• Wright State vs. Air Force Academy

    The Wright State University, Raiders will take on the United States Air Force Academy Falcons men's basketball team on Wednesday, Dec. 8 at the WSU Nutter Center."This should be a great game between the Falcons and the Raiders" said Col. Amanda Gladney, 88th Air Base Wing commander, "It's a real

  • Modeling and simulation conference shaping future warfighting

    The new commander of Air Education & Training Command on Tuesday, Nov. 30 challenged developers of modeling and simulation technologies to work together to develop new and improved training systems to meet the full spectrum of threats joint and coalition warfighters may face in the future. "History

  • Airman Porfirio passes away

    Senior Airman Tre Porfirio, the 88th Communication Squadron voice network systems technician wounded in action one year ago in Afghanistan, died Sunday morning.Airman Porfirio passed away while visiting friends over the Thanksgiving holiday in Sikeston, Missouri. He was 22 years old. "We are all

  • Tickets available Nov. 22 for free Band of Flight holiday concerts

    Tickets will be available Nov. 22 for the United States Air Force Band of Flight free annual holiday concerts at the Dayton Masonic Center.Concerts are scheduled for Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.The theme of this year's concerts is "December

  • Air Force announces newest chief master sergeant selects

    Eight senior master sergeants assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are among the 504 selected Air Force wide for promotion to chief master sergeant, personnel officials announced Thursday morning, Nov. 18.Air Force officials considered 2,287 eligible senior master sergeants for promotion to

  • AFRL to hold ribbon cutting for Condor supercomputer

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate at Rome N.Y. will conduct a ribbon cutting Dec. 1 on a most unlikely supercomputer: a cluster of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 processors and 168 general-purpose Graphical Processing Units.Nicknamed the Condor Cluster, the PlayStation 3 processors

  • Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie

    Base Environmental along with Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry will conduct a controlled burn of Huffman Prairie on Tuesday, Nov. 16, weather permitting. The original date for the burn as Nov 9, but was canceled due to unfavorable winds.The controlled burn is used to

  • AFRC takes home its first Marathon MAJCOM Challenge

    The Air Force Reserve Command was announced as the winner of the 2010 Air Force Marathon MAJCOM Challenge winner recently at CORONA Fall topping the service's list of major commands. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the coveted trophy to Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, AFRC