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NAMRU Dayton gets its own Osprey
An U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey belonging to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 21 (HX-21) makes its approach to a runway on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Area B, near the National Museum of the Air Force Dec. 19, 2017. The aircraft was signed over to Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton to be used in research to minimize injuries to aircrew members. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
NAMRU Dayton gets its own Osprey
An U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey belonging to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 21 (HX-21) lands at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Area B, near the National Museum of the Air Force Dec. 19, 2017. The aircraft was signed over to Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton to be used in research to minimize injuries to aircrew members. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
NAMRU Dayton gets its own Osprey
Members of Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton conduct a foreign-object-damage walk-down Dec. 19, 2017, on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Area B flight line in advance of the arrival of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The unit was preparing the seldom-used runway near the National Museum of the Air Force for the arrival the plane that was signed over to the unit for medical research. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
NAMRU Dayton gets its own Osprey
Navy Cmdr. Tatana Olson, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory deputy director, joins her Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton shipmates in a foreign-object-damage walk-down Dec. 19, 2017, on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Area B flight line in preparation for the arrival of a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The aircraft was acquired by NAMRU-D to be used in research to minimize injuries to aircrew members. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
NAMRU Dayton gets its own Osprey
Members of Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton watch a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey approach over Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Dec. 19, 2017. NAMRU-D was acquiring the aircraft for use in medical research with the goal of minimizing injuries to aircrew members and maintenance workers. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
114th Anniversity of Powered Flight
Col. Bradley McDonald, 88th Air Base Wing commander, addresses the 114th Anniversary of First Powered Flight attendees gathered at the Huffman Prairie Interpretive Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Dec. 15, 2017. The event honors the accomplishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright as first to fly pioneers of powered aviation. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
114th Anniversity of Powered Flight
Amanda and Stephen Wright, the great-grandniece and grandnephew of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright join Col. Bradley McDonald, 88th Air Base Wing commander, in laying a wreath at the Wright Brothers Memorial, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, December 15, 2017. The ceremony commemorates the world’s first successful heavier-than-air powered flight by the Wright Brothers 114 years ago. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Al Bright)
114th Anniversity of Powered Flight
From the left, Dan Patterson, aviation photographer and author, Amanda and Stephen Wright, great-grandniece and grandnephew of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright and Col. Bradley McDonald, 88th Air Base Wing commander, observe a World War II T-1 flight trainer in a flyover during the first flight ceremony at the Wright Brothers Memorial, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Dec. 15, 2017. The ceremony, with the flyover, commemorates the world’s first successful, heavier-than-air, powered flight by the Wright Brothers 114 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
114th Anniversity of Powered Flight
Amanda and Stephen Wright, the great-grandniece and grandnephew of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, join Col. Bradley McDonald, 88th Air Base Wing commander, in laying a wreath at the Wright Brothers Memorial, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Dec. 15, 2017. The ceremony commemorates the world’s first successful, heavier-than-air, powered flight by the Wright Brothers 114 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo/Al Bright)
General Server
General Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command commander, serves up dinner to enlisted airman at the Pitsenbarger dining facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base December 12, 2017. As an annual one evening event WPAFB top leadership act as servers at the base dining facility during the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Al Bright/Released)
General Servers
From the left, Lieutenant General Robert McMurry, Jr., Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, General Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command Center commander, Ms. Patricia Young, Air Force Materiel Command executive director and Ms. Kathy Watern, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center executive director, stand by to serve holiday dinner to base enlisted members at the Pitsenbarger dining facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base December 12, 2017. As an annual one evening event WPAFB top leadership act as servers at the base dining facility during the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Al Bright/Released)
Annual Wright-Patt Cookie Drive
Hundreds of boxes of donated, homemade cookies are ready for distribution while volunteers pack more.The cookie drive was sponsored by the Wright-Patterson Enlisted Spouses Club, Wright-Patterson Officers Spouses Club, First Command, First Sergeants Council, United Service Organization of Central and Southern Ohio and the City of Fairborn. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
Annual Wright-Patt Cookie Drive
Judy Lloyd, left, Kindra McPhail, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Enlisted Spouse Club president, and Krista McDonald, wife of 88th Air Base Wing commander Col. Bradley McDonald, unload cookies from Lloyd’s car Dec. 6, 2017, in front of the Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio, USO. Lloyd, who recently retired from the Air Force Materiel Command, said she got together with a group friends and baked close to 1000 cookies for the annual drive. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Annual Wright-Patt Cookie Drive
Lt. Col. Galen Ojala, National Air and Space Intelligence Center commander, and Tim Moore, USO volunteer, load donated cookies onto a cart while Master Sgt. Brian McPhail, also of NASIC, get more from a van Dec. 6, 2017, as they deliver cookies to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USO for the base’s 17th annual Airmen’s Holiday Cookie Drive. NASIC was one of the drop-off points for people wanting to donate homemade baked goods to be given out to the base’s unaccompanied Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
Airmen’s Holiday Cookie Drive to be held Dec. 5
Tech. Sgt. Season Hurley, 88th Medical Support Squadron, and others pack an assortment of homemade cookies into boxes Dec. 6, 2017, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base USO Community Center during the annual cookie drive. Boxes of donated cookies are to be distributed this holiday season to some 1,100 unaccompanied Airmen. (U.S. Air Force photo/R.J. Oriez)
Category III Civilian of the Year 2021
Alana Kitchen, 88th Air Base Wing Staff Agencies, Category III Civilian of the Year. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
13th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck
David Mollenhauer, ETHOS team captain, prepares “The Phoenix” for the annual Pumpkin Chuck Oct. 27, 2017 behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The Phoenix, labeled an “Experimental Torsion Hybrid Onager System” uses the torque of a coiled rope to throw the pumpkin downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
13th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck
Event staff measure the distance of a pumpkin chuck in the Class B portion of the 13th annual Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Pumpkin Chuck Oct. 27, 2017. Competitors in three classes competed to see who could throw a pumpkin the furthest using different types of catapult-type machines. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
13th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck
Danielle Hagen points out features of the catapults to her children, Hannah, 7, and Henry, 5, during a break in the 13th annual Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Pumpkin Chuck Oct. 27, 2017. Spectators got a chance to inspect the various types of launchers that succeeded in throwing pumpkins as much as a half-mile downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
13th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck
Members of Team ETHOS climb over The Phoenix preparing to fire to fire her during the 13th annual Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Pumpkin Chuck behind the National Museum of the Air Force Oct. 27, 2017. The Phoenix, an experimental torsion hybrid that uses the torqued of twisted ropes for its throwing power, took the Class A title by hurling a 10-pound pumpkin more than 3100 feet. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)