• 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.

  • BRAC reshaping local communities

    At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and across the nation, the military's transformation because of base realignment and closure changes are reshaping communities. The economic impact of BRAC decisions can be profound, which is why military leaders, government officials and business leaders are

  • New survey aims to improve information delivery to Airmen

    The Secretary of the Air Force Office of Communication at the Pentagon has launched a study to find out how Airmen want to get information about the Air Force. A randomly selected group of Airmen and Air Force civilian employees will receive an e-mail invitation from Brig Gen Erv Lessel, Air Force

  • AFRL Donates Advanced Surfaces Analysis System To Howard University

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has donated an advanced materials analysis system capable of analyzing the surface and in-depth composition of materials with precision accuracy to Howard University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility. The system

  • Air Force celebrates 60 years withTattoo

    The Air Force turns 60 this year and Dave Egner, director of Freedom's Call Air Force Materiel Command Tattoo, said he wants it to be a big bang. The June 29 show will open with both flyovers and fireworks. Mr. Egner said the theme for this year's Tattoo is "Heritage to Horizons." Both past and