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  • Exceptional Hanscom teen wins Youth of the Year honor

    Hanscom teen Derrick Pizarro was recently selected as Youth of the Year for the base and competed against other Boys & Girls Club members for the Massachusetts Youth of the Year title and a $1,000 college scholarship. As the new Youth of the Year for Hanscom's Youth Center, this 15-year-old is a

  • Privately owned weapons require proper registration and storage

    With many new families arriving at Hanscom, it's important to know the guidelines and restrictions for having weapons on base. All personnel residing in dormitories, Visiting Officers' Quarters (VOQ), Visiting Airmen Quarters (VAQ) and Temporary Lodging Facility (TLF) are not authorized to store

  • FSGLI covers family members

    On Nov. 1, 2001, Family Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance (FSGLI), was established for spouses and dependent children of servicemembers insured under the SGLI program.FSGLI provides a maximum of $100,000 of life insurance coverage for spouses, not to exceed the amount of SGLI coverage the

  • Tuskegee Airmen honored at bridge dedication

    Members of the community, including the Patriot Honor Guard, came together July 17 to dedicate a bridge over Morton Street in Dorchester on American Legion Highway to honor the many contributions made by the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.Last spring, Mayor Thomas M. Menino provided the

  • Hanscom makes fit families a focus

    For the past several years, Hanscom has been helping families get out and get fit courtesy of the Air Force's FitFamily program. With many more events in the works, staff at the Fitness and Sports Center as well as the Youth Center are reaching out for more family participation. "The Air Force wants

  • Library closing, computer access still available

    The library will be repurposing its facility starting July 23 in preparation for the Hanscom STARBASE program arriving this SeptemberSTARBASE is a youth educational program sponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. Students participate in "hands-on, minds-on"

  • Wolfenbarger sets the stage at commander’s call

    Air Force Materiel Command commander Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger laid out her expectations and the command's priorities in a commander's call here July 16. The general was on base to officiate the transition of the Electronic Systems Center to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. In expressing