33 NEW YORK New Yorkers are used to seeing unusual things, but 36 Soldiers carrying 45 pound MOLLE packs, got a second look from even the most jaded resident, as medics assigned to the 1st Battalion, 69th Infantry conducted a 6 mile ruck march through lower Manhattan on May 16.
The medics kicked off from the New York Army National Guard battalion’s historic Lexington Avenue Armory home in the early morning hours.
They headed east towards the East River and FDR Drive and the followed the highway south to the Williamsburg Bridge connecting Manhattan to Queens. They turned around and came back.
The civilians along the route looked at the Soldiers curiously and took pictures as they moved through the neighborhoods. The Soldiers told the onlookers that they were conducting training they hadn’t been able to do before due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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An airman from McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, conducts a post-flight check of a KC-46A Pegasus at Travis Air Force Base, Aug. 21, 2019. The first KC-46 is scheduled to arrive at Travis in 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Pilot says KC-46 is ‘a dream to fly’
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE The last time Travis Air Force Base added a new type of aircraft to its fleet in August 2006, George W. Bush was president, Nelly Furtado had the No. 1 single and the first iPhone was 10 months away from hitting stores.
It’s safe to say things will be different in August 2023, when the first of its next batch of aircraft, the KC-46A Pegasus, is scheduled to arrive.
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A request for federal funding for the project to connect the Fort Dix and Lakehurst sections of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has gone before a new committee.
U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-03) recently submitted an $8 million request to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the Route 539 overpass project.
The committee request, Kim said, is potentially a new path toward funding the critical infrastructure project.
“The trouble we’ve had before, there’s continued disagreement over who is going to pay for part of it,” Kim said. “It’s holding up a significant issue . I decided to try and come at this from a different direction.”
By GEORGE WOOLSTON | Burlington County Times | Published: May 12, 2021 WILLINGBORO, N.J. (Tribune News Service) A request for federal funding for the project to connect the Fort Dix and Lakehurst sections of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has gone before a new committee. U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-03) recently submitted an $8 million request to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for the Route 539 overpass project. The committee request, Kim said, is potentially a new path toward funding the critical infrastructure project. The trouble we ve had before, there s continued disagreement over who is going to pay for part of it, Kim said. It s holding up a significant issue . I decided to try and come at this from a different direction.