Thursday, July 26, 2012
Training is scheduled to run until 11 p.m. Thursday
The booming sounds and ground tremors rumbling throughout the area today are the result of explosives training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a base spokesman said. The FBI's New York Bureau is conducting training at the installation's ranges from 7 a.m. through 11 p.m., according to Media Relations Chief Bill Addison. "As a result of this important training, some residents may hear more noise than usual coming from the joint base's ranges and may experience possible ground shaking," Addison said. "Additionally, noise from the ranges may travel farther if weather conditions are overcast." The National Weather Service predicts that skies will be partly sunny Thursday, and thunderstorms may roll into the area after 3 p.m. Base range …
Monday, January 9, 2012
Training expected to continue for several hours
Residents hearing explosions or feeling rumblings Monday afternoon are experiencing the results of training exercises being conducted at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. "Our EOD, or explosives ordnance disposal, team has been conducting training," said Bill Addison, chief of media relations for the base. He said that the routine training will continue for several hours this afternoon. Addison said that the exercises are being carried out at range complexes located between McGuire and Dix, which is near Ocean County's border with Burlington County. The military's EOD technicians "render safe all types of ordnance, both conventional and unconventional, improvised, chemical, biological, and nuclear to include improvised explosive devices …
Friday, October 28, 2011
The airship MZ-3A now carries Navy insignia as the service resumes the airship program it shut down in 1962
With a nod to history and an eye to the future, the U.S. Navy unveiled the MZ-3A, the first airship in use in the Navy in 50 years earlier this week. At historic Hangar One at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, the nonrigid aircraft that has been used for the last two years in a trial capacity on a number of projects, was displayed with its Navy insignia for the first time. “For the longest time, every time the airship was in an area there would be all these stories in the news about mysterious blimps,” said Steve Huett, director of the Navy’s Airship Systems Engineering Team. “Hopefully this will answer that question now.” The 180-foot blimp, which was purchased by the Navy in 2006 and has been in use on a number of research operations…
jimt
12:48 pm on Thursday, July 26, 2012
All the taxes I pay and I have to listen to this? Only in Jersey. more ›