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  • 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

  • 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

  • And then there were none, final C-5A departs Westover

    C-5A Galaxy 70-0461 departs September 7, 2017, from Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. 0461 was the final C-5A in the Air Force's inventory and is destined to retire at the boneyard in Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

  • Westover maintainers square away C-5 Galaxy nose-landing gear repair

    The Air Force's largest aircraft, better known as C-5 Galaxies, have been streaking the skies over western Massachusetts since the late 1980s.The mission of these flying behemoths is transportation of outsized cargo all over the world. The Westover Air Reserve Base aircraft are specifically tasked

  • The Big E's 2017 Military Appreciation day to be September 15

     The Big E's 2017 Military Appreciation Day is scheduled for September 15 from opening of the fair to close at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, members holding a valid military identification card can show their I.D. at the ticket counter to gain free admission to

  • Westover C-5M noses out on flightline

    Three C-5M Super Galaxies sit on the flightline August 31, 2017, at Westover Air Reserve Base. Westover ARB is tasked with an airlift mission of providing global reach capabilities with mission-ready citizen Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Hanna N. Smith)

  • Westover Contingency Response

    WESTOVER AIR RESERVE BASE, Mass. -- Westover Airmen worked alongside members of the 512th Contingency Response Flight to support Sabre Guardian, an active duty army exercise that took place in Hungary. Collectively, they moved close to 2,000 personnel, including over 1,000 combat jumpers, and