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  • Maintenance NCO informs Connecticut children about Westover mission

    A 439th Airlift Wing reservist visited a Connecticut school during "America's Week" following the July 4th weekend.The Washington Elementary School camp director, from Manchester Conn., contacted Tech. Sgt. Karl Koenig of the 439th Maintenance Squadron, who also lives in Manchester, about a visit to

  • Readiness NCO MOPPs up for last time

    Clad in MOPP-4 and peering through the confines of his gas mask, Senior Master Sgt. Alan Dedinas crouched on the ground in his bunker. If you're counting, June's Operational Readiness Inspection was the seventh -- and last -- ORI for the veteran senior NCO.And many of those Airmen who counted June's

  • Chiefs Council Scholarship

    The Westover Chiefs Council is accepting applications for a $500 college scholarship award for a Patriot Wing reservist (airman basic to senior master sergeant), and a $500 scholarship for a family member of an airman basic to senior master sergeant for the fall semester. Scholarship application

  • IG rates 439th with satisfactory ORI

    An effort of mammoth proportions, equal to an actual overseas deployment, culminated in June with the safe and successful completion of the flagship of all Air Force inspections.The Operational Readiness Inspection, held June 19-26, brought more than 400 Patriot Wing members to a simulated base in

  • ARPC commander updates Airmen on vPC-GR

    Fellow Citizen Airmen,Over the July 4th weekend, you will notice something different when you access your vPC-GR Dashboard. When you log in to vPC-GR, you will be redirected to a newly integrated and centralized site called the Air Force Personnel Services (AFPERS) website, a new Total Force source

  • Lowell Spinners hit homerun with patriotic employer award

    Tim Bawmann, president and general manager, of the Lowell Spinners professional baseball team accepted a prestigious Patriot Award May 31. Bawmann was recommended for his exceptional support of his employee, U.S. Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Paolino. Airman Paolino, who is head

  • Flag of hope

    A tattered American flag flapped in the wind, hung between two trees snapped in half. This flag managed to survive the tornadoes of June 1, in Springfield, Mass., thanks to the owner, Master Sgt. Daniel Sullivan, who unwrapped it from a tree and hung it back up even before the storm was over.This

  • Westover Club wins AFRC 2011 Fer de Lance award

    Club workers on bases across the country are often the first to show up to prepare food for troop feedings and the last to leave long after the masses have been fed.But all that changed for the entire staff of the Westover Club here, and for a select group of club workers from two other Air Force

  • Westover wingmen assist after motor vehicle accident

    As the June UTA came to an end, two airmen were involved in a motor vehicle accident on Route 90. Six service members noticed that the two airmen had been injured in the accident, and utilizing self-aid buddy care, they rendered first aid to the two victims simultaneously. One of the victims was