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  • Chaplain spends time helping others

    Chaplain Maj. Menashe Miller, 87th Air Base Wing Chapel, joined the Air Force to give back and serve his country.He always enjoyed volunteering and helping others. After college he decided becoming a chaplain would be the best route for him to give back.“Recently I received a community service award

  • Taking flight to new training

    Early in the morning February 9, 2017, in an unusual evolution,  a C-17 Globemaster III from the 14th Airlift Squadron and a KC-10 Extender from the 2nd Air Refueling Squadron took off together from Joint Base Charleston enroute to a first of its kind training opportunity at the United States Air

  • Joint Base hosts revolutionary U.S. navy testing

    The Joint Base recently hosted the F-35C Lightning II as the U.S. Navy continues its developmental test program on the Lakehurst-side of MDL from Feb 13 – 24.   Assigned to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, naval engineers and personnel from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force

  • Joint Base hosts technology expo

    Over 50 different companies with specialties ranging from 3-D printing to drone piloting, participated at the 2017 Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Technology Expo on March 9. The free expo is hosted annually to provide servicemembers a glimpse into some of the developing technologies that could

  • AFE cleans aircrew

    Aircrew Flight Equipment put together an Aircrew Contamination Control Area for crews landing in a simulated chemical environment during Crisis Response 17, here March 8.   C-17 Globemaster III crews and AFE teams from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, practiced critical skills needed in

  • DOD names Navy robotics engineer 'Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter'

    A Naval Air Systems Command engineer has been named the Department of Defense Laboratory Scientist of the Quarter for his research in using robotics to optimize workload and increase safety for Sailors on the flight deck.    Dr. James Hing, robotics science and technology engineer with the Naval Air

  • MDL air power combined at Crisis Response 17

    In a small building on the Combat Readiness Training Center here, leaders from across the 305th Air Mobility Wing, 87th Air Base Wing, 621st Contingency Response Wing and 514th Air Mobility work around the clock.   For the past six months, their job has been to work closely with the Joint Base MDL

  • CRW set up and tear down for Crisis Response 17

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing are trained to be the first in and the last out of a deployed location.   Often times when the order comes to deploy to a location where there is little to know Air Force presence, the 621st CRW will take the lead and arrive at that location,

  • MDL airpower trains for crisis response

    Airmen from the 305th Air Mobility Wing, 87th Air Base Wing, 621st Contingency Response Wing, and 514th Air Mobility Wing kicked off the operational readiness exercise Crisis Response 2017 on March 6. The CR17 is meant to demonstrate the mobility capabilities of JB MDL Airmen, deploying four wings

  • AMCTES Test Directors Awarded the 2016 NDIA Testers of the Year Awards

     Two Test Directors from the Air Mobility Command Test and Evaluation Squadron (AMCTES), a mission partner organization housed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ, have been awarded the 2016 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Air Force Testers of the Year Award.  Each year, the NDIA