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NEWS

  • 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

  • Hurricane Sandy knocks EC down, not out

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center was prepared for Hurricane Sandy when the superstorm made landfall on Oct. 29 in southern New Jersey. What the organization was not expecting was the level of damage the storm caused to the building or the impact the damages would have on courses and programs

  • Joint base aids local Hurricane Sandy victims

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst's professional organizations such as the First Sergeants' Council, Top 3, 5/6 Club, Air Force Sergeants Association and others are currently collaborating to centralize the joint base's efforts to provide aid and humanitarian relief for local communities impacted by

  • MAF Airmen continue hurricane relief efforts

    America's Mobility Air Forces continued transporting equipment and personnel to East Coast staging areas in support of relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.Today the 618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center) at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., has scheduled additional

  • 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

  • JB MDL service members clean-up wreckage

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst service members began cleaning the debris left by Hurricane Sandy as soon as they were able to safely leave shelter here Oct. 30, 2012.Hurricane Sandy damaged buildings, foliage and power lines on JB MDL leaving the service members here responsible for picking up the

  • Missing for 46 years, Air Commando laid to rest

    An Air Commando who died when his C-123 flare ship was shot down over Ahn Khe, Vietnam, was laid to rest Friday at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas.The 310th Air Commando Squadron loadmaster, Airman 1st Class Jerry Mack Wall, 24, was killed when his plane was hit by enemy fire and crashed

  • JB MDL gears up for Hurricane Sandy

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst units began gearing up for the potential arrival of Hurricane Sandy with an Emergency Operations Center stand-up Oct. 26 here.The representatives collaborated to determine the precautions base officials must take to prepare the installation for the approaching

  • Preventing domestic violence key to healthy relationships

    When punches are thrown, feelings are bruised and a family is crushed, violence within the home becomes a sobering subject. Domestic violence has the power to seep into any household within the Fairchild community, according to Fairchild's Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate, Janet Bunn. Educating the