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  • Air Force Customs and Courtesies: It's a year-round tradition

    Customs and courtesies are time honored traditions and ways of showing respect in the Armed Forces. Each branch of military service has its own version of customs and courtesies, though many are the same. U.S. Air Force's customs and courtesies derive mostly from the U.S. Army, but since the

  • Orientation Flight Fuels B-2 Bomber and Cadet's Pilot Goal

    It's not unusual for a child to dream of becoming an airplane pilot when he grows up. And when that child grows up in a military family, the dream becomes more intense.Nick Strittmatter, 19, a Barnegat, N.J. resident, grew up in a military family: His father, Lt. Col. Martin Strittmatter, is a

  • Wing Holds ATSO Rodeo

    Rodeos are a test of skills: you know, barrel racing, cattle wrestling, bareback bronc riding - you get the picture.  ATSO (Ability to Survive and Operate) Rodeos are different: Here Airmen brush up on skills we don't use on a day-to-day basis.  "The importance of ATSO training is to teach our

  • 108th Wing Airman Gives the Gift of Life

    Approximately 200 Airmen and Soldiers from the New Jersey National Guard recently attended a worthy event at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, N.J.  Facing a blood shortage in New Jersey, the New Jersey Workplace Blood Donor Coalition, the New Jersey Department of Health and the 2014 NY/NJ

  • Driving in the Dark

    Imagine you are driving through hostile territory in pitch-black darkness and cannot use any form of lighting for fear of giving away your position to enemy forces. How can you safely maneuver through woods, over bridges, and around obstacles without putting yourself or fellow Airmen at risk?   The

  • Training for disasters

    Clouds gathered in the distance, painting the sky an inky black. Thunder rumbled while lightning flashed on the scene of inhabitants fleeing the coastal towns of New Jersey. The fear of the crowd mounted, as Superstorm Sandy brewed a storm so violent it decimated our beautiful shores. Those

  • 108th Wing Commander's message on sexual assault: "Protect each other!"

    In Fiscal Year 2012, there were 3,374 reports of sexual assaults involving service members according to the Department of Defense's Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military. Furthermore, the number of service members anonymously reporting a sexual assault grew by more than 30 percent in the

  • New Jersey Air Guard Student Flight prepare recruits for basic training

         No one's yelling at them.     Yet.     But when the training instructors at Basic Military Training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas begin molding the new enlistees, the New Jersey recruits will be ready for the experience.     "It 's quite a culture shock when they step off the bus at basic

  • The electrician

    BRICK, N.J. - New Jersey Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Carl Hilpl is standing with the rest of the electric crew in the parking lot of the Ocean County Medical Center in Brick, N.J.The temperature has fallen to 33 degrees and the rain is turning to snow. Nor'easter Athena will soon be dumping snow,