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  • Service member spotlight: duty, adaptability

    Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Eugene Peters, Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team engineer, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Peters hails from Rockland, Maine.Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the Coast Guard to learn many different job skills and get a

  • Patriots play role in contingency expeditionary force mission

    Upward of 40 trainer/mentors from the 174th Infantry Brigade served as embedded observer/coaches augmenting the 78th Training Division Combat Support Training Exercise (CSTX) in addition to its primary duty of training mobilized service members for the deployment expeditionary force mission recently

  • Service member spotlight: hard work pays off

    Airman 1st Class Renna Yandon, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Legal Office, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Yandon hails from Newcomb, N.Y.Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the military after my plans for college and a basketball scholarship fell through. I

  • Service member spotlight: serve the country, people

    Sgt. 1st Class Michael Haller, 72nd Operations Brigade senior observer and controller trainer, is the joint base's featured service member of the week. Haller hails from Belington, W.Va.Q: Why did you join the military?A: I joined the Army to get out of West Virginia and to see the world. I also

  • Navy history, tradition lives on at JB MDL

    Lakehurst today is an integral part of the burgeoning military complex known as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. It retains its naval traditions and historical roots dating back to 1921.Lakehurst dates back to 1916 when the Eddystone Chemical Corporation bought the first parcel of land from the

  • Soldier enjoys challenges, volunteers for combatives class

    Even though Army combatives is part of a soldier's warrior tasks and required for yearly training, combatives moves like arm bars, guillotines and Komodo dragons motivated Staff Sgt. Jose Morejon to become a better trainer for Soldiers conducting combatives training here. "It's all about attention

  • 18th Air Force: a legacy of excellence

    Although a divide of more than six decades separates them from the founders of their command, today's 18th Air Force Airmen continue to embody the same motto: "expedite!"Signifying a commitment to excellence in the successful and rapid completion of the command's worldwide air mobility mission, the

  • Reduce, reuse, recycle: a tale of waste redemption

    Imagine all the forms and documents, disposable materials and other resources necessary to run the Department of Defense's only tri-service joint base. Now, imagine the amount of solid waste left behind by the 42,000 men and women who work here. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst is not immune to

  • Ammo Flight inspects 'everything that goes boom'

    The men and women of the 305th Maintenance Squadron Ammo Flight work day in and day out to ensure 'everything that goes boom' is handled safely and professionally at the munitions site here.Tucked away in a secluded area on the joint base, the flight stores, sorts, inspects, handles and accounts for

  • Teachers teach teachers to teach

    Most people will encounter a situation in their life when they need to teach. It may be as simple as helping a child tie his or her shoes or as an educator in a classroom.The art of teaching is a learned skill most develop over time. Some seek out ways to learn and help others learn this abstract