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  • A gift of advice from your Safety Santa

    It is that time of year when New Englanders prep for the extreme weather events that seem to be part of the Holiday Season. I started early this year and put snow tires on my car in August. They melted before I was half way home.The following items are suggestions, not in order of importance and not

  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun.-Haitian Proverb Nearly three years after Haiti's lethal earthquake, and the 439th Airlift Wing's humanitarian response, I visited the recovering country.On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, with the

  • Emergency responders conduct exercise with Patriot Wing

    More than 125 representatives of regional hospitals, municipal and emergency workers, as well as Patriot Wing members converged on base Oct. 21 for a federal National Disaster Medical System exercise.Deploying C-5 aircraft, a helicopter and a parade of ambulances, among other emergency vehicles,

  • Two Westover units earn best-in-command

    Through the synergy of military and civilian personnel and continued support of operationsoverseas, the 439th Civil Engineering Squadron was recently named Air ForceReserve Command Civil Engineering Unit of the Year. Earlier this year, AFRC announcedthat the Westover Fire Department earned best in

  • Fourteen-hour hour mission delivers relief supplies

    While "Superstorm Sandy" moved inland across the Midwest, a Westover C-5B crew flew to March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to pick up 73 electrical workers and two utility trucks. Fourteen hours after taking off from Westover, they dropped unloaded the workers and equipment at Stewart Air National Guard

  • One-stop legal shop

    Do you have basic questions concerning legal matters, but do not know where to start? Check out the new Air Force Legal Assistance website at: https://aflegalassistance.law.af.mil  The site has basic information on a wide variety of legal issues such as deployment readiness, Wills, Powers of

  • Alcohol's Effects on the Body

    Drinking too much - on a single occasion or over time - can take a serious toll on your health. Here's how alcohol can affect your body:Brain: Alcohol interferes with the brain's communication pathways, and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior,

  • Westover C-5 and crew participate in round-the-clock relief ops

    In response to President Obama's call for the government to "lean forward" to support East Coast relief efforts, a Westover C-5B flew to March Air Reserve Base, Calif. There they picked up 73 electrical workers and two utility trucks. Five hours later, they dropped them off at Stewart Air National

  • Federal hurricane relief ops stage at Westover

        The morning before "Superstorm" Sandy was due to ravage the East Coast, maintenance and crews were hustling to evacuate all but four of Westover's 16 C-5s MacDill AFB, Fla. At the same time, dozens of tractor-trailer trucks rolled down a remote taxiway on the base's north end.     By Oct. 30, 75