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  • Talking about your generation: 305th AMW hosts generation exercise

    The 305th Air Mobility Wing hosted a 2-day generation exercise to assess Airmen’s ability to quickly and effectively perform aircraft maintenance and launch aircraft. The maintainers launched 10 aircraft during the 48-hour simulated operation and performed more than 6 hours of maintenance on each

  • Joint Base MDL gears up for Air Force Assistance Fund 2021 campaign

    Joint Base MDL Airmen are geared up for the 2021 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign. The campaign started this month and runs until April 16. The goal is to encourage Airmen to contribute donations toward affiliated AFAF charities that assist active duty, retired, enlisted, and officer Airmen and

  • 305th MXS trains battle-ready Airmen

    The 305th Maintenance Squadron partnered with an instructor from Hill Air Force Base, Utah to host the first Aircraft Battle Damage Evaluator course at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, March 15-19.The ABDE course equipped eight students with knowledge to make quick repairs, efficiently

  • Annual Trainees Clinic opens to reservists, guardsmen

    A clinic specific to the needs of reservists and guardsmen from the U.S. Army has opened its doors on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Annual Trainees Clinic has been a priority for leadership within the 87th Medical Group for over a year in order to provide on-base medical

  • Plasma on the Go: Supporting Operation Warp Speed

    With the insurgence of treatments to mitigate the spread of coronavirus throughout the United States, the Armed Forces Whole Blood Processing Laboratory East on Joint Base MDL is shipping plasma to support these efforts. ASWBPL-East’s project to shift this key product to the National Blood Stockpile

  • Air Force Assistance Fund Kickoff

    The annual JB MDL Air Force Assistance Fund campaign officially kicked off 8 March 2021 and will run through 16 April 2021!As many of you know, this campaign is for Airmen & Guardians, by Airmen & Guardians! There is no other all-hands effort like it across the Department of the Air Force. Only

  • The Tommy B. McGuire, Jr. Story

    Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., was born on 1 August 1920 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father, Thomas B. McGuire, Sr., owned a Packard automobile dealership in Paterson, New Jersey, and the family of Irish descent was fairly affluent during the Depression. After his parents separated, he moved with

  • COVID-19 Vaccines: Changing the course of the pandemic

    A coronavirus is a type of common virus that can cause illnesses such as the common cold, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). In early 2020, after a December 2019 outbreak in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified SARS-CoV-2 as new

  • New rates for ESM take effect 1 March

    The U.S. Air Force Services Center (AFSVC), Food, and Beverage Division (F&B) delivers innovative and quality customer service programs such as the Air Force Campus Dining System (CDS) at traditional Services Food & Beverage operations. AFSVC has collaborated with Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst