MFSC offers one-stop service

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst recently completed construction on the Military and Family Support Center, a $7.6 million facility built to help provide service members and their families with targeted support and services, contributing to mission readiness, resiliency and well-being of the JB MDL

McConnell hosts children's holiday party

More than 800 Team McConnell members experienced the "magic and wonder" of the holidays during the annual Children's Holiday Party, Dec. 1, 2012. The event was hosted by the 22nd Operations Group with support from base helping-agencies. "I think the attendees loved it," said 1st Lt. Ty Brackin, 22nd

437th APS Airmen save AF more than a million dollars

The 437th Aerial Port Squadron Load Planning Airmen answered the call when the Air Mobility Command Fuel Efficiency office asked AMC aerial port squadrons to maximize fuel usage aboard C-17 Globemaster III's and other air frames using a new initiative called precession loading.Before the initiative

Base Family Child Care Program named best in 2012 by AMC

The Airman & Family Readiness Center here was recently recognized as the Air Mobility Command Family Child Care Program of the Year for 2012.Pamela Schumaker, family child care coordinator said the A&FRC has been working hard to improve youth functions on base, and this award directly reflects what

Holiday Season arrives at Dover

Dover AFB Airman raises flight equipment efficiency with FEARS

When an expensive contract on an Air Force Aircrew Flight Equipment database program was not renewed, bases across the world had to find local solutions to fill the void. Some had to turn to time consuming spreadsheets or paper records. At Dover Air Force Base, Del., one Airman created a solution to

Fire in the hole

Tech. Sgt. Rudolph Stuart (left), 628th Security Forces Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge, throws a smoke grenade during Combat Readiness Training with the 628th Explosive Ordnance Squadron while Staff Sgt. Brandon Washington observes Nov. 30, 2012, at Joint Base Charleston - Air Base, S.C.

Operation Santa Lock-up

Operation Santa Lock-up was a fundraiser held Nov. 30 to benefit Operation Warmheart and the Defenders Association. Members of Fairchild called in to put out an "arrest warrant" on their fellow wingman to be put into a simulated jail. The amount of time spent in jail was determined by the amount of

Electronic beacons track pallets

They can be seen everywhere a service member travels. They can have a month's worth of water stored on them in Afghanistan or form the walls of a shack in Haiti. They have been used to transport thousands of vehicles in the Department of Defense or just reutilized as makeshift flooring for a tent on

Team McChord commemorates 20th anniversary of C-141 accident

Team McChord Airmen, civilians and retirees gathered Nov. 30 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 13 Airmen who were killed when two C-141 Starlifter aircraft collided over north-central Montana.The ceremony took place at the C-141 memorial site in between the 4th and 8th Airlift Squadron