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  • Quality service a priority for Hanscom Vet Clinic

    One of the many "crown jewels" here at Hanscom is the quality service and care provided by the veterinary clinic to the hundreds of military family pet owners who reside on and off base. The staff of the base veterinarian treatment facility, headed by Dr. Heather Mazzaccaro, NCOIC, Army Sgt Robert

  • Hanscom kids head back to school

    The smell of a fresh box of crayons, the brisk zip of a new backpack and the perfect pink of un-smudged erasers can only mean one thing: a new school year is about to begin. When students return to the Hanscom schools next week, they will find that faculty and staff have been busy this summer

  • HanscomRIDES makes carpooling a breeze

    Hanscom commuters have a new tool at their finger tips that can help save time, money and the environment. The new Commuter eboard Web site is available to employees through the ESC Centernet quick links section. Once there employees can access information on such things as shuttle services,

  • NATO AWACS proves interrogator interoperability at operational event

    Late last month, flying at an observation point 100 miles off the coast of Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., a NATO AWACS took part in six-hour combat scenarios that demonstrated interoperability between its prototype interrogator and various joint platforms that interrogate in the same

  • New AWACS seats will make long missions less painful

    For operators occupying the 19 control stations aboard an E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, 12-to-14-hour missions will become a bit more comfortable thanks to new ergonomically designed seats now being installed on the U.S. fleet. AWACS is the first of five legacy platforms to

  • USO brings families together through reading

    USO New England offers a number of programs and services to military members and their families. One such program, United Through Reading, brings children together with their deployed parent or guardian through books. United Through Reading is a program that was started in 1991, by a California

  • Awareness, resource utilization essential for suicide prevention

    In some of the tragedies, warning signs seem obvious after the fact. In others, it appears to have come completely out of the blue. Regardless of the scenario, suicide is devastating for those left behind to wonder why it happened and how they could have stopped it. In an alarming trend, military