• Marathon needs more volunteers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 26th annual Air Force Marathon is less than a month away, and plenty of positions remain for people who want to help out.  More than 1,000 volunteers are still needed this year, officials said, as registration is only 35 percent filled. The sign-up period

  • AFSA selects local chapter trustee for international award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Staff Sgt. Misty Hobbs was presented the 2021 Air Force Sergeants Association International Member of the Year Award during the organization’s annual convention Aug. 7-10 in Las Vegas.The award goes to the AFSA member who most demonstrates exceptionally

  • More than a road: The story behind Wright-Patt’s Kuglics Boulevard

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Kuglics Boulevard on Area A, which runs from the 88th Security Forces Squadron building to Air Force Materiel Command headquarters, honors Special Agent Matthew Kuglics.Kuglics graduated from Green High School, south of Akron, in 2000 and enlisted in the Air

  • Spotlight: Staff Sgt. Tahmeira Kelley

    Name and rank: Staff Sgt. Tahmeira KelleyDuty title: Administrative technicianUnit of assignment: 88th Healthcare Operations SquadronWhat do you do at Wright-Patt? I am an administrative technician and recently became the NCOIC of the Internal Medicine Clinic at Wright-Patterson Medical Center,

  • This Fourth of July, be cautious around fireworks

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Fireworks are nothing less than recreational explosive devices. As such, they represent a potentially hazardous exposure to anyone in proximity and should be treated with the utmost caution at all times.To help you celebrate safely this July Fourth weekend,

  • Spotlight: MSgt Brian Frutiger

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- What’s your job like every day? There is rarely a day that mirrors the next. There may be times that my “day” has started late in the evening with a call from someone in need. First sergeants are quite often the first to be notified of an event with one of

  • You should dare to be great

     WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- I am always inspired when I come across the words Teddy Roosevelt spoke more than a hundred years ago:“It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit

  • Civilian employers are Hiring Our Heroes

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The key to success is often the ability to match one group’s needs with the talents of another. That is the goal of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program — to connect companies that have jobs to fill with transitioning service

  • Best-selling author discusses warrior spirit

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- During a visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on June 24, speaker and best-selling author D.J. Vanas encouraged military personnel and civilians to apply the warrior spirit as they further develop their careers or leadership skills.Vanas, an enrolled