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  • 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

  • Education activity launches interactive resource

    The Department of Defense Education Activity's educational partnership has launched an interactive educational resource for military families, military leaders and school leaders.The resource, "Students at the Center," provides information on important policies, procedures, and best practices that

  • JB MDL Airman supports KC-10 maintenance efforts in Southwest Asia

    Airman 1st Class Garret Coleman is a KC-10 Extender integrated avionics systems apprentice for instrument and flight controls with the 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron's Extender aircraft maintenance unit at a non-disclosed base here.He is deployed from the 305th Aircraft

  • JB MDL NCO manages deployed police services

    When a security forces investigation takes place at a non-disclosed base here, Staff Sgt. James Dees is probably in the middle of it. As the noncommissioned officer in charge of police services for the 380th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, his job requires that he takes the lead in myriad

  • Safety office offers important steps to prepare for emergencies

    An emergency action plan is important to prepare families in the event an emergency strikes. It's important to have a plan and know how to execute it at anytime, whether it's a natural disaster like a hurricane or flood, or even something as devastating as a terrorist attack on the country. The

  • AMC ops deputy briefs on manning issues

    Joint base Airmen filled the McGuire Theater Monday for a briefing on the current force management initiative.Brig. Gen. Bradley Pray, Air Mobility Command deputy director of operations, visited the base to provide Airmen some insight into the purpose of force management and what programs are

  • JB MDL celebrates holiday at White House

    Fifty Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst members joined close to 30,000 Americans April 5 on the South Lawn of the White House for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. A tradition dating back to 1861, the Easter Egg Roll gives children the opportunity to visit their Nation's Capitol for a day of

  • JB MDL civilians officially transfer to Air Force pay system

    Former Army and Navy civilian employees who transferred to the Air Force Oct. 1, 2009 to stand-up Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will officially transfer to the Air Force Pay System database April 11.Until now, the civilian employees were paid under the Army and Navy Defense Finance and Accounting