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  • Service member spotlight: it’s up to you

    Air Force Tech. Sgt. Carl Clegg, 108th Wing broadcast journalist, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Clegg hails from Riverside, N.J. Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the Marine Corps during Desert Storm. I felt it was my duty as a healthy young man to serve my

  • JB MDL Airman asks 'Where's the waste gone?'

    While in the sky or on the ground, humans must relieve themselves multiple times throughout the day, but when you're 20,000 feet above in a C-17 Globemaster III where does it all go? Enter the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron fleet services Airmen here."What we do is important because people

  • Service member spotlight: one big team

    Petty Officer 1st Class David Hamilton, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team response member, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Hamilton hails from Bennington, Vt.Q: Why did you join the military?A: My first job as a teenager was at the state Veterans Home. I was lucky enough

  • 87th ABW ATO shares experience abroad

    Providing safety and awareness on terrorism is not just a local matter, that is, not when you deploy more than 6,500 miles to share your knowledge with others for a particular member of the 87th Air Base Wing Antiterrorism Office.George Diorio, an 87th ABW antiterrorism officer deployed from Joint

  • Service member spotlight: tradition, respect

    Navy Petty Officer First Class Anthony Thayer, Fleet Logistics Support Squadrons Six Four, operations department leading petty officer, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Thayer hails from Springfield, Ohio.Q: Why did you join the military?A: Patriotism runs deep in my family,

  • Motorcycle mentorship program puts leadership in motion

    Some of the most valuable lessons can't be found in a book or a classroom. Military motorcyclists and Department of Defense safety officials took this maxim to heart and developed a mentorship ride program to pass on experience and provide responsible guidance to fellow riders.Before being allowed

  • Airmen get fit, ready with Recon

    The 305th Maintenance Squadron initiated a rigorous physical training program called "Recon" at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in late February 2013 to help service members improve their individual physical readiness and to reduce the number of fitness test failures.Maj. Mark Szatkowski, 305th MXS

  • Service member spotlight: family legacy

    Marine Corps Sgt. Jorge Guinta, Marine Aircraft Group 49 ground training noncommissioned officer, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Guinta hails from Cranston, R.I.Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the Marine Corps for the challenge and to turn my life around. I

  • 6th AS puts 'global' in global reach

    The current mission for the men and women of the 6th Airlift Squadron is to train and equip C-17 Globemaster III aircrews for global air and land operations for some of the most-demanding missions in Air Mobility Command. People like Capt. Andrew Black, Staff Sgt. Christopher Saydeh, Senior Airman

  • JB MDL trains next generation KC-10 pilots

    The 305th Operations Group Formal Training Unit here is one of only two locations qualification pilots who have never flown the KC-10 Extender come to receive initial training.New pilots must know the ins and outs of an aircraft through training before they can be trusted to fly missions or deploy