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  • MCAX CH-53 Sea Stallion Recon

    Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment Marines scan a forest for enemy forces during a reconnaissance exercise on Fort Indiantown Gap, P.A., June 14, 2018. The exercise trained Marines to successfully extract crashed pilots while avoiding enemy attack. The recon was just one part of a

  • Marines bring together US forces for first East Coast MCAX

    Joint Base MDL service members kicked off the 2018 Marine Aircraft Group-49 Combined Arms Exercise here, June 12.     Fifteen total force units including active duty, guard and reserve members across 14 East Coast states from Massachusetts to Florida will be participating in the annual large-scale

  • 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

  • Honoring, remembering the NATO ATC/A nine

    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

  • 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

  • MDL hosts joint Service Member of the Year competition

    Representatives from all four military branches recently participated in the third annual Service Member of the Year competition here May 3-4.  Ranging in rank from junior enlisted to company grade officer, the 21 competitors were pushed to their physical and mental limits with challenges including

  • Making a difference, one fire truck at a time

    Case in point, Master Sgt. Jorge A. Narvaez, a traditional New Jersey Air National Guardsman with the 108th Security Forces Squadron, is in the process of getting a fire truck sent to Nicaragua.Narvaez, who is originally from Nicaragua, came to the United States in 1981 and has served with the