• Dodgeball: an exercise in resiliency

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Air Base Wing Chapel community hosted a resiliency event under the guise of a dodgeball tournament March 16 at the Jarvis gym on Area A.Twelve teams of six to eight players from across Wright-Patt signed up to dodge-duck-dip-dive-and-dodge their way

  • Taking care of our own

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 2018 Air Force Assistance Fund annual fund raising drive officially kicked off March 26 with a breakfast event at the USO on Area A. The drive will run through May 4.The AFAF campaign is an annual, on-the-job fundraising appeal conducted by Air Force

  • AFRL Commander’s Challenge: competition drives spirit of innovation

    REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama - Teams from Air Force Materiel Command bases around the country came together to answer the Air Force Research Laboratory Commander’s Challenge--precision, austere resupply. Move 50 pounds of supplies 30 miles and deliver them to a 20 X 20 foot drop zone.“So, the idea is

  • Under Secretary lauds AFIT students for their cutting-edge work

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew P. Donovan visited Wright-Patt March 13 to give the keynote address for the 2018 Air Force Operations Research Symposium at the Air Force Institute of Technology.During his address Donovan lauded the students for their

  • AFLCMC recognizes top engineers at annual awards ceremony

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Engineering Directorate held its 2017 Annual Engineering Awards Ceremony Feb. 15, at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Kenney Hall, with other AFLCMC organizations across the country connected by video

  • Are you all in?

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Air Force Materiel Command’s senior enlisted leaders recently hosted a three day chief master sergeant orientation course. Thirty four newly minted chiefs from AFMC assignments worldwide gathered at Wright-Patt to get some perspective on their new

  • Collaboration delivers capability to the warfighter

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON Air Force Base, Ohio - Members of  Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's acquisition team continued their effort to improve Air Force operations while reducing critical capability delivery timelines. This past December, the F-22 Program Office and the Rapid Development

  • Chapel group fully embraces 2nd core value: Service before self

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – When Harvey bore down on the Houston, Texas, area as a category 4 hurricane, then stalled for several days in late August 2017 it dropped records amount of rain, ultimately leading it to be the second most costly storm in U.S. history only behind Hurricane

  • Log rolling makes a splash at Wright-Patt

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of the Catholic Chapel Youth Group had the chance to give the century old art of birling, or log rolling, a try at the Dodge Gym pool Jan. 14.During the logging boom of the late 1800’s, America’s immense river systems were often times the only way to