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  • 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

  • JB Officials Release Annual Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Reports

    Joint base officials from the 87th Civil Engineering Group and Aerospace Medicine Squadron released the 2016 Consumer Confidence Report for the Lakehurst drinking water systems February 6, 2017.The CCR is a federally-mandated document summarizing annual drinking water testing results for public

  • 87th ABW All Call Questions and Answers

    How will they determine who will be “deployed” for the upcoming MOBEX?The determination of which 87 ABW personnel who will process for deployment in Phase I of the MOBEX, but not actually travel, was made by a fair-share division of UTCs across all Groups by the IG based on Group CC intent and

  • Airmen test after dark

    The 305th Air Mobility Wing and 87th Force Support Squadron teamed up to help swing and night shift Airmen take their physical fitness test at hours that better fit their schedules.At the standard PT testing times, night shift Airmen would be taking the evaluation after working a 12 hour shift.“It