WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Daryl Mayer The Honor Flight Network is an organization with chapters across the nation dedicated to celebrating America's veterans by escorting them to Washington DC to visit the nation's memorials. On Saturday, August 27, Honor Flight Dayton is asking for people to gather at the Dayton Airport to greet and cheer for more than 100 veterans returning that evening. "We just wan  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Aug. 26 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: By Whitney Wetsig, Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks traveled to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 17, 2022, where she visited an Air Force Research Laboratory thermal materials testing facility and was briefed on key areas including counter-directed energy weapons development, opportunities and challenges; AFRL pr  more

HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Florida, Aug. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Homestead Air Reserve Base (482nd Fighter Wing) issued the following news: By Robert H. Clark, 482nd Fighter Wing Historian Built in 1942, Homestead Army Airfield was destroyed three years later, on Sept. 15, 1945, by a hurricane with winds of 145 miles per hour. HAAF was officially abandoned three months later. In the three years it was open, the airfield trained hundreds of Air Force pilots who then went on to fly the Berlin  more

LEBANON, Illinois, Aug. 23 (TNSper) -- McKendree University issued the following news release: McKendree University is pleased to announce that several new faculty and staff members have joined our campus community. New faculty members include: Dr. Angela Gilbreth, DNP '22, assistant professor of nursing, has previously served as the director of nursing at Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC) in Belleville, Ill., and as an RN residency coordinator and nurse educator at St. Elizabeth's Hospita  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Air Force's Edwards Air Force Base issued the following news: By Patrick Foose, Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office The Air Force Research Laboratory Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office has invested $15 million upgrading a decades-old workhorse to make it relevant for 21st century warfighter challenges. AFRL's Autonomous Aircraft Experimentation team is using a highly modi  more