• Gate 15A closure to affect commuters April 19 to June 17

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Entry controllers at Gate 15A on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are set to get more weather protection and base security will be enhanced when new facilities are constructed April 19 to June 17.Gate 15A will be closed to all inbound and outbound traffic

  • Strengthening, caring for team runway to success

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The 88th Air Base Wing recently updated its mission, vision, motto, values, characteristics and traits, and lines of effort.A line of effort links multiple tasks and missions to focus energy toward establishing operational and strategic conditions. These are

  • 88 MDG team makes progress in Detroit

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The 120 Airmen from the 88th Medical Group who departed for a COVID-19 mission in Detroit have been diligent by putting shots in arms.The team has been providing 5,000 vaccines a day, and another thousand have been delivered by mobile vaccination teams, which

  • Wright-Patt’s special operations director retires

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE- Ohio-- Dave Egner says he doesn’t enjoy games, but his strategic skills in helping operate Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s airfield and more make him look like a chess grandmaster.Egner retires April 2 after more than four decades of Air Force service as

  • Force-protection exercise slated for April 7

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio -- Personnel at Wright-Patterson AFB will go through their antiterrorism paces April 7, as the base is tested on its response to force-protection condition changes in an installation-wide training exercise.FPCON is a system military installations use to dictate

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Wright-Patt to provide transient support for U.S. Army

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – From 29-31 March, the 88th Operations Support Squadron and 88 Logistics Readiness Squadron at Wright-Patterson AFB are providing transient support for the United States Army as helicopters from the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Fort

  • Tornado exercise slated for March 31

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will conduct a scheduled tornado-exercise scenario March 31.The Installation Command Center will activate warning sirens, issue notifications over the “Giant Voice” announcement system and use other communication modes across

  • Right values lead to the Wright way

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO -- The 88th Air Base Wing has developed a new strategic plan that defines the installation and how leaders want community partners to view it.Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is guided by certain standards and ideals that all personnel, military and civilians