{"id":7184,"date":"2021-12-02T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=7184"},"modified":"2021-12-02T04:03:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:03:40","slug":"christmas-bells-well-rockets-and-mortars-will-be-ringing-all-month-at-joint-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/12\/christmas-bells-well-rockets-and-mortars-will-be-ringing-all-month-at-joint-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bells (Well, Rockets and Mortars) Will Be &#8216;Ringing&#8217; All Month at Joint Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13254\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mdl_training.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13254\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13254\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mdl_training-1024x608.jpg\" alt=\"Troops at Joint Base MDL train. (Photo: Joint Base MDL)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Troops at Joint Base MDL train. (Photo: Joint Base MDL)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ll hear some loud booms coming from the west this month \u2013 but there\u2019s nothing to worry about. Most local residents call it the \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Servicemembers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will be spending their holiday season with an intensive training schedule, ranging from small arms, to rocket fire, to cratering charges. The first portion of the marathon training period came earlier this week, when a U.S. Air Force medical group conducted an operation to simulate a response to a CBRE attack \u2013 an acronym that stands for \u201cchemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/87AirBaseWing\/videos\/224032803203624<\/p>\n<p>The base released a schedule of its expected training exercises this week. It appears in graphical form below. Today, the base will host rotary wing artillery gunnery training, with .50 caliber rifles, rocket fire and rotary cannons. That same training, which produces \u201cmoderate\u201d noise, will be held Dec. 5-11 and Dec. 13-17.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the training will move to heavier weapons, including the live-firing of mortars, howitzer batteries and cratering charges. The heavy training will run Friday and Saturday this week.<\/p>\n<p>Small arms training will be held Dec. 12, then from Dec. 18-31. This training generally encompasses rifles, sidearms and specialized small arms.<\/p>\n<p>The full schedule appears below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19109\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/261430721_268582495306469_8448608670603630347_n.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19109\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19109\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/261430721_268582495306469_8448608670603630347_n-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"JBMDL Schedule\" width=\"1000\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JBMDL Schedule<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/12\/christmas-bells-well-rockets-and-mortars-will-be-ringing-all-month-at-joint-base\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ll hear some loud booms coming from the west this month \u2013 but there\u2019s nothing to worry about. Most local residents call it the \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d Servicemembers at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will be spending their holiday season with an intensive training schedule, ranging from small arms, to rocket fire, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1080],"class_list":["post-7184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county-news","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mdl_training.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}