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  • 32 ARS crew first to refuel new multinational C-17

    With Swedish and U.S. Air Force pilots in the cockpit, the first C-17 Globemaster III to belong to a 12-nation strategic airlift initiative topped off its gas tank in flight for the first time Friday while over the Atlantic, courtesy of a Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst tanker and crew. "It was

  • RODEO 2009: Air Force's newest mobile air shelter part of new event

    When disaster strikes, it is not always near an airfield. So, what happens when there is a contingency where the Air Force does not already have a command post? HELAMS happens. HELAMS, which stands for Hardside Expandable Light Air Mobile Shelter, is a command and control mobile air shelter designed

  • Small effort offers life-saving opportunity

    Joint Base personnel will have multiple opportunities to register for the C. W. Bill Young Department of Defense Bone Marrow Program during a registration drive here July 17 through Aug. 7. The DoD program maintains a database of potential marrow donors and matches them with any one of more than 500

  • SFS team hopes to secure win at Rodeo 2009

    Four members from the 87th Security Forces Squadron are among the more than 130 Airmen from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst competing in Rodeo 2009 at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 19-24. The 87th SFS team will be among more than 2,500 participants and 100 teams from Air Mobility Command

  • A life saved at lunch

    Airmen are trained to save lives on the battlefield. They are prepared to go into wartime situations where lives are on the line. The dining facility is perhaps one place one would not expect to find a life and death situation. This was not the case on June 19 at the Halverson Hall Dining Facility,

  • Ready for Rodeo: JB MDL teams prepare for competition

    More than 130 Airmen from JB MDL are preparing to head to McChord Air Force Base, Wash., July 18 for Rodeo 2009 -- Air Mobility Command's premiere mobility competition. The international competition focuses on improving worldwide air mobility forces' professional core abilities and features more

  • Military Health System embraces social media

    The Military Health System is one of the many Defense Department organizations embracing social networking in order to provide information to and receive feedback from servicemembers. Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, director of strategic communications for the Military Health System, detailed the

  • All active-duty, most Reserve components meet recruiting goals

    All active-duty military components met or exceeded their recruiting goals in June, with the Marine Corps adding the highest percentage of its target to its ranks, Defense Department officials here announced July 10. Military Reserve components, with the exception of the Army National Guard, also

  • Report urges timeline for tobacco-free military

    The military has come a long way from the time when it packaged cigarettes in with rations, but more must be done, according to an Institute of Medicine report. The report, titled "Combating Tobacco in Military and Veteran Populations," calls for Defense Department officials to set a timeline to