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  • Members of the Patriot Wing?s aerial port Air Mobility Rodeo team participate in the C-5 engines running offload (ERO) competition at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The Westover team won first place for the best C-5 ERO team in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

    Westover Winners

  • Brig. Gen. Wade Farris, 439th Airlift Wing commander, and the Patriot Wing competitors salute Gen. Duncan McNabb, commander of Air Mobility Command (wearing the Rodeo cowboy hat) during opening ceremonies at McChord, July 22. (U.S. Air Force photo / Tech Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

    On-time landing, team spirit highlight Rodeo beginning

    The Patriot Wing made a precise transcontinental arrival as part of the opening of the Air Force's premier airlift competition held here. Following a 2,460-mile trip from Westover, Majs. Glenn Melia and Mike Smith, 337th Airlift Squadron, put the C-5 wheels on the runway here at 11:34 and 59 seconds - one second before a mandatory 11:35 a.m.
  • Westover aircrews rush from the mouth of a C-5 during the 2000 air mobility Rodeo. The 439th Airlift Wing will be participating once again in the 2007 Rodeo on July 23. Rodeo began in 1962 as a combat skills competition to enhance air mobility operations. (U.S. Air Force photo / Master Sgt. W.C. Pope)

    Rodeo Run

  • Westover firefighters christened the base's new "smoke house," a training facility designed to simulate the temperatures and visibility of an actual building fire, here on June 4. Local firefighters from Chicopee, Mass. also joined in on the event.

    Smoke House

  • BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Col. Paul T. Babin Jr., a former Commander 439th Civil Engineering Squadron, inspects the remains of a destroyed bridge that once spanned the Tigris River. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    Reconstructivist

    Col. Paul T. Babin Jr. brings his concern for the Iraqi people directly to the heart of Baghdad. As a Facility Sector Lead, Gulf Region deployed to Baghdad since early February, the former 439th Civil Engineering Squadron commander works directly with 13 different Iraqi Ministries to build or repair badly-needed resources throughout Iraq. Gen.
  • ESCONDIDO, Calif. -- Master Sgt. Moises Zanazanian directs Tech. Sgt. Mark Boganski using a bulldozer blade to scrape topsoil while widening a road for the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians. Both are from members of the 439th Civil Engineering Squadron, Westover Air Reserve Base,

    Reservists help California tribe

  • A Westover C-5A is displayed for the thousands of visitors who attended the 2004 Great New England Air Show. Due to fiscal constraints and operational commitments, this year's air show has been rescheduled to the summer of 2008. A date has not been determined yet. (US Air Force file photo/Master Sgt. Tom Allocco)

    Westover reschedules Great New England Air Show

  • Westover reschedules Great New England Air Show

  • Maj. Warren Smith, Chief of Mobility and disaster preparedness with the 439th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, is also a private with the 34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry. The Civil War shooter is shown with his Whitney militia rifle.

    Westover officer rifles through history

    Maj. Warren Smith loves the firing range, but he usually can't see how he did until the smoke clears. But, that's pretty typical when your weapon-of-choice is a live-fire, Civil War musket - and you're competing on a Civil War shooting team. Major Smith is chief of mobility and disaster preparedness with the 439th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron,
  • An Iraqi woman sells bread to motorists in Kirkuk, Iraq, Jan. 28, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Maria J. Bare) (Released)

    Cops in Kirkuk

    Six members of the 439th Security Forces Squadron deployed to Iraq on Feb. 18. Capt. Shawn Swarz, Master Sgt. Paul Cyr, Tech. Sgt. Scott Taylor, Tech. Sgt. Ronnie Briere, Staff Sgt. Eric Marjault and Senior Airman Arjel Falcon, left as part of a 13-man squad of security forces Reservists tasked with the defense of Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq,
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