• Airman perseveres through injuries determined to run Air Force Marathon

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Fully dedicated to training for the Air Force Marathon, Staff Sgt. Kyle Hipol hit a road block along the way after suffering an injury, but there was no stopping his determination that he would go over, under and around that road block in order to cross that

  • AFRL team invents cargo aircraft tire change tool

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – How many airmen does it take to change a cargo aircraft tire? Too many, according to J.D. Bales, Air Force Research Laboratory and Junior Force Warfighter Operations team member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate.The 60th Aircraft Maintenance

  • Wright-Patt takes strides to remember cost of 9/11

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Community members and active duty personnel of all branches, ages, and ranks ran to commemorate the attacks that level all Americans to the same heartbreak and pride for the heroes who sacrificed most for it.Nine-hundred runners and walkers gathered in Area B

  • Was it chance or providence?

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio—Back in the mid-1990s, Gary Dale with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate, got a visit from a Japanese researcher, Dr. Keisuke Asai. They were both doing research in the same field, and this was their first meeting.“After discussing

  • The person, the Airman, the wounded warrior

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Master Sgt. Sharina Elrod, with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Inspector General’s office, and a Wounded Warrior Ambassador, said she couldn’t wait to join the Air Force, serving her country and seeing the world. In 1998, the self-described “go-getter”

  • Deaf intern expands growth, service to country in AFMC security spectrum

    Former Premier College intern Tina Banerjee continues to look beyond the challenges of being born deaf as she returns to Air Force Materiel Command as a Palace Acquire intern in the 88th Air Base Wing Information Protection organization.“For the longest time, I knew I wanted to serve my country

  • WWII veteran to parachute into history with help of AFRL researcher

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dayton-area World War II veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin will return to the site of an historic battlefield this month when he parachutes into the Netherlands, through the help of Air Force Research Laboratory computer scientist Kevin Price.Martin, 98, of Xenia,

  • AFSAC to host annual WWRS workshop

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Looking to buy spare parts for the weapon systems in your inventory? If so, and you are one of the 116 foreign military partners the Air Force supports, or a U.S government agency, the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate (AFSAC) has you