• Readiness exercise sharpens skills

    A simulation involving a disgruntled employee whose job was being cut was part of an active shooter scenario Oct. 30 during 88th Air Base Wing readiness exercises conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The exercise was held at Bldg. 676, Area B, site of the Air Force Research Laboratory DOD

  • Career toolboxes get a boost from 5 days of classes, assessments

    Several hundred employees at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base chose to develop new skills for their career toolbox, enhance their knowledge of the base and learn ways to better care for themselves through nutrition and exercise during the final Focus Week of 2012. Held the week of Oct. 15, the

  • Without "To the Colors", saluting not necessary during Reveille

    Recently Wright-Patterson AFB changed its morning routine of playing "To the Colors" immediately following Reveille. This change caused a little confusion and I'd like to clarify.Reveille is a traditional bugle call song that was originally meant for roll call and a way to start the duty day.

  • CCR honored as finalist with Security Leadership Award

    The Air Force Institute of Technology's Center for Cyberspace Research Advanced Cyber Education team was a finalist for the ISC2 2012 U.S. Government Information Security Leadership Award. Several members of the ACE Team attended the ISC2 Inc. awards gala Oct. 16 in Washing-ton, D.C. The 17-member

  • WPAFB to celebrate “Hire a Vet Month” with job fair

    The WPAFB Airman and Family Readiness Center will pay tribute to National "Hire a Vet Month" with a Veteran's Job Fair Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wright State University Nutter Center. The event is open to military veterans, active-duty military, reservist, guard and their families,

  • AFRL plays major role in historic near-space jump

    For more than nine minutes Oct. 14, an international audience watched as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner egressed from a capsule 128,000 feet above the earth and fell toward the planet reaching speeds of 834 miles per hour, to become the first person to break the sound barrier outside a

  • Mobile App to help 'guide' military members

    Wouldn't it be great to receive a weather report, a listing of the day's activities and directions to important buildings as you travel from base to base? All that and more is possible by accessing a new mobile application that brings the latest guidebook to the user's fingertips and contains

  • AFMC Intelligence Squadron redesignated as 21st Intelligence Squadron

    One of the last key pieces of the new five-center construct of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) fell in place Oct. 12. As part of its move from HQ AFMC to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the AFMC Intelligence Squadron, based at Wright-Patter-son Air Force Base, was redesignated

  • SR 444 Milestones report: Gate taking shape

    The arrival of a new, prefabricated Gate 1A guard shack is one of the most recent highlights of the State Route 444 project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The 1.5-mile-long federal portion of SR 444 that bisected Area A was closed Oct. 9 to improve base security.The guard shack was delivered

  • Milestones report: SR 444 project update

    Traffic patterns at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base have been successfully changed with the Oct. 9 closure of the federal portion of State Route 444 that bisected Area A. Everything went smoothly, with the 88th Civil Engineer Directorate and 88th Security Forces Squadron immediately installing