Air Force

Level Up Week at Wright-Patterson AFB to emphasize personal, professional development

Level Up Week's goal is to enhance mission viability and improve quality of life for airmen and civilians, while implementing collaborative projects that provide mutual value to the government.

Process changes for visitor passes to Wright-Patterson

The Air Force has implemented a new biometric-identification system at multiple bases across the country.

Sneak peek of new Air Force coveralls elicits mostly poor reviews on popular website

A slide presentation showing the design and color of the Air Force’s new maintenance duty uniform was leaked online recently to mostly poor reviews.

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University of New Mexico tapped for Air Force space program

The Air Force Research Laboratory last month announced the winning teams for the Space University Research Initiative, or SURI program. The University of New Mexico will have a presence on a team formed to tackle space logistics and mobility issues.

A 157-acre tract southeast of Camp Blanding was bought for conservation with funding routed through the Clay County Development Authority and a federal defense readiness grant program.

Fla. nonprofit buys land southeast of Camp Blanding for conservation

The property, southeast of the Florida National Guard’s camp, is north of Florida 100 inside an area that defense officials consider a “compatible use buffer” where the military wants to avoid development that might interfere with Guard training and other base operations.

FILE - A sign is displayed outside a house for sale in Pittsburgh, Jan. 4, 2019. The Biden administration is looking to expand reporting requirements on all-cash real estate deals to help crack down on bad actors' use of the U.S. market to launder money made through illicit activity. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Former Gettysburg Air Force base on market for $4.5 million

While the 42-acre base in South Dakota is no longer active, the Federal Aviation Administration continues to operate a radar site on the property at Gettysburg.

$12 billion deal may bring hundreds of Qatar, US Air Force members to Idaho base

Members of Qatar's air force would live on Mountain Home Air Force Base to learn to fly the newest model of the F-15 fighter jet specially modified for the Persian Gulf state.

Air Force team helps Arizona hospital care for COVID patients

Now about halfway through a 30-day deployment at Yuma Regional, the Air Force team's members are stepping in to help the hospital's personnel wherever help is needed.

The Air Force Thunderbird team flies in formation during the 2012 Rhode Island Open House Air Show.

Air show to return after 3-year hiatus; RI National Guard announces dates, new name

Always among Rhode Island’s most anticipated events, the air show is no longer free. It also has a new name, “Ocean State Air Show.”

How the Ohio National Guard is helping provide support at Dayton Children’s COVID testing site

Getting a COVID-19 test will be quicker for anyone in the region thanks to the assistance of the Ohio Army and Air National Guard.

Amid record COVID-19 cases, Wisconsin National Guard helps nursing homes, hospitals

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations at record levels, Wisconsin National Guard members have started working at nursing homes to care for residents and free up beds at overwhelmed hospitals, officials said Thursday.

From left: Gregory Leingang, 88th Air Base Wing vice director; Col. Christian Lyons, 88th Medical Group commander; and Col. Patrick Miller, 88 ABW and installation commander, talk with 88th Medical Group Airmen from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base who were working in the community vaccination center’s registration area last May at Ford Field in Detroit.

Wright-Patterson medical personnel deployed again in COVID fight

Personnel from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s 88th Medical Group are being deployed again to help civilian hospitals in their fight against COVID.