• MQ-9 Reaper delivered ahead of schedule

    The first MQ-9 Reaper touched down at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., March 13. Its arrival, which occurred nearly one year earlier than projected, signals another effort by Aeronautical Systems Center to meet the warfighter's needs. ASC is the primary acquisition agent responsible for developing,

  • Wright-Patterson Airmen assist in Kyrgyzstan humanitarian aid mission

    Airmen from the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing assisted with the delivery of humanitarian supplies from Slovakia to the Kyrgyz Republic here Thursday. The supplies, which were donated over a year ago, were brought to the base via a C-17 Globemaster III from Ramstein, Germany. The supplies were mounted

  • Secretary of the Air Force Addresses March 2007 AFIT Graduates

    More than 240 scientists, engineers, and management specialists are the recipients of graduate and doctoral degrees from the Air Force Institute of Technology. AFIT's Graduate School of Engineering and Management held its March 2007 graduation ceremony Thursday evening at the National Museum of the

  • Air Force transforms filing personal claims

    Airmen and Air Force civilian employees will no longer have to wait up to two months to get paid on claims for loss or damage to their household goods, thanks to the new Air Force Claims Service Center here. The center, located in a business park about 15 miles from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,

  • Base to host Operation Purple summer camp

    Wright Patterson AFB was chosen again this year to host the popular Operation Purple Summer Camp. The National Military Family Association, or NMFA, developed this free summer camp program in response to the need for increased support for military children, especially those whose parents are or will

  • Base, Bombers team up for charity

    The Dayton Bombers hockey team hosted appreciation night for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base March 10 at the Ervin J. Nutter Center. The evening event, which raised money for a great cause, started with a ceremonial dropping of the puck by Col. Colleen M. Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander and was

  • AFIT offers distance learning degree program

    The Air Force Institute of Technology recently achieved two milestones that will help the school move forward into the 21st century and serve the Air Force with greater responsiveness. This month, AFIT began offering its first distance learning graduate degree program. AFIT has been using DL

  • Wright-Patterson majors, captains selected for promotion

    Forty-one Wright-Patterson majors were selected for promotion Tuesday during the 2007 lieutenant colonel selection process held at the Air Force Personnel Center, Randolph AFB, Texas. The following majors here were selected for promotion: 303rd Aeronautical Systems Group David Kacmarynski 645th

  • Base Airman saving lives in Iraq

    Servicemembers being wheeled headfirst into the Air Force Theater Hospital emergency room shouldn't be surprised if the first person they see is a pharmacist. Amid every trauma team assembling in a flurry of stethoscopes, charts and needles is a clinical pharmacist and a pharmacy technician carrying

  • Columbus, Ohio selected to host Air Force Heritage Week

    Reaffirming its commitment to the commemoration of 60 years of air and space power, the United States Air Force announced Feb. 23 that Columbus, Ohio, has been selected as host for the nation's only Air Force Heritage Week in conjunction with The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends in September 2007.