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  • SFS Airman named one of ‘Top 5 Massachusetts Airmen’

    A member of the 66th Security Forces Squadron here recently learned he is one of five Airmen selected by the Air Force Association of Massachusetts as the commonwealth’s “Top 5 Massachusetts Airmen.”Tech. Sgt. Harvey Holloway, NCO in charge of training for 66 SFS, will receive his award along with

  • Tickets on sale for Combat Dining In

    The Team Hanscom Combat Dining In will take place Sept. 16 on base for all active duty, Guard and Reserve personnel. This year’s event will take place at the softball field near the Fitness Center. Organizers will transform the field with camouflage netting, piles of sandbags and more.

  • AF to reduce additional duties

    Airmen need more time to focus on their core missions.Air Force senior leaders said that’s the message they received from Airmen and it’s the reason they made the decision to reduce additional duties.In a memorandum to Airmen released Aug. 19, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James and Air

  • School liaison available to assist base families

    More than 600 school-aged children here will soon head back to school to begin a new school year. For those new to the area, this school year will be at a new school with unfamiliar surroundings.To help those students successfully transition, the Hanscom school liaison specialist brings schools,

  • Safety superintendent captures NSC award

    A member of the 66th Air Base Group Safety Office has won a National Safety Council “Rising Stars of Safety” Award for 2016.Master Sgt. Ross Weatherford, the superintendent of the installation safety office, received the award for his commitment to safety programs at Hanscom AFB.

  • Volunteers needed to keep Loan Locker open

    The Airman and Family Readiness Center here manages a free Loan Locker to provide newly arrived and departing active duty and civilian employees a place to borrow household items as they await the arrival of their own items.Among the items offered at the Loan Locker are sleeping mats, kitchen items

  • Ceremony to induct technical sergeants as senior NCOs

    Thirteen technical sergeants will cross into the senior noncommissioned ranks during the annual senior NCO Induction Ceremony Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. at the Minuteman Commons here.The ceremony is the culmination of a four-day class the promoting technical sergeants will participate in, called the Senior

  • CDC issues Zika Health Advisory

    The Florida Department of Health has identified an area in the Miami-Dade and Broward counties with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Because of this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory for pregnant women and women of reproductive age to avoid