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A senior US military scientist working on advanced propulsion technologies allegedly tricked a contractor into hiring an unqualified sex worker — who then went on to service other scientists at the Air Force base. Dr. James Gord, a highly decorated civilian Air Force employee who died last September due to unspecified causes, had allegedly paid the 32-year-old sex worker $400 an hour for her services using a government charge card, according to a recently unsealed search warrant application obtained by the Daily Beast. According to federal investigators, Gord convinced Sukesh Roy, chief executive of Spectral Energies, a contractor based at...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was placed under lockdown Thursday night after there were reports of an active shooter at a building that’s part of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC).

The Controversy of the “Secret Space Program” Nick Redfern July 1, 2019 Even a brief surf of the Net will show that there is a great deal of information on what has become known as the “Secret Space Program.” Much of it is made up garbage, created and promoted by nuts and charlatans. But, not all of it. Are powerful people controlling our access to what is known about outer space and the possibilities of alien life? A study of the available data strongly suggests the answer is a definitive “Yes!” Taking things even further, there are good, solid indications...

Reports of an active shooter sent emergency responders to the hospital at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio on Thursday afternoon. A spokesperson for the Air Force base confirmed on Twitter that base emergency responders, including security forces and the fire department, responded to an active shooter incident at a building at the base’s hospital at around 12:40 p.m. local time. “Base personnel have been directed to shelter in place until the incident is investigated,” the base said in a second, which was followed by a third.

Wright-Patterson Medical Center has removed a Bible from a POW/MIA display after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation lodged a complaint, according to a base spokesperson. Mikey Weinstein, MRFF founder and president, said in a telephone interview today the organization was contacted by 31 people who objected to the Bible as part of the table display and 10 of those who complained were identified as Christians. “They objected very clearly that having the Christian Bible on that table provided supremacy to one faith over all the other faiths and since these are government facilities that’s a direct violation of the no...

Reading "Masters and Commanders," Andrew Roberts's magnificent account of British and American leaders in World War II, I was struck by how many of them, working prodigious hours and under great strain, were struck down by heart attacks while in their 60s. This doesn't happen anymore, I thought, with the blood pressure and cholesterol medicines many of us routinely take. But it does, as we were reminded by the sudden death at age 69 this week of Richard Holbrooke, who was working prodigiously as Barack Obama's special representative for AfPak, i.e., Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke was known in cynical Washington...

The US Air Force on Wednesday test launched a hypersonic cruise missile, with the vehicle accelerating to Mach 6 before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, officials said. The Air Force said the test flight of the X-15A Waverider lasted more than 200 seconds, the longest ever hypersonic flight powered by scramjet propulsion. The previous record was 12 seconds in a NASA X-43 vehicle. "We are ecstatic to have accomplished most of our test points on the X-51A's very first hypersonic mission," Charlie Brink, program manager with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. "We...

Wright-Patterson museum asks for a space shuttle Monday, April 6, 2009 3:11 AM DAYTON DAILY NEWS DAYTON -- The U.S. Air Force museum is making a bid to land one of NASA's space shuttles after the fleet is retired in late 2010. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley sent a letter to the space agency in March making the request. NASA hasn't indicated when it will make a decision on where the retired orbiters will be displayed. NASA spokesman Mike Curie said it is in everyone's interest to find a location where the shuttles can be seen by the greatest number...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Moving wounded American servicemembers from the frontlines in Southwest Asia to hospitals in the United States is no easy task. The effort requires everything from treating patients in forward-deployed locations to airlifting and caring for them as they move from overseas to stateside locations. One Air Force Reserve Command unit involved in this effort is the 445th Airlift Wing here. Since Oct. 10, 2001, U.S. military aircraft have moved more than 26,000 patients from Southwest Asia to Europe, and more than 18,000 of them went on C-141 Starlifters -- most belonging to the...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Scientists, faculty and students will have greater access to research opportunities through a landmark Memorandum of Agreement signed July 26 between the Air Force Institute of Technology and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Maj. Gen. Perry L. Lamy, AFRL commander, and Brig. Gen. Mark T. Matthews, AFIT commandant, signed the agreement. "This solidifies the long-standing relationship and common goals that both organizations share and allows us to more fully leverage our resources," said General Lamy after signing the agreement. "Both organizations have a critical role in creating the Air Force of the future,...

Voinovich visits local base as deadline nears for closure recommendations U.S. Sen. George Voinovich was in the area Friday stumping for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the 178th Fighter Wing Air National Guard base in Springfield as the deadline for the base realignment and closure recommendations approaches. Voinovich, a Republican, toured the National Guard base Friday morning and is hosting a roundtable discussion at the Young's Jersey Dairy with several Springfield-area community advocates to discuss the BRAC process. In just a few weeks, the waiting will be over for the local bases and military installations across the country. The U.S....

Bombing Baghdad was just as trainer showed it would beBy Margo Rutledge Kissell, Dayton Daily NewsWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE-- After launching a missile over Baghdad, a F-16 pilot later sent an e-mail on how the experience compared to being in a training simulator developed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. "The cool part is that the location of my flight and the tactics employed were EXACTLY like we were practicing .... It was pretty cool to see the terrain and scenario "as practiced." Talk about 'Mission Rehearsal,'" wrote Maj. David Meyer, who launched the first High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile of Operation Iraqi...

<p>There are reports that four men from the Middle East who are being held in the Tri-State may have issued threats at an Ohio Air Force Base.</p> <p>The men -- Sanjar Yormuhamdov, Sayfitdin Mulloer, Kahranan Pultov, and Zohirjon Zahidon -- are from Uzbekistan, a former Soviet bloc nation. They were arrested Friday in Fairborn, Ohio, near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported.</p>