• Full replacement value for personal property begins soon

    Department of Defense customers, including servicemembers and DOD civilians, will soon be eligible for full replacement value protection on most DOD-funded personal property shipments.  Full replacement value coverage will apply to personal property shipments with a pickup date on or after:  -- Oct.

  • Wright-Patt staff sergeant selected for nurse commissioning program

    A staff sergeant with the 88th Surgical Operations Squadron has been selected to attend the nurse enlisted commissioning program in spring 2008, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Heather E. Shonk was one of 27 enlisted Airmen that an Air Force board selected to

  • Air Force marathon offers four-person relay race

    Runners who are interested in participating in the 2007 U.S. Air Force Marathon here, but aren't interested in running the full 26.2-mile course, have another option: the four-person relay.  Relay team members each run a specific leg of the marathon with the team's total elapsed time determining the

  • Recycle center adds to arsenal of ‘green’ disposal systems

    The base recycling center has added a new weapon to its arsenal of environmentally friendly disposal systems. A Shred-Tech 25 shredder that can handle one ton of paper each hour was purchased in February for $50,000, said Bill Meinerding, an environmental engineer in the 88th Air Base Wing Civil

  • SARC helps promote awareness, provide support

    Simone Koram, the base coordinator for sexual assault response and wingman activities, is partnering with base organizations in an effort to more fully explain her organizational missions and goals. To that end, she conducted a meeting July 26 with representatives from the Base Enlisted Advisory

  • Cryogenic Community Honors Air Force-Funded Researcher

    A materials science researcher, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, received the Cryogenic Materials Award for Lifetime Achievements during the International Cryogenic Materials Conference. The July event was held in Chattanooga, Tenn. Professor David Larbalestier, director of

  • Air Force Funds Research on Self-Healing Materials

    A research team at the University of Illinois, funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, is creating new, cutting-edge structural microvascular materials which will have repetitive, self-healing capabilities as well as self-cooling behavior. Professor Scott White and his colleagues are

  • Two AFOSR-Funded Scientists Awarded National Medals of Science

    Two Medal of Science Awardees to be honored at the White House July 27th by President George W. Bush have been funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The National Medal of Science was established by the 86th Congress in 1959 as a Presidential Award to people who are "deserving of

  • Researcher Investigates Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded research, led by Dr. David Goldhaber-Gordon of Stanford University is creating transistors based on carbon nanotubes, ultrathin tubes of carbon a few atoms in width. According to Dr. Harold Weinstock, "Dr. Goldhaber-Gordon was chosen to give the