• Vaccines offer insurance against flu

    With flu season is rapidly approaching, Wright-Patterson Medical Center's immunization clinic is making influenza vaccine available for active duty Airmen and certain military beneficiary family members. Influenza virus, better known as the "flu," is a highly contagious respiratory viral illness.

  • Tough questions answered at Retiree Appreciation Day

    Attendees at this year's Retiree Appreciation Day will be treated to a detailed discussion of military retiree benefits successes and shortcomings led by the President of the National Association for the Uniformed Services. The event takes place Oct. 29 at the Hope Hotel near Gate 12A here. Retired

  • Joint military-civilian ceremony honors deployed troops

    More than sixty Air Force Research Laboratory military and civilian personnel paid tribute to their deployed colleagues Sept. 30 during a flag retreat ceremony at the Prairies at Wright Field military housing community on Colonel Glenn Highway. A combined military-civilian detail from AFRL's 711th

  • Wounded Eagle exercise may affect entire base

    Wing exercise planners here will kick off Wounded Eagle 08-03, a base-wide emergency response exercise, Oct. 8 - 9. The latest exercise was rescheduled from the originally planned dates of Sept. 15-17 after a major wind storm knocked down trees, took out electrical power and damaged a number of base

  • Photonic modulation: an advance in quantum information processing

    Researchers at Stanford University have potentially advanced quantum cryptography, information processing, and memory storage by being the first scientists to modulate the time profile of a single photon. Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded Dr. Steve Harris and his co-researchers at

  • AFOSR boosts ties with HBCU community

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is working to strengthen ties with America's historically black colleges and universities.Mr. Ed Lee, AFOSR Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) program manager, attended the 2008 National Historically Black Colleges

  • Col. Avery gives, receives presentation at AFSAC

    When he arrived at the Air Force Security Assistance Center to deliver a presentation September 23, Col. Larry Avery had no idea he would be on the receiving end too. Now the deputy director of the Security Assistance Office for the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq, Colonel Avery

  • National Disability Employment Awareness Month launches at WPAFB

    To kick off National Disability Employment Awareness Month, the Chairperson of the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Sept. 19 - 20  to donate a commemorative brick at the Wright "Flyer" Memorial and to participate in the

  • Air Force Striving to Enhance Communications Networks

    Through a joint effort 2 years in the making, the Air Force, Army, and Navy are funding a Finnish research program established to explore new approaches for improving telecommunications network management. The ultimate goal is to build on this basic research in creating a cognitive network that will

  • Air Force comes to aid of wind storm victims

    Despite valiant efforts by regional energy providers, an estimated 38,000 customers in the Dayton region remained without electrical power today, nine days after a powerful wind storm blew through Ohio's Miami Valley. Air Force officials here decided to get creative in an effort to assist base