• B-52 CONECTs to the digital age

    The venerable B-52 Stratofortress, our nation's preeminent strategic bomber, is getting the first major upgrade to its communications system in many years, making it an even more lethal weapon system in the Air Force's arsenal.OC-ALC's 565th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is installing Combat Network

  • Next LCMC Focus Week begins July 25

    The next Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Focus Week is scheduled for July 25 to 29. As with previous focus weeks, offerings include both functional and general training.Courses are available locally and via distance learning through Defense Collaboration Services, or DCS. Focus Week

  • July is Make a Difference to Children Month

    While many people make a positive difference in the lives of children on a daily basis without much thought at all, July, as Make a Difference to Children Month, provides everyone an opportunity to purposely prepare and complete activities to inspire children.There are several organizations on base

  • Pegasus refuels Globemaster

    The KC-46A Pegasus connected in flight with an F-16 Fighting Falcon on July 8 and a C-17 Globemaster III on July 12.These tests with the F-16 and C-17 were in support of the Milestone C requirements to rendezvous, contact, and transfer fuel to several receiver aircraft types.An initial attempt with

  • Detachment standardizes aeromedical qualification training for Total Force

    Airmen across the Air Force assigned to 31 aeromedical evacuation squadrons must complete vigorous training to provide life-saving in-transit care on fixed wing aircrafts.The 375th Air Mobility Wing’s newest Formal Training Unit, Detachment 4, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the

  • Airman links deployed operators to human performance experts

    Many scientists and engineers go directly from school to laboratories and do not get the opportunity to work side-by-side with customers who use the products they create.But for a behavioral scientist in the 711th Human Performance Wing here, that is not the case.Lt. Anthony Eastin, a behavioral

  • Battlefield Airmen use science to beat the heat

    Heat-related illness is a critical factor when personnel are operating in extreme temperatures. Dr. Reginald O'Hara and his exercise physiology research team at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are working to reduce that heat stress.

  • Air Force office takes packaging to the next level

    Transporting Air Force and Department of Defense assets like aircraft, munitions, parts, satellites, etc., isn't as simple as throwing them in a box and putting them in the mail. A considerable amount of time and effort is put into making sure the assets are packaged in a manner that keeps them safe

  • Focus Week registration open for courses being offered July 25-29

    Registration is now open for the third Focus Week of 2016, scheduled for July 25-29 at the 88th Air Base Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Registration will continue until the day before each course is held.Several classes are aimed at addressing supervisors' needs, said Marcia Sanders, 88 ABW

  • Car shows benefit Fisher Houses

    Donations from a series of three "Voss Hoss" car shows being held this summer are benefiting the Fisher Houses at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.Voss Chevrolet, part of the Voss Auto Network, held its inaugural car show June 3, with the remaining shows scheduled for July 15 and Aug. 19 at its Loop