AFMC Command News

  • Installation-wide Active Shooter exercise slated

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - In a base-wide exercise next Wednesday morning, Wright-Patt, Areas A and B, will go into full lock-down in response to an Active Shooter exercise scenario.“On the 26th of February at 8:30 in the morning, we are going to initiate an Active Shooter Exercise in

  • Tyndall PMO makes every dollar count through community partnerships

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – As Tyndall AFB rebuilds from the ground up, the Tyndall Program Management Office has one clear objective in managing the multibillion-dollar endeavor: make every dollar count.The Air Force Community Partnership program is one way the base accomplishes this, through

  • Setting up for success: Skillbridge helps transition to civilian workforce

    Skillbridge helps make the future less uncertain for military members separating from the service. The program is an opportunity for service members to gain valuable civilian work experience through specific industry training, apprenticeships, on-the-job training or internships during the last 180

  • DoD to restructure 50 hospitals, clinics to improve readiness

    The Department of Defense announced, Feb. 19, plans to restructure 50 military hospitals and clinics to better support wartime readiness of military personnel and to improve clinical training for medical forces who deploy in support of combat operations around the world.

  • Grey Wolf begins testing

    The Air Force’s newest helicopter, the MH-139A Grey Wolf, completed its first combined test flight here Feb. 11.

  • 2020 to be pivotal year in maintenance, logistics training transformation

    The 82nd delivers more than 65,000 graduates annually in more than 900 maintenance, logistics, civil engineering and some cyber and missile maintenance courses. These courses cover not only initial skills training, but advanced and specialty courses delivered at 60 locations around the globe.

  • Micro Drone Race to take place at National Museum USAF on Feb 29

    National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will have the opportunity to see fast flying micro machines as 40 pilots maneuver their drones over, under, around and through the C-124 and F-82 aircraft during a micro drone race that will take place in the museum’s second building on Feb.

  • AFLCMC team plays key role in Presidential travel

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., – When President Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan last November to spend time with U.S. troops over the Thanksgiving holiday, a directorate from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center played a key role in ensuring both VC-25A aircraft, more commonly known

  • Air Force Marathon director receives Rising Star award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force Marathon director, Brandon Hough, was awarded the Rising Star award at the 2020 Running USA Industry Conference in Las Vegas, Feb. 9.The Running USA Rising Star award recognizes a young professional in the sport who has demonstrated strong

  • X-1 Mustang now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

    An X-1 Mustang named after the first aircraft to break the speed of sound is now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Mustang was one of two custom-built cars commissioned by the Air Force Recruiting Service in 2009 for its Project Supercar recruiting campaign.Built by Galpin

  • AFRL, NASA, industry achieve successful liquid methane engine test

    EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, and Masten Space Systems Inc. successfully tested a liquid methane rocket engine, the first of its kind tested at AFRL.AFRL and Masten signed a Cooperative Research and Development