• Air Force Marathon registration to open with special discount

    If you missed registering for the sold-out 2014 Air Force Marathon, mark January 1, 2015 on your calendar.Registration for the 2015 Air Force Marathon will open January 1 with special New Year's Resolution discounts. Participants who register that day will save $10 off the full or half marathon and

  • 'Whiskey' to perform personnel recovery mission

    The Air Force has officially designated the new Combat Rescue Helicopter as the HH-60W.The need to acquire a new personnel recovery capability resulted in the June 2014 contract award to Sikorsky for eventual production and fielding of up to 112 aircraft with a potential value of approximately $7.9

  • 15 Wright-Patt SMSgts selected for CMSgt

    Air Force Personnel Center release the chief master sergeant list and 15 senior master sergeants from across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base have been selected for promotion. For this cycle, there were 2,525 eligibles, and 479 were selected for an AF-wide selection rate of 48.97 percent. Only 1

  • Urgent need for transport isolation system involves AFLCMC

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) is playing a unique role in the United States' comprehensive Ebola response efforts in West Africa through the center's involvement in developing a transport isolation system. The system will enable safe aeromedical evacuation of Department of

  • Change to Roth Thrift Savings Plan effective in January

    When the Roth Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) was implemented in Defense Joint Military Pay System (DJMS), it only included capability to elect contribution in terms of dollars and not percentages. A DJMS programming change is expected to be implemented in January 2015 that will allow members to select

  • Even in midst of difficulties, everyone should pause and give thanks

    In tumultuous times, giving thanks can be hard. We live in a world that is full of challenges and chaos. It is so easy to get caught up in the negative and difficult things of life. By the time the Thanksgiving holiday has rolled around we may have had   almost 11 months of heartache and

  • Turkey fryers may pose risks

    This Thanksgiving, dinner tables across the country will have turkey front and center as the main course.Underwriters Laboratories Inc. warns, however, about reports of fires related with people using a turkey fryer to produce those great-tasting birds. canUsing deep-fryer can be dangerous› Many

  • AF funds thermal management research

    Managing heat that is generated by electronic subsystems in next-generation aircraft is a vexing challenge for aerospace system designers. In the interest of meeting this challenge, the Air Force recently provided follow-on funding for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) effort that is

  • Roads to close near construction projects

    Starting Nov. 24, a section of Estabrook Road will be closed to accommodate the demolition of Gate 9A near the Wright-Patterson Medical Center. The project is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 28.Refer to the map for information on the project location, road closure information and detour