Lakehurst News

Students in the Combat Airman Skills Training Course use a smoke diversion tactic while practicing patrol maneuvers on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov.

BOOTLEG FILES 310: 'The Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel' . LAST SEEN: Available on numerous online video sites.

I posted this on another thread using another word but upon reflection It occured to me that if one wanted to start a new curse word the word "Barak' would work far better than the original.

Nov 14th 2009 at 4:03PM A bottle of beer rescued from the crash of the Hindenburg recently sold at auction for over $16,000 according to This is Wiltshire in the UK.

We've written before about the aged-beer craze, but this is getting out of hand.

Candlestick Park on game day from 1,000 feet overhead while aboard the Zeppelin airship "Eureka N704LZ" out of Moffett Field, Calif.

The Navy's next-generation electromagnetic aircraft catapult will be hurling test loads down the Lakehurst test track next month, and the project will be ready for test launching the first aircraft in summer 2010, program manager Capt.

Danny Petoia is, quite literally, unearthing the past. Since the beginning of September, the 17-year-old Eagle Scout candidate and Southern Regional High School student has been digging out the original turntable on the Barnegat Branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

A signed bottle of beer recovered from the ashes of the Hindenburg disaster is expected to fetch $4,000 to $8,000 at auction this weekend -- the highest price ever for a bottle of beer.

A late morning fire swept through a one-story ranch home here, forcing its three occupants to flee, officials said.

Every once in a while when I drive past Moffett Field on Highway 101, I see their hangars and think of them.

The Warfighter and Family Readiness Center's Exceptional Family Member Program was recently awarded a $1-million grant for families across Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The Family Support 360 for Military Families grant was awarded to JB MDL in conjunction with the New Jersey Statewide Parent Advocacy Network and will focus on helping and ...

Bagpipers played "God Bless America" as firefighters, police officers and Jersey City officials saluted the arrival of the USS New York .

It's been 20 years since a Democrat has served on the governing body of one of the most Republican-leaning towns in the county.

Tech. Sgt. John Rickenbach, a team chief with the 621st Contingency Response Wing, assists Egyptian Airborne soldiers with the simulated loading of an M-113 armored personnel carrier during Exercise Bright Star 2009 in Cairo, Egypt, Oct.

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST - As a chill filled the air at 6 a.m. Monday, Airman 1st Class Samantha Earnest stood in line waiting to check in with her fellow airmen as the 6th Airlift Squadron prepared for a 20-hour flight to Iraq on a commercial 757 jetliner.

Mayor Tom Harper said he can "finally see the end." A few years ago that wouldn't be such good news.

Jackson Council President Mike Kafton recently wrote a letter to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., saying there was tremendous concern in Jackson about the aircraft that fly out of Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

A Jackson man who authorities claim sold heroin that lead to an overdose death this weekend has been arrested.

The annual Halloween parade is scheduled for Saturday morning. The line-up will start at 10:45 a.m. at the Post Office on Brown Avenue, with the parade kicking off at 11 a.m. The Manchester Township High School Marching Band, led by director Timothy Apgar, will perform, marching to the Lake Horicon pavilion, where refreshments will be served ...