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  • Seabees to move

    Naval Mobile Construction Battalion-27, the Naval Reserve Seabees, are moving from Westover to their new home in Gulfport, Miss., in October. The Seabees have been assigned to Westover since 2010, and originally came from Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine.

  • CMSAF stresses total-force unity

    There is no distinction among Airmen within the Air Force components when it comes to how they perform their jobs, how they live up to standards and how they embrace the service's core values, said Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody during a visit here June 24-25."Robins (AFB) is a

  • Westover wing commander to head to Pentagon in September

    Brig. Gen. Steven Vautrain will end his tenure in September here to take his new job at the Pentagon. The general has been commander of the 439th Airlift Wing since August 2011. He will be assigned as deputy director of strategic planning for the Air Force.He is the eighth wing commander to be

  • Medical Readiness Exercise set for July

    A medical readiness exercise will be held July 12 in the Base Hangar. This exercise, scheduled to begin by about 9 a.m., will involve aeromedical reservists from Westover and the 911th Airlift Wing, Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, Pa.

  • Christmas in July planned for A UTA

    The Commander's Cup continues July 12, at 5 p.m., with a softball tournament at the base softball fields. Prizes will include the best holiday-themed dugout and best holiday uniforms. A cookout at the Westover Club will follow the game, featuring DJ Kuls, raffles and prizes. Other scheduled

  • Westover airlifts 26 tons of aid to nicaragua

    A training mission this month doubled as a humanitarian relief effort for reserve airmen from the 439th Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. Thirteen Airmen delivered 26 tons of cargo to Augusto Cesar Sandino International Airport in Nicaragua, June 10. This Denton Amendment mission

  • C-5s, Airmen to be cut from Patriot Wing

    More than a dozen media gathered April 28 as Brig. Gen. Steven Vautrain, 439th Airlift Wing commander, held a news conference announcing force cuts at Westover.Standing outside base operations in front of a pair of C-5s, the wing commander said that half of the 439th Airlift Wing's C-5 fleet - and

  • Westover Strong -- May

    During the May Westover Strong event held in the Westover Club on the A UTA, Airmen learned about how to finance their education from TSgt. Samantha Cooper, 439th Force Support Squadron, and CMSgt. David Carbin, 439th AW command chief. The next event, in which base education and training Airmen will

  • CSAF describes Air Force’s ‘precarious’ position

    years of high-tempo operations, the Air Force is in a precarious position, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III told the Senate Armed Services Committee May 6.The general was joined in his testimony by his fellow members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including the Joint Chiefs chairman,

  • Col. Hancock, Chief Colucci retirement

    The Patriot wing will honor two long-time Westover reservists, Col. Jeffrey Hancock, 439th Airlift Wing vice commander, and CMSgt. Anthony Colucci, 337th AS flight engineer, with retirement ceremonies at the Westover Conference Center, at 3 p.m. June 7.