• AFSA Kittyhawk Chapter 751 recognizes Gold Award recipients

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Air Force Sergeants Association Kittyhawk Chapter 751 congratulated Girl Scouts at the annual Gold Award Recognition Ceremony on March 5.  The event was held at the Sinclair Ponitz Center in Dayton and was hosted by Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. Tech. Sgt.

  • Poison Prevention Week aimed at avoiding exposure

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- National Poison Prevention Week, the third full week in March each year, is designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them.Every 15 seconds, someone calls a Poison Control Center in the United States, according to recent data. In

  • Spotlight: Senior Airman Aaliyah Jhane Decena

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --Name and rank: Senior Airman Aaliyah Jhane DecenaDuty title: Medical readiness training managerUnit of assignment: 88th Medical Support SquadronWhat do you do at Wright-Patt?I am a health services manager at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center. My primary role

  • AFIT to award more than 200 degrees March 23

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management will present 203 master’s and five doctorate degrees at a commencement ceremony March 23.The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air

  • We will be known forever by the tracks we leave

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- I recently wrote a leadership essay for my Air Command Staff College master’s class on a 19th-century Oglala War Chief, Tashunke Witko, an individual who didn’t attend a military academy or receive any formal training. One might be intrigued as to why. Just

  • Engineering students deliver real-world plan for RAF Feltwell

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – What started as a consultation request turned into faculty from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Civil Engineer School delivering the first off-site offering of their Comprehensive Planning Course. Traditionally, the course is taught at Wright-Patterson

  • WPAFB to conduct emergency management response training March 15

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The installation will conduct an emergency management response training exercise at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday, March 15.Those people traveling near the museum on Wednesday may experience emergency vehicles, alert sirens,

  • Defense Acquisition University offers hybrid options for flexibility

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Do you want to attend your next Defense Acquisition University course in the actual classroom--but only some of the time? Or all the time? Or even none of the time? You now have more options to pick how you want to learn—in-person, virtually or both through