• Debt collectors who harass or threaten are breaking the law

    If you're behind on your bills, you'll probably get calls from debt collectors. Their job is to get you to pay or make arrangements to pay. But any debt collector who harasses or threatens you is breaking the law. The Federal Trade Commission's cases against Credit Smart and Regional Adjustment

  • Service Members Receiving RAND Military Workplace Survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate. "The

  • Moulage creates realistic scene

    This quarter's week of exercises at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base included simulated bus accident moulage on Aug. 7 in Kittyhawk Center, near the Airmen dorms.Moulage is the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training emergency response teams and other medical and military

  • Distracted driving can lead to major trouble

    Even a brief distraction for a driver can have catastrophic consequences.A vehicle traveling at 60 miles per hour covers 176 feet in two seconds, nearly the length of five school busses end to end. The U.S. Department of Transportation provides some valuable information on the subject: There are

  • Air Force, Creare develop technology

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Air Force and Creare, a small, New Hampshire-based business, developed a two-stage turbo-Brayton cryocooler that is expected to enhance operation of space-based infrared detectors. The resulting technology responds to Air Force requirements for

  • Variety of exhibitors to participate in free event

    The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Technology Exposition, set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Hope Hotel, is free for all military, civilian and contractor personnel to attend.More than 30 exhibitors will provide hands-on demonstrations of various technologies including: rugged tablets and

  • Adjusting the perception of ‘average’ Airmen

    As most Airmen already are aware, the Air Force's enlisted evaluation system and Weighted Airman Promotion System are undergoing the most fundamental changes since before the vast majority of us were serving our nation.The impetus for the changes, as Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James put it,

  • AFRL gaming lab provides real-world training

    Not all technology is developed by doctors in lab coats with years of education and research behind them - some of the most useful applications come from some very young and inexperienced, but very bright minds.These same young minds represent an invaluable future workforce in science, technology,

  • Exercise tests wing's readiness

    Base emergency response personnel, as well as much of the base populace, were put through their readiness paces Aug. 4-8 as the 88th Air Base Wing participated in its thirdquarter exercise for 2014.Designed to test the base's ability to handle a variety of contingencies, a quarterly exercise is long