• Before You Send That Email, What About Encryption and Digital Signatures?

    During the WPAFB Command Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI) (8~12 Sep 2014), DISA inspectors may ask you about encrypting and digitally signing email messages. We use these tools to preserve the confidentiality, authenticity, and integrity of information sent across the network, such as through

  • Air Force Retiree Council convenes to discuss issues

    The 2014 Air Force Retiree Council met in May to discuss issues important to retirees and surviving spouses, and receive briefings on various subjects important to the retiree community.This was the first time the council convened since 2012. Last year's annual meeting was canceled because of budget

  • Wright-Patterson moves to 7-digit dialing

    Dialing a telephone for an office-to-office call at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will require using the seven-digit commercial number starting Aug. 1, but base personnel may start doing so now.Robert Eastep, chief of requirements, Voice Systems Section, 88 Communications Squadron (88 CS), said

  • Information Protection Office Awareness Month

    Briefing will outline area gang and drug activitiesBase personnel, including parents of school-age children, may learn about the Dayton-area gang and drug threat June 26 from the Montgomery County Sheriff Department.The briefing is being held in honor of June being Information Protection Awareness

  • All Airmen must find the courage to innovate

    As we all know very well, the reduction in past and current budgets and the uncertainty about future budgets has placed the Air Force and all of its Airmen, military and civilian, under considerable pressure. This budget situation resulted in civilian furloughs in the last fiscal year, a government

  • Wright-Patt reservists return from deployment

    Members of 445 Airlift Wing, family and friends gathered at the Dayton International Airport May 3 to welcome home four Airmen from the 87 Aerial Port Squadron. The Airmen returned from an eight-month deployment at the Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan.While serving at the 376 Air Expeditionary

  • Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron provides care

    The 455 Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, provides movement of injured and sick patients around Afghanistan to a higher level of care. The unit uses fixed-wing aircraft such as the C-130J Super Hercules that allow a larger patient load, long-distance

  • Sergeant Major of the Army visits CSTARS

    The top senior enlisted member, Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army, Raymond Chandler III visited the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills in Cincinnati during a June 11 tour.As a USO guest for the birthday of the Army celebration, Sgt. Maj. Chandler attended numerous events with

  • AFIT Welcomes New Commander and Vice Chancellor

    Lt Gen David Fadok, Commander and President, Air University served as the presiding officer of a Change of Command Ceremony on 12 Jun 2014 at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). The ceremony honored AFIT's outgoing Commander and Vice Chancellor, Col Timothy Lawrence and welcomed his

  • Wing announces fun, family-oriented Sports Day

    The 88 Air Base Wing will host a day of fun, family-oriented and Olympic-style sports activities July 11 at Bass Lake from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Sports Day will include a burger burn and friendly competition among 88 ABW groups.All active-duty and civilian personnel from 88 ABW are welcome to