• 445th reservist trains to save fellow firefighters

    DOBBINS AIR RESERVE BASE, Georgia - Reserve firefighters from across the country trained at the first-ever Air Force Reserve Command Firefighter Rescue and Survival course, April 17-21, at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia.

  • Hanscom acquisition experts have new GEOINT advocate

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – One team at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center here works to enable more than 90 acquisition programs know the earth, show the way and understand the world. Hanscom is the top acquisition customer of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in the

  • Wright-Patterson Medical Center unveils new surgical robot

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Certain surgeries at Wright-Patterson Medical Center, may now be performed by a surgeon wielding surgical tools via robotic arms, thanks to a $2.4 million device officially unveiled April 20.The da Vinci Xi surgical robotic system “will allow us to take care

  • Retired radar crew chief recalls time aboard ‘Triple Nickel’

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Editor’s note: In light of the Air Force’s upcoming 70th anniversary, the Skywrighter is publishing stories from select service members. When Robert Sargent, a retired master sergeant and radar crew chief once stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

  • Royal Australian Air Force celebrates 102nd ANZAC Day

    Each year on April 25,Australians and New Zealanders commemorate ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day to recognize the sacrifices Australian and New Zealand soldiers, sailors and Airmen have made – not only in defending their country but in upholding their nations’ longstanding

  • Wright-Patt colonel one of USAF 2017 bowling camp candidates

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force recently selected the candidates for the service’s 2017 Bowling Trial Camp May 2-4 at Camp Pendleton, California, and one of them – Lt. Col. Brian Snyder, 88th Communications Squadron commander – hails from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.Based

  • Thompson reflects on his command of AFLCMC

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- As the final day of his command of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, approaches, Lt. Gen. John Thompson said it’s the people of the center he will miss the most.Thompson’s new duty will be to serve

  • AFRL ENSPIRE program strikes resounding chord with students

    An Air Force Research Laboratory Rocket Propulsion Division program to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics projects with local high schools struck a resounding chord with one school, inspiring an effort to explore the science of producing synthesized electronic music.  

  • 'Hidden child' tells his story of surviving Holocaust

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The year is 1942 and the Nazis are in the second year of their brutal occupation of Belgium – as they seek control of Europe and the world.Sam Lauber, a retiree from the 88th Air Base Wing Medical Group here, was born to a Jewish family in Antwerp Belgium,