The 514th Air Mobility Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force based at the McGuire AFB element of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The 514th is an associate Air Force reserve unit. The wing flies aircraft assigned to the active-duty 305th Air Mobility Wing, also based at McGuire. The 514th shares the responsibility of maintaining and flying the McDonnell Douglas C-17 Globemaster III.
A wing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft carrying Vice President Joe Biden arrives at Sather Air Base, Iraq
Image: 514 Air Mobility Wg
McGuire AFB/McGuire, the common name of the McGuire unit of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is a United States Air Force base in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, approximately 16.1 miles (25.9 km) south-southeast of Trenton. McGuire is under the jurisdiction of the Air Mobility Command. It was consolidated with two adjoining US Army and Navy facilities to become part of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst on 1 October 2009.
An aerial view of McGuire AFB in 1997
Major Thomas McGuire next to his P-38 "Pudgy (V)" in 1944
Fort Dix Army Air Base, 1943
CIM-10A Bomarc Surface-to-Air missiles of the 46th Air Defense Missile Squadron
