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  • Gold Star families honored with 11th annual ruck march

    Joint Base MDL hosted the 11th annual Gold Star Ruck March here, Oct. 7, 2017. The Gold Star Ruck March is an annual charity event benefiting Gold Star families across New Jersey. A Gold Star family is the family of a service member who has fallen while serving in the United States Armed Forces.“In

  • 305 AMW sends NJ task force to Virgin Islands

    Airmen from the 305th Air Mobility Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst partnered with the New Jersey State Police and Emergency Medical Services Task Force to transport first responders and equipment to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria, Oct. 1, 2017.  

  • Water, food loaded onto C-130 at Dobbins, bound for Puerto Rico

    Hurricane relief efforts continued on the Dobbins flightline as forklifts and K-loaders loaded cases of water and ready-to-eat meals onto a C-130 Hercules Oct. 4. Aerial porters from squadrons at Dover, March, McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and Westover worked together to load a Mansfield Air National Guard

  • 305th MXG improves C-17 engine change processes

    The 305th Maintenance Group, Boeing representatives and foreign partner nations United Kingdom and Australian military services joined together for a workshop at the C-17 Globemaster III Engine Change Lean Event here Sept. 18 – 22.The Boeing Sustaining Engineering and Fleet Performance Team

  • POWs honored at POW/MIA Recognition Day luncheon

    Men and women of Joint Base MDL came together to observe POW/MIA Recognition Day at Tommy B’s Community Activity Center, Sept. 14.Air Force Sergeants Association Garden State Chapter 211 held a hat laying ceremony and luncheon to honor two Vietnam prisoners of war, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot Lt.

  • CFD: Community practices four pillars of fitness

    The Joint Base MDL community came together to practice the four pillars of fitness during this year’s Comprehensive Fitness Day, Sept. 14.   The four pillars of the Air Force’s comprehensive fitness plan are physical, spiritual, mental and social fitness. Service members from all branches and

  • JB MDL celebrates 70 years of air power

    Airmen from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst celebrated the Air Force’s 70th birthday, here, Sept. 15 at the Air Force Ball. The annual event celebrates another year as the world’s greatest Air Force, this one a milestone, marking seven decades as its own branch of service and how far it has come

  • AMC crew earns humanitarian award

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- An aircrew from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, was recognized at the Air Force Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference here Sept. 18, 2017.The aircrew, assigned to the 6th Airlift Squadron, received the Berlin Airlift Veterans Association Humanitarian

  • Never forget: first responder legacy lives on

    The Joint Base MDL community remembered the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 during a ceremony here, Sept. 11, 2017.   Fire Station 4, home of the Joint Base MDL 9/11 Memorial, acted as the communal point for those paying their respects. The grounds are