Grid map marker

Staff Sgt. Michael Miller (right), Lt. Col. Scott Katz and Staff Sgt. Justin Ames identify damaged facilities on a map simulating their forward deployed location. Airmen from organizations across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base participated in an exercise May 13 which tested response to conventional and chemical attacks. Katz and Miller are with the 88th Mission Support Group. Ames is a defender with the 88th Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

Attention to detail

Staff Sgt. Michael Miller, information management specialist with the 88th Mission Support Group, records unexploded ordnance information following a mock attack. Miller was among Airmen from across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base participating in an exercise May 13 testing command and control procedures and response to conventional and chemical attacks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Derek Kaufman)

711th Human Performance Wing complex

Artist conception of the 711th Human Performance Wing complex to be constructed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force graphic by by KZF/BWSC)

AFMC Outstanding Airmen

Air Force Materiel Command’s Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, Tech. Sgt. Tammy K. Shaw (center), poses with Gen. Bruce Carlson, AFMC commander (left), and Chief Master Sgt. William C. Gurney, command chief for AFMC. Sergeant Shaw is assigned to the 88th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. She was selected from 11 nominees during a ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force April 2. (Air Force photo by Ben Strasser)

Wright-Patterson Airmen support Pacific Lifeline

From left, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Melanie Duffy, Capt. Jacqueline Johnson and Senior Airman Azziz Alisasis stand by to load simulated patients into a U.S. Army UH-1 Huey helicopter Feb. 4, 2008, during exercise Pacific Lifeline on the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands, Hawaii. The exercise is intended to test the military's ability to rapidly deploy a trained and equipped team anywhere in the Pacific in response to a humanitarian assistance mission or disaster scenario. Duffy and Johnson are both from the 88th Medical Group at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and Alisasis is from the 724th Aeromedical Staging Facility at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stephen Schester)

Providing safer blood products faster to wounded warriors

Staff Sgt. Amanda Winders checks on the platelet donation site of Army Capt. Susan Hawley to ensure the captain's blood is flowing properly while she donates life-saving blood products Jan. 28 at the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The platelet donation process takes about 90 minutes to complete. Though a time consuming process, many lives are saved by donations. Sergeant Winders is a 332nd Expeditionary Medical Support Squadron lab technician deployed from Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Captain Hawley is a 546th Area Support Medical Company doctor deployed from Fort Hood, Texas. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)