• Holocaust survivor speaks to AFLCMC staff during Wingman Day event

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – More than 73 years ago during World War II, Samuel Heider was liberated from the horrors of the Holocaust, after spending years in a ghetto, concentration camps, losing his entire family and being on the verge of death every day. Recently, he was the featured

  • Huffman Prairie Prescribed Burn season dates announced

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Officials from the 88th Civil Engineer Group Natural Resources Program have announced Prescribed Burn season dates for the annual Huffman Prairie burn.The burn season begins Nov. 1, 2018 and ends March 15, 2019.Prescribed Burns on the Huffman Prairie are used

  • Gourds to fly above Wright-Patt at 14th Annual Pumpkin Chuck Nov. 2

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Teams and individuals are scheduled to launch a hundred pumpkins, thousands of feet at the 14th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck slated for the grounds behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force Nov. 2 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Entry to the

  • CFC loaned executives embrace their volunteerism, commitment

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Each year two people volunteer to serve as loaned executives for the 2018 Ohio Combined Federal Campaign, Dayton District, to execute the campaign at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and other federal entities in a nine-county area.This year’s loaned

  • Striking granite monument now graces museum’s Memorial Park

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Fallen servicemembers who have made the ultimate sacrifice and their Gold Star family members now have a new memorial dedicated to them at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.A ceremony involving military leaders, local

  • Wright-Patt Exchange reopens with $6.4M upgrade Oct. 25

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Exchange customers are invited to the facility’s grand reopening ceremony Thursday, Oct. 25 beginning at 8:30 a.m. with special guests the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders and Bengal’s mascot Who Dey taking photos and signing

  • Obenland Memorial Award commemorates engineer, hero

    An engineering officer at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the recipient of the 2018 Roland R.Obenland Memorial Award. The award honors a company grade engineering officer with less than seven years of total active commissioned service who exhibits

  • Inventive tools track technical tweaks

    Acquisition professionals at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, are ditching Excel, manually-tracked comment resolution matrices, emails and clunky SharePoint workflow systems for cheap, cloud-hosted software solutions field-tested and implemented by the U.S. Navy’s Undersea Warfare Center.