The
2025 Newsletter
and Registration form
are now available. The newsletter has a
registration form and you can download either.
Book your hotel reservations at the Dayton Marriott
using the link below.
NOTE!! IMPORTANT!! When using the link below, you
will see the start date as April 22. The reunion
starts on the 23rd. which is the traditional check-in
day. Any activities will begin on the 24th. DO NOT use
the 22nd as your check-in day as you will get a "sold
out" notice. You can adjust your arrival and
depart dates to suit your plans.
Here's your
reservation link
to make
reservations:
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Book your group
rate for Air
Weather
Association
Reunion
You will find
the information
for your online
reservation link
below. If you
have questions
or need help
with the link,
please do not
hesitate to ask.
We appreciate
your business
and look forward
to a successful
event.
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Event Summary:
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Air Weather
Association
Reunion
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Start Date:
Wednesday, April
23, 2025
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End Date:
Sunday, April
27, 2025
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Last Day to
Book: Friday,
March 28, 2025
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Hotel(s)
offering your
special group
rate:
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Marriott at the
University of Dayton for
148 USD per night
Book your group rate for Air
Weather Association Reunion
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Missing/Lost members list.
We have no valid contact info for these folks who are
members of the AWA. If you know anyone on the
list, please have them get in touch with us.
See the list
The AFWX.ORG test site is available
afwx.org. It is a work in
progress so some links may not work.
17 Jan 24 interview with Travis Sanford thats pretty
good/interesting. He spent a few years at DM before
transitioning over to the SOWT side of the house. Click
link below for podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQoxcM-tybE&t=1s
January 2024 Newsletter now available,
read it here.
Combat Weather site is back online at
www.greyberet.org.
Thanks to Johnny Reid for the heads up.
Reunion 2023
in Sterling, VA is in the books! Reunion pictures are
finally available for viewing. Some sets have multiple
pages.
Have a
look here.
During the Reunion, at the Saturday Banquet, tribute was
paid to Kevin and Carol Lavin for all their
contributions to the Air Weather Association.
Several videos are available through this link,
Watch the Videos. The videos are only available
through that link.
2022
Newsletter
Roster updated
December 2023
To help remember and honor our fallen weather warriors
on MEMORIAL DAY 2021,
member Craig Kirwin produced a video,
https://youtu.be/j_1gv8nzxq4 showing names and many
photos.
Craig has been researching the fallen
warriors of USAAF and USAF Weather Personnel for many
years and has found many more for this video since the
last printed list in
http://airweaassn.org/reports/AFW37-12/AFW3712.pdf
THANKS CRAIG!
The first digital only publication of the USAF THOR'S NOTAM Weather
Airman's Magazine is now available to interested AWA members. Thanks to all those who
contributed to the magazine! It is filed as a pdf document at:
https://www.airweaassn.org/library/THORSNOTAMV6Digital24Jul2020.pdf
AWS
Forecaster Memo 300-005 now online
Single Station Analysis &
Forecasting
Conversion Tables, Miscellaneous Chart
A History of the Military Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite
Program
Air Force Weather Agency redesignated as
557th Weather Wing
Air
Force Weather: Our Heritage, 1937-2012 Second Edition now
available!
Air Weather
Service: A Brief History 1937-1991 now available as well.
Contains information not covered in
any other history booklet.
the 8th Air
Force Museum
The Library section has been completely revamped to
include links to all available printed material along
with many new folders containing over 1000 images from
our past. Some of these images are before World
War I with images from World War II, Korea, Vietnam,
Aircraft, Weather Instruments and Equipment and more.
Use the "Library" link on the left side menu to begin
your visit.
Searching for WWII information?
Try this link.
26WS photos circa
1944-45 courtesy Craig Kirwin
Photos from
Phillips Airfield, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD in 1955
Photos
from Soc Trang, Vietnam taken by Ken Daly back in 1964-1965.
The Air Weather Association is now on


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Want to see what the weather business was like in
the early 1940's?
Many interesting images were found in the Library of Congress
archives and have been put together here.
The vast majority are of the Weather Bureau offices that were and to
a certain extent still are at Reagan National Airport in Washington
D.C. You can take a trip
back in time here.
Over
120 photographs from WW
II and before...many illustrate pieces of weather equipment.
The
AFWA History office has sent us numerous cd's with lots of
historical information and images that are being cataloged here.
The first set to be stored is a
1st Weather Wing history from 1954 to
1968. We also have, so far, a set of images that all have
aircraft in them. Many are from the
55th, 56th and 58th Weather
Recon Squadrons. No info is available other than the image
so if you can provide some details, we will add that to the image. The images have been shrunk down for the web but we have
the high quality images available. If you would like any of
the images sent to you, please contact the
webmaster.
Thanks to the AFWA History folks for giving us
a great deal of information during the reunion. A partial listing has
been added with more to come soon. They put together an "Air
Force Weather Professional Reading List" on CD-ROM that is now
available here for the first time. These files are quite large
and will take some time to download. All are in Adobe PDF
format. Click here for the latest.
AFWA complied a "Heritage Celebration" video that was previewed at
the Omaha reunion banquet. The video is available as a Windows
Media download
and as a Real Player download video.
Also available as a streaming video.
You will need Macromedia Flash to view the streaming video.
AFWA History office put together
picture postcards for table decorations at the banquet. Here
are the complete series of photos throughout the years.
See them here!
Weather Tech Manual
list and Equipment Listing
Chief Justice Rehnquist - AWA
member
The Air Weather
Association (AWA), a nonprofit, all volunteer association of nearly
5,000 past and present members of US Air Force Weather units including
ANG, USAFR and US Army Air Corps units, salutes all individuals
presently serving in US Air Force Weather units.
Please know that we support you and your mission. We thank you for
your great work, your sacrifices and those of your families, and for
your commitment to duty, honor, country.
We send best wishes to you and your families for good health,
safety, happiness and for great success in all endeavors worldwide.
AWA ROSTER
The ROSTER is now available online for
members only! You will have to get a username and password to view the
roster. Please include your name in your request so it can be checked
off the roster and then you will be e-mailed your username and password
in a text file. If the webmaster can't verify your name against the
roster, your access will not be approved.
Get your user ID and Password
now. Please keep in mind that the roster is a fluid document that
is continually under revision. It will be updated online periodically.
The revisions will have a date at the top of the pages to show when it
was last updated. Please DO NOT send any
changes (address, phone, etc.) to the webmaster. Any revisions to the
database need to be sent to the AWA Locator,
Al Mongeon,
at: lightning6b@gmail.com
If you received your username and password,
view the Roster now!
Please remember, the user name and password have a mix of UPPER and
lower case letters along with special characters. You must
enter them exactly as they were sent to you.
Visit the Weather
Recon web site for news about the Air Weather Reconnaissance
Association (AWRA).
At
the request of many AWA members, a
Necrology
(departures) section is added for the information of all members.
Submissions can be sent to the AWA Newsletter Editor.