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  • AROWS change improves visibility of operational requirements

    Beginning Oct. 1, a new data field will be added to the Air Reserve Orders Writing System that will be used primarily to track military personnel appropriation and other orders for operational requirements.This new field will be called Air Reserve Component Operational Requirements Tracker or ARCORT. The only orders required to have an ARCORT
  • Multiple missions flew in and out of Homestead ARB, which became a hub for Hurricane Irma relief efforts just hours after the massive storm moved through the Florida Keys and southwest Florida.

    Westover Port Dawgs keep Hurricane Irma relief efforts moving

     Aerial porters from Westover Air Reserve Base were some of the first boots on the ground at Homestead ARB in response to Hurricane Irma’s potential devastation. There was no electricity when they arrived to a dark, hot and humid South Florida, but they brought the willpower. “We got the call on the infamous Sept. 11, and knew our fellow Americans
  • The 2017 Air Force Community Feedback Tool isn't just any survey. How well is the Air Force doing supporting you? Active, Air National Guard and Reserve Airmen, spouses of Airmen and Air Force civilian employees can take this survey and help inluence change.

    2017 Air Force Community Feedback Tool

    The 2017 Air Force Community Feedback Tool isn't just any survey. How well is the Air Force doing supporting you? Active, Air National Guard and Reserve Airmen, spouses of Airmen and Air Force civilian employees can take this survey and help inluence change.
  • Unloading of Hurricane Irma relief supplies form a C-5M Super Galaxy

    Westover Reserve Citizen Airmen continue ongoing Hurricane Irma relief support at Homestead ARB

    Westover Reserve Citizen Airmen unload cargo from a C-5M Super Galaxy September 13, 2017 on the flightline at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida. The cargo consisted of equipment and supplies that will assist in the ongoing Hurricane Irma relief efforts that are being staged out of Homestead ARB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna Smith)
  • Westover Reserve Citizen Airmen board a bus September 11, 2017, on the flightline outside of Hangar Three to board a C-5M Super Galaxy that will be bringing them to Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida. These Airmen are deploying to Homestead ARB to assist with relief efforts following in the wake of Hurricane Irma. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

    Westover sends 50 Reserve Citizen Airmen to Homestead

    About 40 Reserve Citizen Airmen from Westover – in four different career fields – boarded a bus Septeptember 11, 2017, for a flight aboard a C-5M to Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla. Once in Florida, the Airmen will assist with Hurricane Irma relief efforts at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Airmen work in civil
  • Firemen and Airmen of Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. remember lives lost on September 11, 2001, in a ceremony September 11, 2017, on the ellipse. 16 years ago today, four passenger airliners were hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of these aircraft, American Airlines Flight 11, and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. A third aircraft, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. And a fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, which was initially steered toward Washington D.C., but crashed into a field in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania after passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

    Westover ARB Fire Department remembers lives lost September 11, 2001, with memorial ceremony

    Westover Fire Chief Charles VanGorden remembers the lives lost on September 11, 2001, in a ceremony September 11, 2017, on the ellipse. 16 years ago today, four passenger airliners were hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of these aircraft, American Airlines Flight 11, and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers,
  • Tech. Sgt. Karen Moore, a loadmaster for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, prepares a dropsonde to be released into the eyewall of Hurricane Irma. Crews have recently been flying missions continuously in three different hurricanes in the Atlantic region simultaneously. (U.S. Air Force photo by: Staff Sgt. Nicholas Monteleone)

    Earth Wind and Fire: Reservists own the skies

    For the first time in the nearly 70-year history of the Air Force Reserve, all three special mission units have been called to action simultaneously due to a series of catastrophic events that have effected wide swaths of the U.S.Reserve Citizen Airmen from across the country are conducting weather reconnaissance, aerial spray and airborne

  • Sister aerial port squadrons load up for FEMA response

    As Hurricane Irma’s ferocious momentum ravaged parts of the Caribbean Islands Sept. 8, reservists with Westover’s two aerial port squadrons led the Patriot Wing’s response to the huge storm.More than 20 Reserve Citizen Airmen with the 58th and 42nd Aerial Port Squadrons answered the Sept. 8 tasking from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.The
  • A C-17 Globemaster III sits on the flightline September 9, 2017, at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Three C-17s from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington and March ARB, California, await the loading of Federal Emergency Management Agency supplies by Westover's Aerial Port Squadrons to support those impacted by Hurricane Irma. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

    AF C-17s to load FEMA supplies to bring relief to victims of Hurricane Irma

    A C-17 Globemaster III sits on the flightline September 9, 2017, at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Three C-17s from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington and March ARB, California, await the loading of Federal Emergency Management Agency supplies by Westover's Aerial Port Squadrons to support those
  • C-5A Galaxy 70-0461 departs from the runway September 7, 2017, at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. 0461 is the last C-5A in the Air Force and is destined for the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. where it is set to retire. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

    And then there were none, the final C-5A departs Westover ARB for retirement

    A dreary, overcast morning gave way to patches of blue sky as the loud, lumbering, giant C-5A Galaxy 70-0461 taxied onto the runway. September 7, 2017, is a day to go down in Air Force history. It marks the departure of Westover Air Reserve Base’s and the Air Force’s final C-5A Galaxy to the boneyard in Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, where
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