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  • New Law Authorizes Reservists to Respond to Homeland Disasters

    New authority in this year's Defense Department authorization act allows the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps reserves to be called to duty in response to natural disasters or emergencies in the homeland, and also to be mobilized for extended periods to support theater security missions around

  • Volunteers build wounded Marine a home near Westover

    When amputee and Marine Sgt. Joshua Bouchard moved in with his father in Granby, Mass., after three years of intensive physical therapy, his wheelchair wouldn't fit through the bedroom door."Dad had to cut out a section of the door jamb so it would fit," said Sgt. Bouchard, who lost a leg from a

  • Westover Patriots excel in Patriot Sands

    The 439th Airlift Control Flight led deployed operations for Exercise Patriot Sands at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., from April 25 to May 1. Seven Reserve units and a federal agency teamed up for an airlift training exercise simulating deployed bare-base conditions with limited support. In addition

  • 2012 air show set to take off in August

    The 2012 Great New England Air Show will feature an armada of modern and vintage military aircraft.The air show's theme is "A Salute to the Greatest Generation." It will be held Aug. 4-5 across the entire flight line.Vintage aircraft scheduled to be on display and in the air include:B-17 Flying

  • Westover Chiefs Council Scholarship

    The Westover Chiefs Council is currently accepting applications for a $500 college scholarship award paid to a 439th Airlift Wing enlisted Airmen E-1 to E-8. Also, a $500 scholarship award paid to an E-1 to E-8 family member (spouse, son or daughter) for the 2012 FALL semester. The scholarship

  • Sentry program

    The Sentry program encourages wing commanders to permit non-profit organizations and other government agencies to use Westover facilities for events (within mission restraints).The Sentry program is designed for use by wing units which wish to conduct an event that would be out of their normal scope

  • Westover teams with local area firefighters

    Westover and local area emergency workers train hand-in-hand on many areas of the base. Their mutual aid rapport underscores cooperative training amid a spirit of teamwork with use of the base's training facilities.A recent example happened April 10, as the Chicopee Fire Department's newest recruits

  • Training preps UMass ROTC cadets for deployment challenges

    Twenty-nine local ROTC underclassmen cadets headed to the base's "Dogpatch" area for field survival and resistance training April 14.The mission of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst cadets: survive, fight and win. Their scenario: A peaceful but struggling village, under constant "attack" by

  • C-5A 'triple zero three' flies final mission

    "'Triple zero three' heavy, cleared to Davis-Monthan."To stay.That aviation dialogue was part of a veteran airlifter's last mission from Westover in April, as the 42-year-old C-5A lumbered into the sky on its final mission to the military "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. A former

  • Patriot Wing, ESGR team up for June Bosslift

    A June 14-15 Bosslift from Westover will take employers up-close to the manufacturer of the C-5. The C-5 will depart Westover early June 14 for Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., and will return the late afternoon of June 15. The Lockheed-Martin Co. occupies a large portion of the Dobbins