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  • McGuire Airmen continue to support Haiti relief

    Air Force reservists from the 514th Air Mobility Wing here continue to provide aerial port and translator skills in Haiti for earthquake relief efforts. Members of the 35th and 88th Aerial Port squadrons arrived in Haiti in mid-February. Living on meals, ready to eat and residing in tents, the nine

  • All Services Meet or Exceed March Recruiting Goals

    The military services met or exceeded their March recruiting goals for the active and reserve components, Defense Department officials reported April 16.Also, officials said, retention is above the goals for the first six months of the fiscal year.The active Army signed up 6,615 recruits in March

  • SMA testifies to Congress on force stress, resilience

    The Army's senior enlisted advisor told members of Congress Wednesday that what keeps him awake at night is stress on the force.Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston testified to the House Appropriations Committee military construction subcommittee alongside his service counterparts from the

  • Gates adopts 26 Fort Hood panel recommendations

    Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has directed the Defense Department immediately to implement 26 interim recommendations of an independent panel he appointed to look into the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, Pentagon officials said April 19.Gates signed the memorandum April 12.Maj. Nidal

  • MCPON testifies quality of life

    The master chief petty officer of the Navy and senior enlisted leaders from all the services testified before Congress April 14. They appeared before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Military Construction.MCPON Rick D. West, along with the other top senior enlisted leaders from the

  • Virtual World prepares mobility Airmen for real mission

    Airmen preparing for the worldwide mobility mission of the 621st Contingency Response Wing here now have a powerful new training tool. A state-of-the-art virtual firearms training simulator with a 300-degree field of view is now being operated by the 819th Global Support Squadron to prepare CRW

  • Gates supports 'contiguous training' for Reserve components

    While admitting initial reservations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told a National Guard conference today he sees benefits of a new plan that allows reserve-component servicemembers to conduct pre-deployment training before the clock starts ticking on their 12-month mobilization cycles.Gates

  • PsyOps vital link to information

    While wars are fought largely with weapons and brute strength, Soldiers of the 17th Psychological Operation Battalion are training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to pass useful information to Iraqi and Afghani citizens.Such information packets provided by a psychological unit may range from

  • Navy tuition assistance transactions shift to 100% WebTA

    All Navy Tuition Assistance transactions will soon shift to an entirely online process accessible through the Navy College Program Web site's WebTA portal.Sailors applying for tuition assistance will be required to use WebTA to process all applications beginning April 15."WebTA allows Sailors to

  • KC-135 testing aims at fueling efficiency, cost savings

    Engineers at the Air Force Flight Test Center here are testing a system known as the Automatic Receiver Aircraft Identification, or ARAI. Currently installed on a test aerial refueler, if the tests are successful, they say, the system will significantly improve air-to-air refueling.The ARAI is