Best Warrior Competition

    Eleven Soldiers from units encompassing the 99th Regional Support Command area of responsibility arrived at the Maj. John P. Pryor Armed Forces Reserve Center here to kick off the second 99th RSC Best Warrior Competition. Command Sgt. Maj. Kurtis Timmer, 99th RSC presided this year's competition.

  • Soldier journalists prepare to cover brethren

    The 196th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment is mobilizing here, conducting mock press conferences and preparing news stories for its upcoming deployment to Balad, Iraq, where it will support the 13th Expeditionary Support Command.This organization, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, is made up of 20

  • AFSA celebrates annual awards

    More than 70 members of the Air Force Sergeants Association Garden State Chapter 211 participated in the 2010 AFSA annual awards and installation banquet at the Tommy B's Community Activity Center here."The event was spectacular and had a great turnout," said Tech Sgt. Thomas Lyons, 305th Aerial

  • Don't be a target

    The risk of becoming an intelligence target increases greatly during foreign travel. As an American military member or government employee traveler with access to useful information, it is possible to become the target of foreign intelligence or security service anytime in any country. The threat is

  • Sailors, Coast Guardsmen train for Afghanistan, Pakistan Hands Program

    Sailors and Coast Guardsmen from across the country have entered into the final phase of their training here as they prepare to embark on their mission assignment to the Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands Program.The Af-Pak Hands Program was initiated by, and is under the direct oversight of, the Joint

  • JB MDL ‘green’ shoppers save more at AAFES stores

    The base exchange/post exchange is rewarding military shoppers who are doing their part for the environment through its new "Use a Bag, Save the Planet" initiative. Instead of using traditional plastic bags, retail facilities at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst main exchange are encouraging