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Success follows Fort Sill joint training exercise
November 8, 2019 — Airmen with the 6th Airlift Squadron assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey and Soldiers with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma conducted an air-ground joint training exercise on Fort Sill Nov. 5... MORE

U.S. Air Force Capt. Shawn McDonald, 6th Airlift Squadron pilot, checks controls in the cockpit of a C-17 Globemaster III on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Nov. 5, 2019. McDonald was preparing the aircraft before takeoff to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for a joint training exercise with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Owings)

First ever: Artificial intelligence used for AMC Flight Commander Course
October 2, 2019 — Instructors from the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Flight Commander Course incorporated Air University’s live simulation – Mixed Reality Leadership Exercise into the class for the first time in Air Mobility Command, Sept. 27 on Joint Base MDL... MORE

U.S. Air Force Capt. John Hoffecker, 204th Intelligence Squadron flight commander, listens to an artificial intelligence presentation during a live simulation – mixing reality leadership experience during a Flight Commander Course on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Sept. 27, 2019. The AI provided information based on the students’ responses which gives students a more realistic practice to complex interpersonal skills. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ariel Owings)

Honoring, remembering the NATO ATC/A nine
May 1, 2018 — The Air Advisor Memorial Foundation hosted an annual remembrance ceremony at the Air Advisor Academy here, April 27. Every year the ceremony is held at Joint Base MDL on April 27 at 10:10 a.m., to honor, rededicate and remember the nine NATO Air Trade and Command/Afghanistan air advisors who were shot and killed during a tour in the Middle East... MORE

Merrium Hamilton, widow of U.S. Air Force Capt. Nathan Nylander, comforts their children during the Air Advisor Memorial Foundation Annual Remembrance Ceremony April 27, 2018 on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The ceremony was created in 2012 to honor and remember the nine NATO Air Trade and Command/Afghanistan Airmen who were killed in action April 27, 2011. An Afghan officer working alongside the Airmen opened fire inside the air command and control center, resulting in their deaths. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Ariel Owings)