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  • Five Questions with… James Shaw Five Questions with…James Shaw – 439th Force Support Squadron Sustainment Services Flight Chief
    Five Questions with…James Shaw – 439th Force Support Squadron Sustainment Services Flight Chief

    SrA Alexander Lowe

  • Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD around a Westover C-5M Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD
    Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD

    W.C.Pope

  • CYBER YANKEE Exercise May 25, 2023 Lt. Col. Cameron Sprague, presents the Army Achievement Medal
    Lt. Col. Cameron Sprague, presents the Army Achievement Medal

    Lt. Col. Juan Doan

  • SrA Jackeline Cano Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD
    Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD

    W.C.Pope

  • Office Portrait, Mr. Lucas Rosa Mr. Lucas Rosa, 439th Force Support Squadron
    Mr. Lucas Rosa, 439th Force Support Squadron

    Mr. Rodney Furr

  • CYBER YANKEE Exercise May 25, 2023 SrA Joshua Elevado, SrA Marwan Al-Saeedi and SSgt. Bryan Bondoc
    SrA Joshua Elevado, SrA Marwan Al-Saeedi and SSgt. Bryan Bondoc

    MSgt. Rafal Grzyb

  • Cyber Training Cyber Training
    Cyber Training

    Mr. Rodney Furr

  • SrA Mathew Dougherty Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD
    Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD

    W.C.Pope

  • TSgt. Carl Nestor Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD
    Wing Eagle Eyes search flight line for FOD

    W.C.Pope

  • U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Krueger, Col. Alyson Eisenhardt, and Maj. Samantha Shameklis have risen to the task. The Patriot Wing welcomes new Commanders!
    The Patriot Wing welcomes new Commanders!

    Staff Sgt. Natalia Vazquez Torres

Westover News

  • Mariah Cabrera (right side of photo) smiles and engages with U.S. Air Force Nicholas Bonavita (left side of photo)

    A Safe Harbor: SAPR victim advocate provides strength and support

  • Tech. Sgt. Ryan Cassidy, 439th Maintenance Squadron’s Quality Assurance Section holds the winning trophy for the Spark Tank Challenge.  It is being handed to him by Colonel Greg Buchanan, 439th Airlift Wing commander.  Standing next to Cassidy is Chief Master Sgt. Barbara Gilmore, 439 AW command chief and Kathy Reid, AFWERX Spark division deputy.  The military members are in desert camouflage uniforms and Ms. Reid is in a black suit.  There are other military members standing in the background, and there is a white projection screen behind everyone.  Cassidy’s rescue hook was designed as a practical and efficient solution for rescuing individuals who fall from aircraft.

    Westover Innovation Day Showcases Cutting-Edge Technology and Airmen Creativity

  • Four Air Force Reserve senior leaders participate in a building clearing exercise at Westover’s Dogpatch training area, Aug 7.  They are standing one behind each other, wearing protective helmets and face shields, and carrying training/non-firing rifles. 
The exercise allowed participants to experience first-hand the current training Airmen are required to undergo and accel at, to prepare for the battlefield.  A two-day warfighting conference was hosted by Westover Reserve Air Force Base with Lt. Gen. John. Healy, Chief of Air Force Reserve, in attendance to ensure Airman are “Ready Now” to fight tonight and have the tools and equipment to transform for future threats as assets in the nation’s defense.

    Warfighting leaders training is hands-on

  • U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Merari Antunez poses for a photo after receiving an award from the 439th Airlift Wing Diamond Council at Westover ARB, MA, 1 June 2024. She is holding the certificate and flanked by five members of the Council.  Antunez, 439 AW group administration superintendent, encountered and helped render aid to a woman choking at the Subway inside the Westover ARB Express gas station on Sunday, May 5, 2024.

    Citizen Airman Saves A Life

  • Beth Williams, Director of Psychological Services for the 439th Airlift Wing, poses for a photo.  She is waring a brown dress, with a necklace and earrings.

    August Is Wellness Month

AFRC Headlines

  • C-130 Hercules

    UPDATE: 302d AW Aerial Firefighting Aircraft Repositioned to Idaho, Stats for Colorado, Wyoming

  • Two men sitting talking

    U.S. Air Force Reserve leaders strengthen ties with Philippine Air Force

  • Tech. Sgt. Foster Grant, 446th Civil Engineer Squadron electrical system NCOIC, and Senior Airmen Alvarado Orellana, 446th CES electrical systems technician, lay electrical wire through pipes at Moron Air Base, Spain, on May 8, 2025.

    Reservist’s dual-career path illuminates skills, leadership

  • Integrated Defense Leadership Course students fire at opposing forces during an engagement at the Slagle Drop Zone at Camp James A. Garfield Joint Military Training Center, Ohio, during an exercise, July 24, 2025.

    In it together: Maintainers crank through security forces course

  • Orlando Mestre Gonzalez, Paraguayan medical student and AMISTAD volunteer, discusses patient intake with U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Wutchu Ung at Unidad de Salud de la Familia Inmaculada Concepción in Luque, Paraguay, Aug. 11, 2025. During AMISTAD 2025, volunteers were essential to connecting medical teams with patients by providing translation and administrative support. (U.S. Air Force photo by Andrea Jenkins)

    U.S., Paraguay close AMISTAD 2025 with strengthened partnerships, improved readiness

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