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  • Veteran walks red carpet at World Series

    Watching the playoff is one thing, but earning an invite with red carpet treatment at the World Series is another.Mona Bonick, 375th Air Mobility Wing Exercises and Inspections deputy chief and retired master sergeant, was honored with other service branch representatives at game one in St. Louis,

  • West Virginia Air National Guard C-5s fly as part of historic surge

    Flying seven of its 11 assigned C-5 Galaxy aircraft, the West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing is participating in historic "surge" of the airframe. Based in Martinsburg, W. Va., the 167th Airlift Wing was tapped to demonstrate its readiness, power, flexibility and partnership

  • Disease exercise keeps Joint Base MDL prepared

    Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst conducted a full scale biological agent attack exercise Oct. 6 and 7 here.The exercise was formulated to assess the capabilities of the installation disease containment plan and to determine what can be done better in the future to improve medical emergency

  • Historic 'surge' exercises airlift crisis, contingency response

    An historic "surge" of the nation's largest military airlifters will more than double their normal day-to-day workload, exercising the ability of United States Transportation Command and its air component, Air Forces Transportation, to rapidly provide strategic airlift in response to large-scale

  • New AMC command chief shares vision with Joint Base MDL Airmen

    The Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst community welcomed Chief Master Sgt. Andy Kaiser, Air Mobility Command's newly-appointed command chief, on the second stop of his emersion tour of three East Coast AMC bases. A highlight of Kaiser's visit was the enlisted all-call for the Airmen of Joint

  • 1855: A special "tale"

    Chief Master Sgt. Mark Marson, 314th Airlift Wing command chief, wrote in permanent marker, "she is an Airman," on the 47-year-old skin of aircraft C-130E 62-1855 at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group here. The Vietnam-Era C-130E was delivered to AMARG, commonly known as the

  • Fairchild units 'team' to conduct first-ever KC-135 OSC exercise

    Earlier in 2011, a military aircraft went down in Afghanistan and the aircrew evaded through enemy terrain. A Fairchild KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft was nearby conducting operations and was the first to receive communications from the downed survivors. Once they positively authenticated the

  • Dover AFB's Eagle's Rest Inn wins top Air Force award

    Eagle's Rest Inn, Dover AFB's lodging facility, has been named 2011 Innkeeper of the Year (small base) for the Air Force. The award will be presented in New York City in November. Rauchelle Watson, Eagle's Rest general manager, believed her inn was the best, now they have the award to prove it.

  • Scott AFB's 375th AMW commander: 'Remembering 9/11'

    As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, approached, Col. Mike Hornitschek reflected his thoughts in a story on the 375th Air Mobility Wing Web site. Hornitschek serves as the wing commander of the 375th AMW.Following is an exerpt from that story written by the colonel