• Happy 25th birthday, AFMC!

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, commander of Air Force Materiel Command (center); Maj. Gen. Warren D. Berry (left), AFMC vice commander; and Chief Master Sgt. Jason L. France, AFMC command chief, prepare to cut a cake commemorating AFMC's 25th anniversary. A brief

  • 88th Financial Analysis Flight manages budget for 88th Air Base Wing

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The business of ensuring the financial resources of the 88th Air Base Wing are managed properly is not just a task that is fulfilled at the beginning of a fiscal year or at year-end closeout on Sept. 30.In fact, it’s a daily process that even under optimal

  • Acquisition as wargame

    The Pentagon’s Air Force acquisition office challenged teams to protect nearly one million users from dangerous malware during a pilot wargame held June 26-30 at the Hanscom Conference Center here.The wargame scenario was ripped from the headlines and one of the three participating teams were

  • Focus Week registration opens for courses being offered July 24-28

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The third Focus Week of 2017, scheduled for July 24-28 at the 88th Air Base Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is approaching. Registration opens June 30 and continues until the day before each course is held. The July Focus Week is focused on career

  • One of the most important doctors you’ll never meet

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It started in the stairwell of a New York City subway station. “So, I was coming up out of the subway and I was climbing up the stairs. Some of the stations in the city have huge flights of stairs,” said Maj. (Dr.) Luisa Watts.Then a civilian, Watts was

  • Genatempo to lead Armament Directorate

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Col. Anthony Genatempo will become the Program Executive Officer for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate located at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.  Genatempo, who was recently selected for promotion to brigadier general, is currently

  • Nephrology Clinic provides treatment and care of kidney disease

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Medical Group nephrology clinic offers evaluation and treatment of renal (kidney) diseases. The most common conditions patients are seen for at the clinic are chronic kidney disease, elevated creatinine, acute kidney injury, hypertension, and kidney

  • Airman looks to sister for re-enlistment ceremony

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- An ophthalmic technician in the 88th Medical Group, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, didn’t choose to be sworn in by her unit commander when she was ready to re-enlist. Instead, she turned to a family member – her younger sister.The re-enlistment ceremony for

  • Wright-Patt goes to the bees

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Hundreds of base personnel and members of the public were buzzing about the same thing at the Wright Brothers Memorial June 21 – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s status as the first military installation nationwide to be declared a “Bee City USA.”A first-ever

  • Wright-Patterson provides mutual aid to Southwest Ohio

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio -- The occasional blare of a fire engine, flash of lights and heavy sound of tires on pavement rolling past a window likely doesn’t warrant the raise of an eyebrow for those living and working on base here, but the impact of Wright-Patterson’s first responders reaches far