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  • Westover contributes to crash investigation

    When Air Force officials began assembling a team of investigators to sift through the wreckage of the C-5 that crashed April 3 at Dover Air Force Base, Del., they looked to Westover for help. Four Patriot Wing members were hand-picked to serve on Air Mobility Command’s safety investigation board,

  • Westover reservist climbs Mount Kilimanjaro

    If you think the Air Force's new fitness standards aren't tough enough, go climb a mountain.In January, a member of Westover's 42nd Aerial Port Squadron climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest free-standing mountain. Yet, with nearly two years to prepare, Airman 1st Class Ryan Hockertlotz

  • Westover pilots help keep forces in Southwest Asia supplied, ready

    Two Patriot Wing pilots are deployed to the nerve center of Air Force operations in Southwest Asia where airlift can be a matter of life and death for the men and women they support in combat. In May, Lt. Col. Jennifer W. Farrelly and Maj. Vernon M. Wegener of the 337th Airlift Squadron began

  • Generals return, complete last flight

    Two flag-ranked officers piloted C-5s into history at Westover in June. Brig. Gen. Wade Farris, 439th Airlift Wing commander, returned June 4 from his four-month deployment to Southwest Asia, while Maj. Gen. Martin M. Mazick, 22nd Air Force commander, flew his final training mission on a C-5 June 3.

  • Westover medics team up for joint field exercise

    Once a year, Westover's Team Yankee medical exercise brings together good people and makes them even better. Team Yankee 2006, the premier New England joint military and civilian medical exercise, assembled teams of highly-experienced medical specialists and ran them through a mass casualty scenario

  • Reservist paddles famous New York waterway

    Master Sgt. Helen Crouch, 439th Aeromedical Staging Squadron medical technician, recently paddled a scenic route famous in American colonial history and took first place in the women's division of a racing canoe regatta. Sergeant Crouch maneuvered her racing canoe 70 miles down New York's

  • Marathon Men

    Two Patriot Wing reservists proved on Patriot's Day they can go the distance … a very, very long distance. On April 17, Technical Sgt. William J. Brown, 58th Aerial Port Squadron, and Senior Airman Michael P. Kraus, 439th Airlift Wing finance office, competed in the 110th running of the prestigious

  • Mission to Krygyzstan air base takes first shirt around world

    Master Sgt. Bert A. Quick is serving an AEF tour almost as far away from home as you can go - without starting to come back again. The deployed 439th Operations Support Squadron first sergeant is at Manas AB, in Central Asia’s Kyrgyzstan republic - a part of the world that is the last stop before

  • Westover athlete ‘presses’ to the top

    A Patriot Wing maintainer recently placed first in a World Bench Meet held in Reno, Nev. Senior Airman Rick F. Marrama, of the 439th MXS, won the November meet after bench pressing 556 pounds at a body weight of 198 pounds. Airman Marrama, who is ranked fifth in the country in the bench press, was

  • Civic leaders tour Davis-Monthan AFB, famous 'boneyard'

    Twenty-six area civic and business leaders flew aboard a Patriot Wing C-5 in February to tour a major active-duty Air Force base and to see the famous final resting place for military aircraft. Just minutes after getting airborne from Westover Feb. 15, groups of the civic leaders huddled in the C-5