AFMC Command News

  • Vaccine team makes progress in Detroit

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The 120 Airmen from the 88th Medical Group who departed for a COVID-19 mission in Detroit have been diligent by putting shots in arms.The team has provided 5,000 vaccines a day, and another thousand have been delivered by mobile vaccination teams, which local

  • Celebrate military children in April, year round

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas -- Each year, communities worldwide look to April as an important month for children who have one or both parents or guardians serving in uniform. Considered the military’s youngest heroes, in many ways children serve too. That’s why we honor them during the

  • CEMIRT, APE hit the road for installation support in COVID-19 era

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – After a year of strict travel restrictions, teams with the Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Operation Directorate are back on the road more often in support of installations around the globe.Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the directorate had an aggressive travel

  • AFRL Executive Director to retire March 31

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Jack Blackhurst, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, will retire from federal service March 31 culminating a career of a combined 46 years of military and civilian federal service. The retirement ceremony will be broadcast live,

  • AFRL civilian receives NATO SET Panel Team Excellence Award

    Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, the Radar Sensing technical lead with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate, recently won the NATO Sensors and Electronic Technology Panel Team Excellence Award for his contributions to the NATO SET-ET-236 panel on compressive sensing for radar and

  • Gift registration for Airmen returns to 2021 Air Force Marathon

    Air Force Marathon registrants can gift a paid entry fee to any junior active-duty, Reserve and Guard enlisted member stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.Gift registrations are available for the half and full marathon. All military members (E-1 to E-6) interested in receiving a donated

  • RSO branch searches for next bright idea

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The adage, generally credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, says if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.  But what if no one knows you did it?    With Lt. Gen. Shaun Morris, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, as Program

  • Security Forces bring out big guns at Army base

    CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. – For heavier weapons such as the M240B, M249, M2 machine gun and M203 grenade launcher, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base combat-arms instructors travel one state over to qualify personnel at an outdoor range.“The 7.62 mm bullets for the M240Bs are too large for our indoor