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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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ORION THE HUNTER

Occasionally Westover is visited by Navy P-3 Orion aircraft. Its mission is to patrol and detect enemy submarines. It has a distinctive “tail stinger” or “MAD Boom”. This stinger uses the fluctuation in the Earth’s magnet field to detect subs beneath the waves. 724 were originally built and the P-3 airframe joins the over 50 years in U.S. military service club - along with B-52 Stratofortress, KC-135 Stratotanker, and C-5 Galaxy. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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2018 Exercise Patriot Sands

Loadmasters with the 512th Airlift Wing marshal out affiliate equipment March 2, 2018, during the Patriot Sands Exercise at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Loadmasters ensure that equipment and personnel get from one point to the next safely. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hanna Smith)

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Exercise Patriot Sands 2018

The 439th Contingency Response Flight poses for a photo March 2, 2018, at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. This unit participated in the Patriot Sands exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hanna Smith)

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2018 Patriot Sands Exercise

The 439th Contingency Response Flight departs exercise Patriot Sands at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. on a Dover AFB C-5M Super Galaxy March 3, 2018. Throughout this exercise Airmen gained critical real world experience on how to upload and offload affiliate equipment and how to remain operationally ready to handle areas where air mobility operational support is insufficient or nonexistent. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Hanna Smith)

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180316-F-DT748-5774

K C-17, T-TAIL TIME >> No. 99 Squadron RAF makes a royal entrance at Westover in March, flying in from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire in England, 65 miles west of London. The base is the home to a number of cargo and refueling aircraft that include this C-17 Globemaster III. Tail number ZZ176 sports the puma salient tail artwork that harkens back to the units first aircraft the de Havillard DH.9 that had a single puma named engine. The No. 99 Squadron RAF got it’s start in World War I were it flew missions out of France along the Western front. (photos by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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180316-F-DT748-5763

K C-17, T-TAIL TIME >> No. 99 Squadron RAF makes a royal entrance at Westover in March, flying in from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire in England, 65 miles west of London. The base is the home to a number of cargo and refueling aircraft that include this C-17 Globemaster III. Tail number ZZ176 sports the puma salient tail artwork that harkens back to the units first aircraft the de Havillard DH.9 that had a single puma named engine. The No. 99 Squadron RAF got it’s start in World War I were it flew missions out of France along the Western front. (photos by Tech. Sgt. Malcolm Tevanian)

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20180304-F-MA984-0069

Tech. Sgt. Robert Smyth, Senior Airman Massari and Staff Sgt. Joe St. Peter, crew chiefs with the 439th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron use a tablet to review their pre-flight checklist. The 439th AMXS uses tablet technology in place of the older physical technical orders.

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20180304-F-MA984-0042

439th Air Maintenance Squadron uses tablets to select a technical order. Tablet technology provides airmen with access to every technical order needed to perform maintenance on aircraft. (Photo by Senior Airman Max Goldberg)

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Snow 'n go

As a Patriot Wing C-5M Super Galaxy awaits at the runway for takeoff, an Air National Guard C-130 Hercules flies a low approach. while a Westover snow removal truck hauls away snow from the flight line. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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Turn and churn

A C-5M Super Galaxy assigned to the 439th Airlift Wing, Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass., taxies to the flight line while blowing snow behind it following a training mission. The C-5 is the largest aircraft in the U.S. military. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Poster

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Weather satellite loads up in Colorado

A 15-member crew, including a public affairs Airman, supported a recent Air Mobility Command tasking, as the Airmen departed Westover Dec. 2 for Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. Upload of a Lockheed-Martin-built weather satellite began at 4 a.m. on Dec. 4. The C-5M Super Galaxy, carrying the satellite and a large tractor-trailer and supplies took off from Buckley AFB, Dec. 4 at a gross weight of 650,000 pounds. Crews off-loaded the GOES-S weather satellite at the Kennedy Space Center Dec. 5. (U.S. Air Force photos/Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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Weather satellite loads up in Colorado

A 15-member crew, including a public affairs Airman, supported a recent Air Mobility Command tasking, as the Airmen departed Westover Dec. 2 for Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. Upload of a Lockheed-Martin-built weather satellite began at 4 a.m. on Dec. 4. The C-5M Super Galaxy, carrying the satellite and a large tractor-trailer and supplies took off from Buckley AFB, Dec. 4 at a gross weight of 650,000 pounds. Crews off-loaded the GOES-S weather satellite at the Kennedy Space Center Dec. 5. (U.S. Air Force photos/Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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Weather satellite loads up in Colorado

A 15-member crew, including a public affairs Airman, supported a recent Air Mobility Command tasking, as the Airmen departed Westover Dec. 2 for Buckley Air Force Base, Colo. Upload of a Lockheed-Martin-built weather satellite began at 4 a.m. on Dec. 4. The C-5M Super Galaxy, carrying the satellite and a large tractor-trailer and supplies took off from Buckley AFB, Dec. 4 at a gross weight of 650,000 pounds. Crews off-loaded the GOES-S weather satellite at the Kennedy Space Center Dec. 5. (U.S. Air Force photos/Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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Patriot Wing airlifts weather satellite

A 15-member Patriot Wing crew teamed up Dec. 2 to criss-cross America while delivering a weather satellite to Florida during a three-day Total Force mission. The GOES-S satellite, which weighed 6,000 pounds, was itself a light load for the huge transport, but Lockheed – the satellite’s manufacturer -- had to transport it safely for its Dec. 4 trip from Buckley Air Force Base, Colo., to the Kennedy Space Center landing strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Crews nestled the satellite in a tractor-trailer that weighed 90,000 pounds. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Andrew Biscoe)

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