JB MDL hosts Armed Forces Wrestling Championship

Navy Adrian Rios fights off Marine Donald Simmons’ vice-like-grip headlock in the Greco-Roman 84 kg. match March 16, 2013, at the Armed Forces Wrestling Championship, in Griffith Field House at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Simmons took the match in two back-to-back 6-0 periods. Rios is assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 195 in Atsugi, Japan. He calls Liberal, Kansas, home. Simmons is assigned to Headquarters Support Battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He is a Halifax, Penn., native. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)

JB MDL hosts Armed Forces Wrestling Championship

Air Force Terrell Walker tries for a pin to counter Army Oscar Wood’s attempt at a throw in the 84 kg. Greco Roman style match March 16, 2013, at the Armed Forces Wrestling Championship, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Wood, a 2004 Olympic wrestling team and Army assistant coach, holds his opponent off with leverage on Walker’s hip. Walker scrambles to get chest-to-chest, the most dominant wrestling position which provides a controlled center of gravity and diminishes an opponent’s ability to escape. This was Walker’s first duel in an Armed Forces championship. Walker won the first period, 5-0, bringing his team to their feet. Wood came back to win the two subsequent periods and thus the round, though Wood suffered a displaced rib in the duel. Walker is stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and calls Eglin, Ill., home. Wood is stationed at Fort Carson, Colo. He hails from Gresham, Ore. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)

Read Across America Day

Navy Capt. William Bulis, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst deputy commander, celebrates Read Across America Day March 1, 2013, at Librar-e and Reource Commons at JB MDL, N.J. Children from the joint base community experienced an interactive reading of “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Bulis as Thing 1, Andrea Cramer, and Cat in the Hat, Lt. Col. Gene Mattingly, 87th Mission Support Group deputy commander, acted it out. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne Russell/Released)

Read Across America Day

Lt. Col. Gene Mattingly, 87th Mission Support Group deputy commander, dressed as Cat in the Hat, reads “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss to children of the McGuire Child Development Center March 1, 2013, at the Librar-e Resource Commons for the National Education Association's Read Across America event. Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that started March 2, 1998.The day also marks the birthday of Dr. Theodor Geisel, better known to most readers as Dr. Seuss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wayne Russell/Released)

An Evening of Fashion

Nicole Rogers, 13, shows off a thrift store outfit during the “An Evening of Fashion” event Feb. 26, 2013, at the Saxton Community Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The event was organized by both the Dix Spouses’ and Civilians’ Club and the McGuire Officers’ Spouses’ Club as a way to promote joint base thrift stores. Nicole is the daughter of Army Lt. Col. James Rogers, Northeast Army Reserve Intelligence Support Center commander; and his wife Robin.

An Evening of Fashion

Tina Wedewer, wife of Air Force Maj. Christopher Wedewer, 87th Civil Engineer Squadron operations flight commander, congratulates Lynne Allison Patterson, wife of Col. Chris Patterson, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center deputy commander, after walking the runway during the “An Evening of Fashion” fashion show Feb. 26, 2013, at Saxton Community Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. All proceeds from the thrift shops, where the outfits came from, go back into the military community through welfare programs and scholarships. Tina hails from Liverpool, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. David J. Murphy)