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  • Can Do wing, global partners streamline C-17 operations

    Personnel from the 305th Air Mobility Wing, U.S. Air Force leaders and Boeing Co. representatives hosted the C-17 Globemaster III Enterprise Home Station Check Lean Event here, June 18. The Air Force-wide enterprise event brought together everyone affiliated with the C-17 missions and worked to

  • JB MDL leaders commemorate 76th Battle of Midway celebration

    Leaders from the 305th Air Mobility Wing hosted the Battle of Midway 76th Commemoration at the Westfield Hangar here, June 5.      The commemoration is a celebration of the victory during World War II June 4-7, 1942, and is considered the turning point during World War II in the seas and air near

  • Local high school students explore STEM

    High school students from the local community visited the joint base on April 11 to see firsthand how the military utilizes science, technology, math and engineering every day.   The fifth annual STEM Exposition saw participation from nearly 360 students involved in STEM classes at their schools.

  • Child Abuse Prevention Month - When Discipline Becomes Physical Abuse

    The most common questions I receive from parents are; “Can I spank? What should I do for discipline? What am I “allowed” to do?”   Let’s start by reviewing some definitions: My favorite definition of discipline comes from Merriam Webster: training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental

  • Joint Base MDL conducts MARE prior to airshow

    In preparation for the upcoming air show, service members here recently practiced a major accident response exercise, April 10.   The exercise was designed to gauge the joint base’s swift and sure response to a simulated emergency situation. Search and rescue personnel and emergency management from

  • Joint Base MDL conducts mobility exercise

    Airmen from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst participated in an annual mobility exercise here from Feb. 28 to March 10 in order to hone their skillsets in a simulated deployed environment.   The exercise was conducted at JB MDL and enabled the 87th Air Base Wing, 305th Air Mobility Wing and 621st

  • Innovation proposal selected as Spark Tank nominee

    Airmen of the 305th Operations Support Squadron submitted an innovation proposal that was selected as a Spark Tank final nominee. In October, all major commands were asked to come up with ideas to streamline processes in the Air Force and to then solicit those innovative suggestions to compete at

  • 87 CES removes snow on flightline

    A snow blower clears the flight line near a KC-10 Extender at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Jan. 5, 2018. After receiving over 6 inches of snow, the 87th Civil Engineer Squadron snow teams work through the weekend to clear the snow.

  • Aerial porters own the night

    Under a rainy midnight sky, members of the 305th Aerial Port Squadron practiced loading cargo onto a blacked-out C-17 Globemaster III with the assistance of night vision goggles here, Nov. 30, 2017. The training, designed to mimic reality in a deployed environment, provided porters the skills