• Embrace the Messy: Resilience in Practice

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - In recent years, resilience has become a buzzword that fosters the ability to be strong and put on a front or facade. Still, I would strongly argue from my experiences that resilience is being vulnerable because being vulnerable equals strength.I feel that

  • Connecting helpers to those who need help

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Asking for help may be a sign of strength, not weakness, but sometimes it can be difficult to find the help that is needed. That’s where the new Wright-Patt Connect program steps in. It provides a single avenue of not just access, but direction to those

  • Col. Dustin Richards: Q&A with new 88th Air Base Wing commander

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Col. Dustin Richards took command of the 88th Air Base Wing and installation April 9.Richards, a career civil engineer, arrives at Wright-Patterson AFB from Air Force headquarters in Washington, where he was senior military assistant in the Office of the

  • Cultivating species, healing hearts

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Airmen and civilians gathered at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center’s Butterfly Garden to re-beautify the garden on May 3. The 88th Civil Engineer Group held the event to provide parents who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy or a child a space to

  • Military parents not alone with free program for new families

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – On top of daily missions, deployments and drills, many Airmen serve double duty as moms and dads. And while parenting young children hits anyone hard, service members must navigate unique challenges to uphold their responsibilities on both sides. A program

  • 75 years and counting

    FAIRBORN, Ohio -- Boy Scout Troop 162 marked its 75th anniversary Dec. 13 with a court of honor and dinner in Fairborn.While the troop is sponsored by, and meets at, Abiding Christ Lutheran Church, it started life in 1946 as the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base troop, chartered by the Wright-Patt

  • Operation Warm Heart assists families during holiday season

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The First Sergeants Council’s Operation Warm Heart continues to serve the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base community over the holiday season through the Adopt-A-Family Program.The campaign confidentially serves Airmen and civilians who qualify for additional

  • Q&A with new vice commander

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Col. Charles Barkhurst took his seat as the 88th Air Base Wing’s new vice commander July 1. Barkhurst joined the team from the Pentagon in Washington, where he served as senior military assistant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense Comptroller.In the

  • Block Party Concert at WPAFB features live music, food, fun

    Alexandra Burger, 6, daughter of Col. Paul Burger, dances and chases bubbles June 24, 2021, at a block party sponsored by the 88th Force Support Squadron at Turtle Pond in the brick quarters historic district at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The party, the first of a series of three through

  • AFMC launches new holistic resiliency effort

    The Air Force Materiel Command has launched a new initiative that aims to increase unit cohesion and connectedness by emphasizing a culture that holistically builds mental, physical, social and spiritual fitness across the enterprise. Driven by the Air Force Resilience Tactical Pause held in fall