FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ~ 11 AUG 2009

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Road Trip: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Greene and Montgomery counties, eight miles northeast of the central business district of Dayton, Ohio. Part of the base is located along the city limits of Riverside and is also adjacent to Fairborn and Beavercreek.

The base is named after the Wright brothers, who used the Huffman Prairie portion of what became Wright-Patterson as their testing ground, and Frank Stuart Patterson, son and nephew of the co-founders of National Cash Register, who was killed on June 19, 1918, in the crash of his Airco DH.4 at Wilbur Wright Field.

Wright-Patterson AFB is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, one of the major commands of the Air Force. Wright-Patterson AFB is also the location of a major USAF Medical Center, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly known as the U.S. Air Force Museum.

Wright-Patterson's history as a military installation dates from World War I. Its aviation history, however, began in 1904-1905 when Wilbur and Orville Wright used an 84-acre plot of land, known as the Huffman Prairie Flying Field, for their experimental test flights. Here the Wright Brothers solved the final secrets of aerodynamics, learned to fly, and developed the first truly practical airplane-their 1905 Flyer.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, three military installations were established in the Dayton area. Two of these would become part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The third was located near downtown Dayton. Their original missions-logistics, research and development, and military education-are the same missions that have been performed at Wright-Patterson to this day.

Learn More About The History Of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base HERE!

With headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) conducts research, development, test and evaluation, and provides acquisition management services and logistics support necessary to keep Air Force weapon systems ready for war.

AFMC delivers war-winning expeditionary capabilities to the warfighter through development and transition of technology, professional acquisition management, exacting test and evaluation.

It is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, an Air Mobility Command-gained unit which flies the C-5 Galaxy heavy airlifter. Wright-Patterson is also the headquarters of the Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Today, as in the early 1900s, Wright-Patterson is where weapons systems are tested and modified. Missions range from logistics management, research and development, education, flight operations, and many other defense related activities. Wright-Patterson AFB is the home to the Air Force Institute of Technology, an educational institution that supports the Air Force and the Department of Defense.

It also contains the USAF's high-security National Air & Space Intelligence Center, where in the cold-war era captured Soviet MIGs were brought to what was then known as the Foreign Technology Division for disassembly and testing.

Learn More About Wright-Patterson Air Force Base HERE!

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official National Museum of the United States Air Force and is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Riverside just outside of Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum. More than 400 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. The museum draws over 1.3 million visitors per year and one of the single most visited tourist attractions in Ohio.

The museum dates back to 1923 when the Engineering Division at Dayton's McCook Field first collected technical artifacts for preservation. In 1927 it moved to then-Wright Field and was housed in a succession of buildings.

In 1954 as the Air Force Museum it was housed in its first permanent facility, Building 89 of the former Patterson Field in Fairborn, which had been an engine overhaul hangar, and many of its aircraft were parked outside and exposed to the weather. It remained there until 1971 when the current facility was first opened. Not including its annex on Wright Field proper, the museum has more than tripled in square footage since its inception in 1971.

Visit The National Museum Of The United States Air Force HERE!

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August 11, 2009

GAD Or God?

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READ: 1 Peter 5:6-11

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. —1 Peter 5:7

Are you a chronic worrier? Do you worry about bills, the future, health, debt, marriage issues? Has worry so consumed you that you have become “a fret machine”? If this describes you, perhaps you have generalized anxiety disorder, or GAD—a condition marked by a perpetual state of worry about most aspects of life. According to David Barlow, professor of psychology at Boston University, “the key psychological feature of GAD is a state of chronic, uncontrollable worry.” A little anxiety is normal, but constant worry is not.

Overwhelmed by suffering and persecution, the first-century Christians were driven out of Jerusalem and scattered throughout Asia (1 Peter 1:1-7). Many of these Jesus-followers were experiencing feelings of distress because of possible danger or misfortune. Peter encouraged these believers not to be filled with anxiety but to cast all their worries upon God (5:7). He wanted them to realize that it made very little sense for them to carry their worries when they could cast them on God who cared deeply about what happened to them.

Are you a chronic worrier? Let God be responsible for your anxieties. Stop worrying and start trusting Him completely.

When every worry, every care
To God in faith is brought,
We have no place whereon to found
One single anxious thought. —Anon.

Worry is a burden God never intended us to bear.
Bible in One Year: Psalms 81-83; Romans 11:19-36

Master Sgt. Sean Roberts, 455th Expeditionary Medical Group, is the Warrior of the Week and a critical care technician in the Intensive Care Unit at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital. His job entails care for U.S., Coalition and Afghan patients. Sergeant Roberts is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and is a native of Tampa, Fla.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Dawn Seymour, World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), tours the flight deck of a 445th Airlift Wing C-5 Galaxy aircraft. Four WASPs were special guests of the July 17 Third Annual Wings of Women Conference attended by 46 young women in grades 9-12. Part of the day-long event included a stop at the 445th Airlift Wing for a wing mission briefing, 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron presentation and C-5 tour. (Air Force photo/Senior Airman Mikhail Berlin)

Capt. Elisabeth Leon, lead engineer for the Nangarhar Provincial Reconstruction Team, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, speaks with a local contractor as part of a quality assurance inspection of a development site in Jalalabad May 30, 2009. The PRT is responsible for development and reconstruction projects in Nangarhar Province. The projects are built by local and contractors and are designed to improve the livelihood of the people living in the area. Captain Leon is deployed from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff. Sgt. Shawn Weismiller)

Road Trip: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

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