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  • It’s Emblematic, sometimes looks do matter

    Imagine your child creates something in art class and, as any proud parent would, you post it to Facebook--Facebook being the new refrigerator and all. Then, a week later you see a viral Facebook image with your child's art making someone else famous and/or rich. Insert expletive here! Right? Or

  • Hanging it up for a simple life: It’s complicated

    Working a nine-to-five schedule and having a house with a white, picket fence is the way many perceive the American dream. What happens when you make your living at 35,000 feet in the air? Oh, and so does your husband. And you both have part time flying gigs for the Air Force and you have two

  • Decisions: Stay or Leave?

    With the oath of enlistment, Airmen swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Airmen agree to put their lives on the line and commit to more years of service. Like everything else in the military, there is a behind-the-scenes that is accomplished by more hardworking

  • Heroine vs. Heroin: A life worth saving

    Sara Kucharski is a dedicated nurse. She is also a first lieutenant in the New Jersey Air National Guard and recently, the Infection Control Officer from the 108th Medical Group, saved a man's life from a heroin overdose in Camden County this past April.During her time away from the 108th Wing,

  • Helpful Airmen Aid Homeless Vets

    Members of the 108th Medical Group, New Jersey Air National Guard, provide blood pressure checks to homeless veterans at the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Stand Down Day at the John F. Kennedy recreation center in Newark, N.J. On Oct. 10, 2015. The stand down day allows the

  • More than just a new ribbon

    Remember a time when the team you played for won the championship trophy? Maybe it was baseball, football, cheerleading or for some, it was Dungeons and Dragons. You had a sense of pride - a real sense of accomplishment and that trophy symbolized that emotion. Consequently, Airmen of the New Jersey

  • 108th Wing hosts its first satellite ALS

    Airmen from the 108th Wing attended the unit's very first satellite Airmen Leadership School at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. Starting from May 9 to June 14, eight Airmen met every weekend for class. They left afterward for the in-resident portion at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard

  • Coppinger assumes command of Ops Group

    In a double ceremony, Mount Laurel resident Lt. Col. Thomas P. Coppinger assumed command of the 108th Operations Group and was promoted to colonel Feb. 8, 2015.The ceremony which was held at the Group's headquarters at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, included family members, officers and enlisted

  • Alert Bravo aircrew stands down after 10 years of alert missions

    After 10 years of providing a refueling bridge for contingency aircrafts flying over the North Atlantic Ocean en route to support Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, aircrew and maintenance personnel from the 108th Wing's Bravo Alert Mission flew their last air refueling mission July 28 in