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  • Command names Smith as Key Spouse of the Year

    The wife of a Westover reservist is Air Force Reserve Command's 2011 Key Spouse of the Year. Ms. Smith, Key Spouse Co-Chair, is credited with revitalizing the base Key Spouse program by continuing to recruit and train new members. When reservists in the wing were mobilized in 2010, she worked with

  • Employers learn importance of Reservists, mission, aircraft

    The 94th Airlift Wing hosted civilian employers of Reservists from Westover Air Reserve Base June 14-15 during an Employer Support for Guard and Reserve Boss Lift to Dobbins Air Reserve Base.Westover ARB, the nation's largest Air Force Reserve Command installation, is located approximately 90 miles

  • MXS Airmen build new C-5B model

    By day and night, they repair the Air Force's biggest aircraft. On a smaller scale - and symbolically at the front gate, they've added a C-5B to the base inventory - a model with a 19-foot wingspan.Several 439th Maintenance Squadron Airmen spent several months assembling the 1:12 scale C-5. It

  • 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