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  • Local, state, federal teams work together

    Nine emergency response organizations, six hospitals and five localambulance companies took part in an exercise to test the National DisasterMedical System (NDMS) here on June 6. The exercise scenario involved how to handle the chain of eventsresulting from a cataclysmic 7.5 magnitude earthquake

  • Deployed Chaplain provides Prayers

    It is said that most large problems require a simple solution. I believe this to betrue, as did my grandparents. I’m completing a seven-month tour in northernItaly. As one can imagine, going from a stateside Reserve Wing to an overseasactive-duty base has required a tremendous reality-shift!What

  • Disaster training exercise set for June 6

    Westover will host a disaster training exercise June 6. The exercise will be held adjacent to the Base Hangar and the fire station.The exercise, designed to test the federal National Disaster Medical System, will begin at about noon. Participants include Westover reservists, the Massachusetts

  • Great New England Air Show draws close to 400,000

    An unprecedented air show with six headline acts --including two major North American aerial demonstration teams -- pulled innearly 400,000 visitors May 16-17. Mother Nature, which ultimately determines how high andfast the pilots can safely perform, cooperated both days of the Great NewEngland Air

  • K9 thanks wing commander

    Wing Commander Col. Al Lupenski receives thanks from a Berkshire County Police K9. Many K9 units from the area participated in the Massachusetts Police Working Dog Association's 2015 K9 Patrol/Narcotic/Explosives Detection Workshop, which took place on Westover Air Reserve Base in April.

  • Modern, vintage aircraft to celebrate Westover's 75th in May

    Someof the finest military and civilian pilots in the nation will take to the skiesover western Massachusetts for the 2015 Great New England Air Show May 16-17.Air show coordinators have devoted months to planning a wide array of currentand vintage military aircraft – flying into Westover from all

  • Air Force Announces Westover as Tanker Candidate Base

     Air Force officials announced that Westover Air Reserve Base is among four Air Force installations chosen as a possible siteto house the first Air Force Reserve-led KC-46A location. The KC-46 is the Air Force’s newest air refueling tanker.The other three candidate bases are Tinker AFB, Okla.,

  • PA chief, supply veteran win Air Force-level awards

    Two members of the Westover military-civilian team recently took top honors in their respective career fields at the Air Force level.   Air Force officials announced April 7 that Lt. Col. James Bishop and Nicole Remy are the selectees.    Bishop won the Air Force's Outstanding Communication Field

  • Westover 10 Fast Facts

    1.  Westover's economic impact was $221 millionin 2014, but that number doesn’t include the base’s 28 tenants, which addanother 1,680 people to its 710 civilians and 2,300military. Grand total: about 4,690 people working at Westover. 2.  Westover received $36 million in facilitiesfunding in 2014 –