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  • AFSA Chapter 211 honors McGuire members

    The Air Force Sergeant Association Garden State Chapter 211 recognized its top performers during the annual honors and installation banquet March 26 at The Club. "The annual honors banquet is an opportunity for active-duty Airmen, retirees and civilians throughout the area to come together to

  • 2 become 1: MSS, SVS merge into 87th FSS

    The 87th Mission Support Squadron and 87th Services Squadron will merge to form the 87th Force Support Squadron during a ceremony April 3, 3 p.m., at the McGuire golf course. Lt. Col. John Clark, 87th SVS commander, will become the first 87th FSS commander. Lt. Col. Christopher Wyckoff, 87th MSS

  • 621st CRW brings mobility support to large-scale disaster relief exercise

    If an earthquake triggered a tsunami that wiped out the southern coast of Puerto Rico, who would you call? To help answer that question, more than 80 Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing here deployed to eight locations throughout Puerto Rico and the outlying island of St. Thomas, and

  • McGuire goes ‘green’ with solar panel installation

    Continuing efforts to go "green," reduce energy cost and consumption, and become an energy-neutral base by 2015, McGuire recently completed two solar panel installation projects. The first of the projects was a 14 kilowatt installation at the McGuire Library that was commissioned in February and the

  • McGuire MXG Airmen named top military team in competition

    Five aircraft maintenance Airmen from McGuire AFB took top military honors at the Aircraft Maintenance Technician Society's second annual Maintenance Skills Competition in Las Vegas, Nev., March 9-12. The team of Airmen from the 305th and 514th Maintenance Groups placed fifth overall in the

  • History told by a hero

    "Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but beggared the nation that has them and forgets." -Anonymous The United States is rich in heroes, and though it took 56 years, it remembered one of its own March 22 in an awards ceremony at Timmermann Center. Tech. Sgt. (ret.) Charles E. Wentzell, age 86, of

  • Course trains Air Force intelligence analysts in ground combat operations

    Air Force intelligence analysts have been trained to focus on air threats since they first entered the service. There's now a need for them to be trained to provide support for world-wide ground combat and force protection operations. The Air Force Force Protection Intelligence Formal Training Unit

  • Senior leaders meet for high-level 'Warfighter Talks'

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Air Force leadership hosted Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead and senior naval leaders for the Navy-Air Force Warfighter Talks March 18 at Bolling Air Force Base, D.C. About 35 flag and general officers from both services gathered for a