• Base to host Operation Purple summer camp

    Wright Patterson AFB was chosen again this year to host the popular Operation Purple Summer Camp. The National Military Family Association, or NMFA, developed this free summer camp program in response to the need for increased support for military children, especially those whose parents are or will

  • Base, Bombers team up for charity

    The Dayton Bombers hockey team hosted appreciation night for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base March 10 at the Ervin J. Nutter Center. The evening event, which raised money for a great cause, started with a ceremonial dropping of the puck by Col. Colleen M. Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander and was

  • Wright-Patterson majors, captains selected for promotion

    Forty-one Wright-Patterson majors were selected for promotion Tuesday during the 2007 lieutenant colonel selection process held at the Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph AFB, Texas. The following majors here were selected for promotion: 303rd Aeronautical Systems Group David Kacmarynski 645th

  • Base Airman saving lives in Iraq

    Servicemembers being wheeled headfirst into the Air Force Theater Hospital emergency room shouldn't be surprised if the first person they see is a pharmacist. Amid every trauma team assembling in a flurry of stethoscopes, charts and needles is a clinical pharmacist and a pharmacy technician carrying

  • AFRL Donates Advanced Surfaces Analysis System To Howard University

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has donated an advanced materials analysis system capable of analyzing the surface and in-depth composition of materials with precision accuracy to Howard University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility. The system

  • Air Force celebrates 60 years withTattoo

    The Air Force turns 60 this year and Dave Egner, director of Freedom's Call Air Force Materiel Command Tattoo, said he wants it to be a big bang. The June 29 show will open with both flyovers and fireworks. Mr. Egner said the theme for this year's Tattoo is "Heritage to Horizons." Both past and

  • Base hosts annual National Prayer Luncheon

    More than 450 patrons counted their blessings and came together in prayer Wednesday at the National Prayer Luncheon held at the club, an annual event at Wright-Patterson AFB. The 88th Air Base Wing Chaplain Capt. Dwayne A. Jones opened the ceremonies and then provided the crowd with words of hope

  • Shooters strive for excellence

     Airmen from as far away as Keesler AFB, Miss., descended upon Wright-Patterson AFB's Combat Arms Facility Monday to compete for Excellence-in-Competition medals. The Air Force-wide event was an elementary level one, which meant that participants would fire M-16A2 rifles at targets 25 meters from

  • DoD’S newest supercomputer enables powerful innovation for users

    Staying on the cutting edge of technology isn't just a slogan at the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center here. With the addition of an SGI® Altix® 4700 computer, the ASC MSRC will house one of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's largest

  • DoD’S newest supercomputer enables powerful innovation for users

    Staying on the cutting edge of technology isn't just a slogan at the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center here. With the addition of an SGI® Altix® 4700 computer, the ASC MSRC will house one of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's largest