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Barrie Barber

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Barrie Barber is a reporter for Cox Media Group Ohio covering military and veterans affairs.

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Area groups send people, supplies to tornado-stricken town

Organizations from around the area headed to Moore, Okla., on Tuesday to help the city recover from Monday’s tornado that destroyed property for miles and killed 24 people, including nine children.“We are in full disaster mode,” said Joodi Archer, development & media director of Matthew 25: Ministries in Blue Ash. ...

  • 5:36 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Over 15,000 runners at the start of the United States Air Force 16th annual Air Force Marathon early Saturday morning at the National Museum of the USAF Contributed Photo by Charles Caperton

Air Force half marathon, 5K sold out

All 15,000 running slots for the Air Force Marathon on Sept. 21 could sell out within days after a 5K contest and a half marathon sold out, organizers say. Both of those races reached the limit last week on the number of runners allowed to participate, said Tiffany Johnson, a ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Audience members listen to a speaker in front of a poster of the U.S. Capitol building where the Dayton Business Journal - sponsored defense forum at Wright State University Thursday looked at the prospects for an upcoming round of BRAC. Information was crentered on what companies are doing to deal with Department of Defense budget cuts. JIM WITMER / STAFF

Wright-Patterson bracing for another round of base closures

Facing massive spending cuts and excess infrastructure, high-ranking Pentagon leaders have urged at least one more round of military base closures, which could start in 2017, the former chairman of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission said Thursday. The Air Force has 500 fewer aircraft and about 20 percent ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
Col. Cassie Barlow, 88th Air Base Wing Commander, talked with the media Tuesday about sequestration. BOB GARLOCK / STAFF

Wright-Patt employees will face 11 furlough days starting in early July

Thousands of Wright-Patterson civilian employees won’t spend as much time off the job without pay after the Pentagon dropped the number of furlough days to 11 from 14 on Tuesday. The reduction cut in half the 22 furlough days that 13,000 local civil service workers originally faced earlier this year, ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Dr. Rick Buenaventura talks with veteran patient Bobby Henderson of Sugarcreek Twp. about back pain relief treatments at Pain Relief of Dayton office in Centerville on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 in this file photo.

Report: Pentagon could save billions by making military retirees pay more

The Pentagon could slash the defense budget by more than $900 billion over a decade without sacrificing significant combat capabilities, according to a Washington think tank. The Stimson Center, which labels itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit, assembled recommendations to slash spending on personnel compensation, the use of manpower and procurement ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tuskegee Airmen exhibit, P-51 join air show

A traveling exhibit highlighting the history of the Tuskegee Airmen and a World War II-era Red Tail P-51 Mustang will join the line-up at the Vectren Dayton Air Show. Rise Above, a 30-seat theater with a panoramic screen, documents the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first black military pilots ...

  • 7:35 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013
ScanEagle UAV flown by the University of North Dakota Aerospace program. In December, Ohio should find out whether it is chosen to host one of six sites that U.S. officials are to designate around the country for five years of test-flying unmanned aircraft to demonstrate that they can fly in airspace used by manned planes. Those designations by the Federal Aviation Administration could help the host states attract hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and long-term business investment and burnish their credentials as go-to centers for expertise in unmanned aircraft, which are projected to have a worldwide market worth $90 billion during the next 10 years. With Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and supporting commercial and university aerospace production, research and development capability already in place, Dayton leaders are hoping the state will be among those the FAA selects. Even if Ohio should be bypassed, its existing aerospace capabilities should help it build long-lasting relationships with the FAA, Air Force and NASA, Ohio's advocates said.

NASA picks Dayton group to manage UAV prize contest

NASA has selected a Dayton non-profit organization to manage the only unmanned aerial systems contest in the nation to help make UAVs safe to fly in civilian airspace, the space agency said Friday. Development Projects Inc., the public sector funding arm of the Dayton Development Coalition, will run the two-stage ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Saturday, May 11, 2013
Left, Glenn Liston, Aerospace Engineer and Col. Art Huber with a 1500 lb. 14 foot full scale mockup of the X-51 Hydrodcarbon Scramjet Powered Hypersonic Waverider Flight Demonstration Vehicle, a fast flying missle to “take out” distant, time critical targets in minutes. JIM WITMER / STAFF

Hypersonic jet hits over 3,300 mph, started at Wright-Patt

An unmanned experimental aircraft, that traces its genesis to the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson, has made history by reaching five times the speed of sound during the longest air-breathing, scramjet powered hypersonic flight. On its fourth and final test May 1, the $300 million X-51 Waverider program reached ...

  • 12:05 a.m. Friday, May 10, 2013
The USAF Reserve 445th Airlift Wing has transitioned to the C-17 Globemaster III from the C-5A Galaxy giant cargo jets that once flew through the skies of Dayton from Wright-Patterson AFB. The base is now home to nine of the large cargo jets.

Boeing delivers C-17 training center to Wright-Patterson

Air Force C-17 pilots and load masters will be able to train at Wright-Patterson with the addition of a new weapon systems training center, according to Boeing. The center was part of a $44 million contract to build weapon systems trainers at three military bases, Boeing said. The individual cost ...

  • 4:12 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013
From left, U.S. congressmen Mike Turner, R-Ohio, Frank LoBiondo, R-New Jersey, and Paul Cook, R-Calif., were among the House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee chaired by Turner taking part in a field hearing on unmanned aircraft systems on Tuesday, April 23, at Sinclair Community College. Behind Turner is Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, The hearing coincided with the opening of the two-day Ohio UAS Conference hosted by the Dayton Development Coalition. CHRIS STEWART / STAFF

Dayton congressman goes to White House today to discuss sex abuse in the military

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, met with White House officials today to discuss the issue of sexual assault in the military.Turner was to meet with President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Tina Tchen, the chief of staff to first lady ...

  • Updated: 12:47 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013
 

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