• Wellness events planned for mid-month

    Civilian Health Promotion Services has a number of health-testing opportunities and classes planned for Nov. 10-14. For details, call CHPS at 904-9359.Nov. 107-10 a.m. -- Free cholesterol screening and inbody composition testing, Bldg. 571, Area B, Room 1587:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. -- Bod pods, Bldg. 571,

  • AF website/app highlights base programs, activities

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is one of many bases within the Air Force featured on the My Air Force Life website or app.This app highlights events happening within Wright-Patterson's 88th Force Support Squadron.On My Air Force Life one can find information on almost all of the programs and

  • Shape-changing flap takes to air

    A feature of aircraft design unchanged for nearly a century may have been twisted into a new shape as a result of a revolutionary new structure being tested in the Mojave Desert. A specially modified Gulfstream III jet successfully took to the skies over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Nov.

  • Air Force Research Laboratory honors top scientists, engineers

    Air Force Research Laboratory honored 12 outstanding scientists and engineers at the 2014 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards Banquet Oct. 30 for their exceptional contributions to advancing technologies for the warfighter. Eight were awarded AFRL Fellow status, the laboratory's highest award for

  • Hanscom key to Air Force cyber weapons

    With cyberspace unfolding as the newest frontier for battle, the U.S. needs weapon systems geared for that fight, and Hanscom AFB is leading the way.In 2013 the Air Force Chief of Staff designated six of the service's cyber capabilities as weapon systems. While not your typical air or ground

  • Retiree Appreciation Day draws crowd

    Approximately 350 military retirees and other interested attendees gathered Oct. 24 at the Hope Hotel's Richard C. Holbrooke Conference Center for Retiree Appreciation Day. The annual event was designed to better inform retirees of their retirement benefits and current legislative issues."I feel

  • Installation prepares for week-long exercise

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's workforce will take part in a quarterly exercise designed to test and evaluate their responses to a variety of emergency situations Nov. 3-7.While installation operations will continue as scheduled with minimal disruptions, personnel can expect to see and hear

  • Change the climate, change the culture: You make the difference

    Climate change has shaped mankind, influencing the location and productivity of man; changing the human culture. Like the weather climate, every Airman, civilian and contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has the power to positively affect the organizational climate.  Through treating each

  • Pitching in to help with landscape maintenance

    As an example of being good stewards of the Air Force budget, a team of co-workers from the 88th Air Base Wing Headquarters (Bldg. 10, Area A) participated in landscape maintenance work Oct. 24. 

  • Wright-Patt graduate students benefit from new scholarship

    More than seven dozen members of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base community are furthering their post-undergraduate education, thanks to scholarships available through a new program at Wright State University.In its first semester of operation for fall 2014, the $750,000 Wright State University