• Wright-Patterson Med Center takes its Health News Road Show back to AFIT

    A Wright-Patterson Medical Center team presented its Health News Road Show briefing to a new group of 2nd Lts. at the Air Force Institute of Technology recently. The briefing aimed at introducing the benefits and programs afforded through the health care programs here and is designed to establish a

  • Air Force medics evacuating critically ill from Haiti

    A three-person medical team from the Wright-Patterson Medical Center here have deployed to provide aeromedical evacuation support to assist victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.The critical care air transport, or CCAT, team is staging from MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., with the 45th

  • NASIC aids in Haitian relief efforts

    More than 1,500 miles from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, members from the National Air and Space Intelligence Center Open Skies Media Processing Facility, based here, helped recovery efforts following the recent earthquake. Relief operations officials in Haiti are using film developed at NASIC to make

  • Air Force Institute of Technology attends annual AETC Symposium

    Air Force Institute of Technology personnel exhibited and presented papers at the Air Education and Training Command Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, on 14-15 Jan 2010. By all measures, AFIT considered the event a success. Brig Gen Walter D. Givhan, AFIT Commandant, stated "This is not just a

  • ASC honored with VPP Star Award

    The Aeronautical Systems Center Command Section was presented with the coveted Occupational Safety & Health Administration recognition as a Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star Worksite for the outstanding and exemplary occupational safety and health status performance of its leadership and

  • Base security force members deploy for Southwest Asia

    On a cloudy damp, Sunday morning, approximately 25 members from the 88th Security Forces Squadron deployed from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base headed for Southwest Asia. Security forces members will perform force protection duties to include protecting personnel, vital resources, and air base

  • UPDATED: Ohio Task Force One ready to depart for Haiti from WPAFB

    UPDATE:  As of 6 p.m. on Jan. 17 Ohio Task Force One received orders from FEMA to demmobilize their personnel.  The team was informed by FEMA Headquarters that OHTF-1 remain "next" to rotate into Haiti should any additional or replacement resources be ordered by the U.S. State Department, according

  • Monitoring water flow is an important part of Environmental Management

    Wright-Patterson's Environmental Management Division insures water discharging from the base into local waterways remains within national discharge pollutant standards. "It's important that the water is discharged into the proper drainage system on base," said Zach Olds, water quality program

  • Ohio State Income Taxes: what active duty members and spouses need to know

    Have tax questions?  We have the answers.Every year Aeronautical Systems Center Legal Assistance and the Ohio Department of Taxation receive questions on what active duty members and their spouses need to provide to Ohio during tax time. Every state collects taxes differently, so military members in