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  • Tommy Lasorda visits Hanscom

    Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager and baseball hall-of-famer Tommy Lasorda spoke to more than 100 Hanscom Airmen and civilians last Friday afternoon at the Hanscom Conference Center. The 82-year-old Lasorda spoke to the crowd for over an hour, sharing jokes and stories that provoked plenty of

  • Personal survival resources available to all Airmen

    The Air Force's Wingman Stand Down 2010 was in May, but that doesn't mean Airmen's focus should shift away from safety and well-being."As the Air Force enters into this year's 101 Critical Days of Summer, I would like to reinforce the importance of the Wingman concept," said Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air

  • Air base wing commander closes one chapter, begins another

    As Col. Charles F. Thompson, 66th Air Base Wing commander, departs the base after serving here for nearly three years in different capacities, he leaves as one chapter is closing and another is just beginning. The colonel's new assignment at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, will be as the deputy

  • 653 EID calls for prototype, experimentation candidates

    Officials from the 653rd Electronic Systems Wing's Enterprise Integration Division are looking for candidate experimentation and prototyping initiatives that they can consider funding in fiscal year 2011.Command and Control Constellation (C2C) program resources will be used to fund successful

  • ESC mourns loss of former civilian leader

    A decades-long member and leader of the Hanscom and Electronic Systems Center communities, Thomas P. O'Mahony, passed away June 16. Mr. O'Mahony culminated a 43-year federal career with the Air Force as executive director of the Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom. He enlisted as an airman in the

  • ESC works to enhance air traffic control for Kyrgyzstan

    The U.S. Air Force is now heavily engaged in efforts to relieve suffering that has resulted from ethnic unrest and a widening humanitarian crisis in Kyrgyzstan.Unfortunately, the current crisis is delaying Foreign Military Sales efforts led by the Electronic Systems Center here that would support

  • Get ready for Heroes Homecoming and Summer Bash

    More than 30 Hanscom personnel who have been deployed over the past six months and their families will be honored next Friday during the Heroes Homecoming celebration in Memorial Park, behind the clinic. The pep rally style event will begin at approximately 2:30 p.m., immediately followed by Summer

  • Summer months bring ticks

    Individuals who spend time outdoors or have pets that go outdoors should beware of ticks. Ticks are small bloodsucking bugs and are the leading carriers of diseases to humans in the United States, second only to mosquitoes worldwide. Tick-borne diseases are a group of illnesses that people get from