assumed installation command. The 305th, along with the 108th Air Wing (ANG), 621st Contingency Response Wing, and the 514th Air Mobility Wing (AFRES), has supported every major type of air mobility mission over the past 15 years. McGuire organizations 87th Air Base Wing (Host organization for JB MDL) 305th Air Mobility Wing (C-17 Airlift, KC-10 Air Refueling operations for McGuire AFB/Lakehurst) 621st Contingency Response Wing (Rapid Response unit) 514th Air Mobility Wing (C-17 Airlift, KC-10 Air Refueling) (Air Force Reserve) 108th Wing (KC-135 Air Refueling, C-32B) (Air National Guard) 57th Weapons Squadron (USAF Weapons School C-17 training unit, GSU from Nellis AFB, Nevada) 314th Recruiting Squadron Detachment 1, Civil Air Patrol Detachment 1, 373rd Training Squadron Source: Dix See: Fort Dix for additional information and history. The facility originated in 1917 as Camp Dix, named in honor of Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, and a former United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of New York. It was renamed Fort Dix in 1939. Dix has a history of mobilizing, training and demobilizing Soldiers from as early as World War I through the present day. In 1978, the first female recruits entered basic training at Fort Dix. In 1991, Dix trained Kuwaiti civilians in basic military skills so they could take part in their country's liberation. Dix ended its active Army training mission in 1988 due to Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations. It began a new mission of mobilizing, deploying and demobilizing Soldiers and providing training areas for Army Reserve and Army National Guard Soldiers. In 1994, the United States Air Force Expeditionary Center was established as the Air Mobility Warfare Center on Dix. Fort Dix organizations Army Support Activity Marine Aircraft Group 49 99th Regional Support Command 404th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) 2d Brigade, 75th Division USCG Atlantic Strike Team U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center Military Entrance Processing Station NCO Academy Navy Operational Support Center 174th Infantry Brigade Fleet Logistics Squadron (VR-64) 244th Aviation Brigade Battery G, 3rd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ), NJARNG NJARNG Observer Coach/Trainer Operations Group Source: Lakehurst See: Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst for additional information and history. Lakehurst history begins as a munitions-testing site for the Imperial Russian Army in 1916. It was then gained by the United States Army as Camp Kendrick during World War I. The