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  • Political dos and don'ts during campaign season

    With the 2008 presidential election less than one year away, TV newscasts and newspaper articles are filled with the latest news about the candidates running for office.While exercising their right to vote is the duty of all Americans, federal employees, both military and civilian, should understand the laws and regulations that outline what
  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass -- Senior Airman Kimberly Stukes, operating at a deployed location, accesses some of the new weather products recently delivered by Electronic Systems Center’s 651st Electronic Systems Squadron and prepares to disseminate information to interested customers both on- and off-base. (Courtesy photo.)

    ESC installations put weather on the wire

    By installing a key weather information dissemination tool at two locations in Southwest Asia last month, the Electronic Systems Center has greatly improved access to critical, real-time data for warfighters in theater. The New Tactical Forecasting System, or NTFS, allows weather-condition data picked up by newly installed sensor suites to flow
  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Senior Airman Jacqueline Bridges, Base Chapel, is introduced on stage, along with other Airman Leadership School students, during the Nov. 30 ALS graduation ceremony held at the Minuteman Club. ALS is a five-week course and the first step of Professional Military Education for all enlisted Airmen. The course is required to be taken in residence by active-duty servicemembers prior to being promoted to the rank of staff sergeant and is a requirement for all Airmen to be a rater on Enlisted Performance Reports. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Wyatt.)

    Airman Leadership School Graduation

  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Judy Tipton, Airman and Family Readiness Center, briefs a class during aTransitional Assistance Program seminar. TAP seminars are designed to assist voluntarily and involuntarily separating or retiring servicemembers make a successful career transition. The Hanscom A&FRC was named the best in the Air Force in the small base category for 2007. (U.S. Air Force stock photo)

    Hanscom Airman and Family Readiness Center named best in AF

    The 2007 Air Force Mission Support Awards board confirmed what many at Hanscom have known all along - that Hanscom's Airman and Family Readiness Center is the best in the Air Force. The Air Force announced Nov. 30 that Hanscom's Airman and Family Readiness Center is the winner in the small base category, joining Osan AB, Korea, the winner in the
  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Dr. Bela Maytas (standing) from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health briefs Hanscom Emergency Operations Center members during a multi-agency exercise held on base Nov. 28. During the exercise, base officials and local responders tested their ability to detect and respond to a hazardous substance emergency. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jan Abate.)

    BRE made more realistic through off-base agency interaction

    A simulated biological agent attack at Hanscom was the scenario for the Base Readiness Exercise held Nov. 28. The simulated attack took place in building 1614.The main goal of the exercise was for base leaders to realize that the base had been under attack following a simulated death of a military member assigned to building 1614 along with
  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Hanscom lieutenants (from left) Holly Chernushin, 66th Comptroller Squadron, Josh Neustrom, 851st Electronic Systems Group, Karl Artis III, 66th Mission Support Squadron, and Felisa Dyrud, 66 MSS, sort and pack donated clothing items and blankets on Nov. 28. The clothes and blankets will be sent to Afghanistan and distributed to poor people living there. The lieutenants organized the clothing and blanket drive, which resulted in more than a dozen boxes of donated items, days before the Thanksgiving holiday as a means for Hanscom personnel to share their wealth with those less fortunate. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Lisa Spilinek)

    LTs collect clothes for Afghanistan

  • Heroes' Homecoming will be held Dec. 5 in the Aero Club Hangar at noon. The event has been declared an alternate duty location.

    Heroes’ Homecoming designated alternate duty location

    Get ready to clap and cheer. The heroes of Hanscom will be officially welcomed home during a ceremony in the Aero Club Hangar Dec. 5. The event, which will begin at noon and is open to the entire base populace, will recognize the deployed contributions of Airmen assigned to Hanscom who have returned from the Area of Responsibility since the last
  • Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds and his wife, Marcia, meet with U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) at the North Suburban Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and dinner Nov. 19 at the Hyatt Hotel in Woburn, Mass. Congressman Tierney, who represents the Sixth District, was guest speaker at the chamber event. (Photo by Joe Brown.)

    ESC Commander attends North Suburban Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, dinner

  • December is National Drunk, Drugged Driving Prevention month

     Every 31 minutes someone in the U.S. dies from an alcohol-related motor vehicle crash, and every two minutes someone is non-fatally injured according to 2006 statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. With December being National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention month, personnel involved in Hanscom's Alcohol and Drug
  • HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Brig. Gen. Lori Robinson, commander of the 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., addresses members of the Electronic Systems Center’s 551 Electronic Systems Group at Hanscom Nov. 27. The general spoke about the comprehensive mission of her wing, its partnership with the program managers at Hanscom, and about future capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jan Abate.)

    General focuses on mission, future of AWACS

    The E-3 Airborne Early Warning and Control System and its crews have led the way into battle many times in the past and are achieving combat excellence today, the commander of the nation's only AWACS flying wing said here Nov. 27. The focus now, however, is on the future, Brig. Gen. Lori Robinson told members of Electronic Systems Center's 551st
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