• Wright-Patt Medical Center to host MHS GENESIS Town Hall May 3

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Leading up to Wright-Patterson Medical Center’s transition to the Military Health System’s new electronic health record June 3, Col. Dale Harrell, 88th Medical Group commander, will host a town hall May 3 from 11 a.m. to noon at the Wright-Patterson Club Main

  • AFIT fellow completes simulated Mars mission

    Master Sgt. Nicholas Pender recently got a rare peek at the red planet.In February, the Air Force Institute of Technology Education with Industry fellow served as health and safety officer for the American Public University System Analog Research Group’s first analog astronaut mission to The Mars

  • Team celebrates Bahrain's first F-16 Block 70 aircraft

    F-16 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Bahrain team celebrated the first Bahrain F-16 Block 70 aircraft to roll off the newly operational Lockheed Martin production line, during a March 10 ceremony in Greenville, S.C.

  • First lady, WPAFB ‘Joining Forces’ to support military families

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base hosted first lady Jill Biden on March 29 as part of her Joining Forces initiative.Joining Forces centers on military family needs in the areas of employment and entrepreneurship; military child education; and health and

  • Wright-Patterson remembers Holocaust

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Over 80 years has passed since the persecution and murder of European Jews by the Nazi Germans during the Holocaust. Time has moved forward, but Wright-Patterson observes Holocaust Remembrance Day every year to honor those who were either directly affected or

  • Civil Engineer School celebrates a 75-year milestone

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- In March 1948, the newly established Air Force Institute of Technology’s Air Installations Special Staff School, known today as the Civil Engineer School, held its first class of 31 students ranging in rank from first lieutenant to lieutenant

  • More than 200 AFIT scholars earn diplomas at 2023 graduation

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Over 200 graduates endured years of late nights, long hours, painstaking research and pandemic ups and downs to finally cross the stage and receive their diplomas from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management on