• My educational journey: From foster care to the forefront

    Growing up in foster homes left me with few educational opportunities and options. Struggling to find work, I enlisted in the Air Force in Feb. 1996 and began my career at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.I was eager to learn and get in school, but I found that many noncommissioned officers said,

  • AFRL commander nominated for third star, new command

    Pentagon officials announced Thursday, Jan. 20 that Maj. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory here, has been nominated to the Senate for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general and assignment as commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air

  • WPAFB to conduct quarterly exercise

    Officials with the 88th Air Base Wing will conduct a quarterly exercise here Jan. 31 - Feb 4.Many base operations and services will continue as scheduled with minimal disruptions, however personnel should expect tightened security and plan ahead for possible delays at gates and throughout the

  • Initiative strives to boost number of CCAF graduates

    In an attempt to increase the number of Community College of the Air Force graduates on Air Force Materiel Command bases, command officials rolled out a plan entitled "Year of the Community College of the Air Force" Jan. 1, 2011.Gen. Donald Hoffman, AFMC commander, addressed the importance of the

  • Wright-Patt readies to automate base entry control

    Drivers pulling up at base gates will have something new to greet them in the not-too-distant future. It's a new security technology called the Defense Biometric Identification System, or DBIDS. The most visible part of DBIDS is a handheld scanner. Gate guards will use the scanners to read bar codes

  • DoD makes case to improve business models

    "DoD doesn't have enough money unless we change how we do business," Frank Kendall, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, stated emphatically. Mr. Kendall addressed a packed auditorium in the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenny Hall here Jan. 4

  • AFMC commander emphasizes education, CCAF

    AFMC Airmen,On January 1, 2011, AFMC will begin our "Year of the Community College of the Air Force" (YoCCAF) campaign. John Buchan, a 20th century writer and politician, once said, "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."

  • Navy family rings in 2011 with first New Year's baby at Wright-Patt

    For the second consecutive year, the Dayton area's first birth of the New Year took place at Wright-Patterson Medical Center here. Joseph David Elliott, a baby boy, was delivered at 3:05 a.m. Jan. 1 to proud parents Andrew and Heather Elliott.  "Joey" weighed in at 6 pounds, 3 ounces.Both new