JB MDL spouses gather holiday cookies for servicemembers

Heidi Luedtke and Valerie Burks, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst spouses, prepare holiday cookie packages for the joint base servicemembers living in the dorms as well as demobilized and mobilized servicemembers at the McGuire Chapel Dec. 15. Cookies were donated by JB MDL community members and local businesses creating more than 1,700 packages. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Dennis Sloan)

JB MDL spouses gather holdiay cookies for servicemembers

Leslie Boone and Valerie Burks, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst spouses, arrange cookies on a tray Dec. 15 at the McGuire Chapel. The spouses made more than 1,700 holiday cookie packages for joint base servicemembers living in the dorms as well as demobilized and mobilized servicemembers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Dennis Sloan)

621st CRW officers visit Valley Forge

JOINT BASE MCGURE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. -- 621st Contingency Response Wing PHOENIX MOBILITY officers get a tour of historic Valley Forge, Pa. during a visit Nov. 9. The group had the opportunity to walk in Washington’s footsteps and relate present day leadership challenges to those of the past. Air Mobility Command’s PHOENIX MOBILITY program is a 3-year professional development opportunity that cultivates future Mobility Air Force leaders by combining a strong foundation in expeditionary air mobility operations and deepening officers’ exposure to senior leadership responsibilities. The officers are assigned to the Contingency Response Wing and deploy in support of Air Operations Center and Global Contingency Response operations. (courtesy photo)(released)

JB MDL Comms photo

Airman 1st Class Jason Debelevich, 690th Network Support Squadron Enterprise Service Desk technician, Eric Dudley, ESD technician, Col. Donald C. Lock, 690th Network Support Group commander, and Chief Master Sgt. James Wallrich, 690th NSS Superintendent, cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the 690th Network Support Squadron’s newest location of the Air Force Enterprise Service Desk May 27. Helpdesks are transitioning from independently operated and managed entities at the base or major command level, to a single virtualized AF information technology ESD geographically dispersed across four world-wide locations, operating within one logical Air Force network domain. The remaining helps desks are located at Ramstein Air Base, Germany; Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, Ala. and Hickam AFB, Hawaii. (US Air Force photo by Ted Koniares)

Joint base CGOs visit nations capitol

WASHINGTON -- 1st Lt. Ryan Coughlan, 819th Global Support Squadron, looks out over Washington during a familiarization flight with the 1st Helicopter Squadron. Twenty-three company grade officers from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst visited the capitol to expose themselves to civilian government and policy institutions that interact with the Air Force and Department of Defense. (U.S. Air force photo/1st Lt. James Gallagher)

Proud parents pin paratrooper pride

Capt. Dawn Hildebrand has her newly-earned airborne jump wings pinned to her chest by her parents, Mark and Denise Hildebrand, in a ceremony at Fort Benning, Ga. Dec. 3. Captain Hildebrand is an Air Mobility Liaison Officer assigned the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and is attached to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC. (courtesy photo)