Westover Dog Patch War Games Exercise
Col. Howard Clark, 439th Airlift Wing vice commander directs operations from the command center tent of the exercise along with Col Karen Magnus, 439th Mission Support Group commander to his left. During the SUPER UTA in June a number of training excercises took place around base. In Dog Patch the civil engineers, services personnel, personelists from Force Support Squadron, command staff, and aircraft maintainers; trained in a bare base scenario. A number of scenarios where played out giving all participants training in a bare base operation, including the ability to survive during a chemical attack, parameter security, feeding and keeping the Citizen Airmen hydrated.