• Get great information, free stuff at Retiree Appreciation Day

    Retired Col. Paul Moore says people will attend Wright-Patterson's Retiree Appreciation Day here on Oct. 25 for a lot of different reasons. "If the opportunity to learn more about the status of benefits from a prominent speaker doesn't grab you, perhaps free gift certificates from the Army-Air Force

  • Putting a Reaper in the skies over Afghanistan, a chain of successes

    Since late September, the new MQ-9 Reaper has flown daily missions over Afghanistan. The 658th Aeronautical Systems Squadron, in the 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing, comprises the team of program managers, functional supporters, testers and logisticians who were behind the team effort of getting the

  • October’s Young Heroes receive Medals Of Honor

    At noon, Oct. 4, at Wright-Patterson's Chapel 3 in the Prairies at Wright Field, siblings Ada Lillian Kingston and Timothy Desmond Kingston received Young Heroes Medals of Honor. The two were accompanied at the ceremony by their parents, Paula and Niall Kingston, and their brothers, Simon and Leo.

  • AFRL researchers fine-tune F-35 pilot-aircraft speech system

    When the first production F-35 Lightning II rolls out in 2008, communications between pilot and aircraft will enter a new era thanks in part to testing and analysis conducted at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate. The F-35 will be the first U. S. fighter aircraft

  • Miami Valley CFC in full swing on base

    The 2007 Miami Valley Combined Federal Campaign is in full swing and unit representatives are working on getting 100 percent contact in their offices.This year's campaign kicked off with an agency fair at the Ervin J. Nutter Center at Wright State University Oct. 3. Representatives from 112 local,

  • Chaplains reach out to community for Clergy Day

    Base Chaplains are hoping to familiarize local spiritual leaders of every faith background with the base, its missions and the difficulties faced by military families at Clergy Day Oct. 22. "Most base people don't live on base and after working here all week they don't come back through the gate to

  • Luncheon with aviation legends Oct. 26

    Enlisted members here will have a rare opportunity to celebrate their aviation heritage Oct. 26, during a luncheon with some living legends. The "Muster Luncheon" at the Wright-Patterson Club invites current enlisted Airmen to meet with the celebrated "Flying Sergeants" during a reunion by the Army

  • Base to bring speaker for major workshop on violence against women

    In an effort to raise awareness and educate communities about domestic violence, four Wright-Patterson helping agencies have joined forces to co-sponsor the workshop "A Call to Men," featuring guest speaker Tony Porter. The base sexual assault response, family advocacy, Federal Women's Programs and

  • 88th Operations Support Squadron stands ready for inspection

    The 88th Air Base Wing Operations Support Squadron is gearing up to host the Air Force Materiel Command Air Traffic System Evaluation and Air Force Weather Standardization and Evaluation Program starting October 15 through October 19. ATSEP and AWSEP will evaluate the ability of Airfield Operations