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  • 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

  • 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

  • Logistics Airmen aid WA linemen, equipment movement to NY

    Nine Airmen from the 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron processed electrical linemen and their equipment for flights from here to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst so they could help Long Island, N.Y., residents recover from Hurricane Sandy.Within six hours beginning the evening of Nov. 2, the LRS

  • The Great American Smokeout

    The 717 smokers on Fairchild will have the opportunity to join the rest of the country on Nov. 15 for the Great American Smokeout."This nationally recognized day, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, is a time for smokers to quit for just 24 hours," said William Saultes, Health Promotion

  • Joint Base Lewis-McChord members team up to provide hurricane support

    After airlifting more than 20 electrical utility vehicles to the East Coast Saturday to aid in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, McChord Field Airmen were back at it again Sunday, transporting much-needed relief back east. Only this time, instead of utility vehicles, this cargo belonged to the Army's

  • Flying Operation Restore Power at 35,000 feet

    On Nov. 1, more than 30 aircraft and hundreds of Air Force and civilian personnel converged on March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to help win a race against time and Mother Nature. In the aftermath of a storm that had been labeled as the big one - "Frankenstorm" - some 1.7 million people were left

  • Hungary-based Airmen write new chapter in mulitinational operations

    At this small, bare-bones, communist-era airfield located in the Hungarian countryside, midpoint between Vienna and Budapest, American Airmen are writing a dynamic new chapter in multinational cooperation and flight operations. Airmen assigned to the Heavy Airlift Wing at Papa Air Base work side by

  • FEMA supports Northeast from JB MDL

    Members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stand ready to provide disaster relief to the New York and New Jersey regions from a staging area on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Trucks carrying water, food, blankets, generators and many other supplies began arriving Oct. 26, a few days

  • In wake of Sandy, Mobility Airmen poised to 'answer the call'

    Across the nation, Mobility Airmen are assessing the damage left by Hurricane Sandy at their own Air Force bases along the East Coast and beginning the process of recovery, while also standing ready to answer the call for support of relief efforts from civilian authorities. In the wake of the