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  • Hiring Our Heroes: Providing employment opportunities for those who served

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force preaches mission first, people always. It provides Airmen and their families with a network, purpose and paycheck.So what happens when it’s time to move or just time to move on? How do the bills get paid?On April 4, the Wright-Patterson Air Force

  • 88th Air Base Wing announces 2023 annual award winners

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Air Base Wing’s 2023 award winners were announced during a ceremony Feb. 9 at the Wright-Patt Club.Col. Travis Pond, 88 ABW commander; Chief Master Sgt. Lloyd Morales, the wing’s command chief; John Faulkner, 88 ABW vice director, and other base

  • Future Airmen get peek at Air Force culture in WPAFB tour

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Air Base Wing hosted 36 future Airmen from the 338th Recruiting Squadron for a daylong tour Jan. 11.Part of the Delayed Entry Program, where they prepare physically and mentally for military life while waiting for a basic training date, the recruits

  • AFIT instructors have students seeing double

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Twin brothers Connor and Kyle Egbert share a bond as strong as concrete. Which is appropriate, considering they’re both pavement instructors at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Civil Engineer School and self-described “pavement nerds.”Their love of

  • 88th Air Base Wing announces 2nd-quarter award winners

    The 88th Air Base Wing’s second-quarter award winners for 2023 were announced July 31. There were 12 award categories. Individual and team winners now go on to compete at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center level.

  • More than 50 Wright-Patt staff sergeants selected for promotion

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base hosted its technical sergeant release party July 14. Fifty-three Airmen made the list of new selects out of just 5,354 Air Force-wide.With the lowest rate selection in over 25 years, only 14.5% of Airmen made rank this year.“I