• Cadets spend 2 weeks at WPAFB to prepare for operational duty

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Cadets from the Air Force Academy recently spent two weeks learning what life in the operational Air Force is really like.  While visiting Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from June 6 – 21 as part of the Ops AF Program, their schedule included tours of the Air

  • Airman looks to sister for re-enlistment ceremony

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- An ophthalmic technician in the 88th Medical Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, didn’t choose to be sworn in by her unit commander when she was ready to re-enlist. Instead, she turned to a family member – her younger sister.The re-enlistment ceremony for

  • Wright-Patt goes to the bees

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Hundreds of base personnel and members of the public were buzzing about the same thing at the Wright Brothers Memorial June 21 – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s status as the first military installation nationwide to be declared a “Bee City USA.”A first-ever

  • Annual acquisition conference a success

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Hundreds of acquisition and industry professionals gathered at the Air Force Institute of Technology here June 13-14, for two action-packed days of demonstrations and presentations from some of the greatest and brightest minds in acquisition, technology,

  • Wright-Patterson provides mutual aid to Southwest Ohio

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- The occasional blare of a fire engine, flash of lights and heavy sound of tires on pavement rolling past a window likely doesn’t warrant the raise of an eyebrow for those living and working on base here, but the impact of Wright-Patterson’s first responders reaches far

  • AFITC 2017 slated for August, registration open

    Registration is now open for the 2017 Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference, Aug. 28-30, 2017, at Montgomery’s Renaissance Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center. Living up to its theme of “The Future is Now … A Digital Age Air Force,” the conference will highlight the

  • AFICA hosts 2017 Enterprise Sourcing Summit at AFIT

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Over 100 professionals from organizations around the world gathered for the Air Force Installation Contracting Agency’s 2017 Enterprise Sourcing Summit June 7-8 at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Bane Auditorium. Attendees included representatives from

  • Shipton becomes AFPEO for Tankers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Donna Shipton accepted leadership of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Tanker Directorate as the Air Force Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Tankers in a June 12 ceremony.  She replaces Maj. Gen. Duke Richardson, who served as PEO for