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56-469: EOYDC was founded in 1973 and opened its doors in 1978 by Robert B. Shetterly , then-CEO of Clorox . Although Shetterly was a prominent businessman and a long-time resident of Orinda , he also had ties in Oakland, and he encouraged a number of businesses to move to Oakland over other local cities. Clorox helped fund EOYDC in its early years and later on. Since it opened, it began providing free programs five days

112-689: A 1968 report concluded that "there seems to be no reason to attribute [the unexplained sightings] to an extraterrestrial source without much more convincing evidence." The FTD sent all of its case files to the USAF Historical Research Center , which transferred them in 1976 to the National Archives and Records Service in Washington, DC, which became the permanent repository of the Project Sign/Grudge/Blue Book records. In

168-403: A 1988 interview, Senator Barry Goldwater claimed he had asked Gen. Curtis LeMay for access to a secret UFO room at WPAFB and an angry LeMay said, "Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again." The Army Air Forces Technical Base ( Air Force Technical Base before being designated a USAF base) was formed on 15 December 1945, under Brig Gen Joseph T. Morris, during

224-481: A COVID-19 vaccination site in support of the Federal Emergency Management whole-of-government COVID response. The base sent medical Air Force professionals to New York City after airmen from the 445th Airlift Wing were deployed to aid the city's response . In addition to the command headquarters, major units formerly assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base include: Located adjacent to

280-510: A bachelor's degree in 1936. After graduation, Shetterly joined Procter & Gamble, where he focused on advertising. When the United States entered World War II, Shetterly was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Force . His first assignment was to teach radio operator mechanics. He then went to Officer Candidate School , where he became involved in a statistical control program run by Harvard Business School . After his officer training, he spent

336-609: A campaign that raised $ 425,000 in two days and purchased 4,520.47 acres (18.2937 km ) northeast of Dayton, including Wilbur Wright Field and the Huffman Prairie Flying Field. In 1924, the committee presented the deeds to President Calvin Coolidge for the construction of a new aviation engineering center. The entire acreage (including the Fairfield Air Depot) was designated Wright Field, which had units such as

392-513: A consistent profit, and some were eventually sold. In 1979, Shetterly was named chairman of the board of Clorox and remained in that position until 1982. He retired as the company's CEO in 1980. Shetterly was the driving force behind the establishment of the East Oakland Youth Development Center, for which he raised funds and donated an endowment. He also served as chairman of the organization's board, as president of

448-839: A long history of flight tests spanning from the Wright Brothers into the Space Age . It is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command , one of the major commands of the Air Force. "Wright-Patt" (as the base is colloquially called) is also the location of a major USAF Medical Center (hospital), the Air Force Institute of Technology , and the National Museum of the United States Air Force , formerly known as

504-629: A major independent, diversified company. Shetterly was also involved in numerous philanthropic and civic causes in Oakland, California , most notably as the chairman of the board of trustees of Mills College and the founder of the East Oakland Youth Development Center . Robert B. Shetterly was born in 1915 in Corning, New York . He attended the University of Rochester , where he earned

560-474: A week for people in the Elmhurst District of East Oakland . Since 1994, EOYDC has been under the leadership of Regina Jackson. The mission of EOYDC is to develop the social and leadership capacities of youth so that they succeed in education, career, and service to their communities. EOYDC works to incorporate relationship building, youth and community involvement, and skill building. It also aims to lessen

616-402: Is an after school program for students in kindergarten to 8th grade. The program provides homework help, tutoring, and enrichment activities. Pathway to College and Career is a readiness program to prepare students in 9th to 12th grade for post-secondary life, with an emphasis on college persistence and completion. The program has workshops, SAT prep, and discussion forums. From 2010 to 2016,

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672-742: Is approximately 16 kilometres (10 mi) northeast of Dayton ; Wright Field is approximately 8.0 kilometres (5 mi) northeast of Dayton. The host unit at Wright-Patterson AFB is the 88th Air Base Wing (88 ABW), assigned to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force Materiel Command . The 88 ABW operates the airfield, maintains all infrastructure and provides security, communications, medical, legal, personnel, contracting, finance, transportation, air traffic control, weather forecasting, public affairs, recreation and chaplain services for more than 60 associate units. The Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC)

728-651: Is the author Caitlin Shetterly , and his granddaughter-in-law and Caitlin's mother is the author Margot Lee Shetterly . Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ( WPAFB ) ( IATA : FFO , ICAO : KFFO , FAA LID : FFO ) is a United States Air Force base and census-designated place just east of Dayton, Ohio , in Greene and Montgomery counties. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. Patterson Field

784-547: The 137th Aero Squadron , were killed at Wright Field in the crash of their de Havilland DH.4 after its wings collapsed during a dive while firing at ground targets with a new synchronized-through–the–propeller machine gun. Patterson's grave and memorial arch is at Woodland Cemetery and Aborateum in Dayton, Ohio. The area's World War II Army Air Fields had employment increase from approximately 3,700 in December 1939 to over 50,000 at

840-639: The Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) began analysis of crashed Soviet aircraft from the Korean war. In March 1952, ATIC established an Aerial Phenomena Group to study reported UFO sightings, including those in Washington, DC, in 1952. By 1969, the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) and its predecessor organizations had studied 12,618 reported sightings: 701 remained unexplained when the Air Force closed its UFO investigations, and

896-594: The Bosnian War were held at the base, resulting in the Dayton Agreement , ending the war. The 88th Air Base Wing is commanded by Col. Travis W. Pond on an interim basis due to the removal of Col. Christopher B. Meeker who was relieved due to a loss of confidence in his ability to lead. Its Command Chief Master Sergeant is Chief Master Sergeant Lloyd E. Morales. The base had a total of 27,406 military, civilian and contract employees in 2010. The Greene County portion of

952-772: The C-17 Globemaster heavy airlifter . Wright-Patterson is also the headquarters of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory . Wright-Patterson is the host of the annual United States Air Force Marathon which occurs the weekend closest to the Air Force's anniversary. The base conducts neurotechnology research. Flying and notable non-flying units based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Units marked GSU are Geographically Separate Units, which although based at Wright-Patterson, are subordinate to

1008-566: The Mad River at the northeast boundary of the base, near the former location of the village of Osborn , were purchased for a Strategic Air Command dispersal site. Area D structures were demolished in 1957 (donated to the state in 1963 for Wright State University ). In February 1958 the Wright Field (Area B) runways were closed to all jet traffic (1959 Area C operations included 139,276 takeoffs and landings, Area B had 44,699.) The West Ramp complex

1064-608: The Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, while the post-war Operation Paperclip brought German scientists and technicians to Wright Field, e.g., Ernst R. G. Eckert (most of the scientists eventually went to work in the various Wright Field labs.) Project Sign ( Project Grudge in 1949, Project Blue Book in March 1952) was WPAFB's T-2 Intelligence investigations of unidentified flying objects (UFO) reports that began in July 1947. In 1951,

1120-560: The President of Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Franjo Tuđman , the President of Croatia ; and Slobodan Milošević , the President of Serbia , arrived at Wright-Patterson AFB to commence negotiations to end the Bosnian War , an ethnic conflict that by 1995 was between the Bosnia and Herzegovina's Bosniaks and the Croats (who had put aside their differences) on one side versus Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serbs on

1176-592: The Robot Blitz , Wright Field fired a reconstructed German pulse-jet engine (an entire V-1 flying bomb was " reversed engineered " [ sic ] by 8 September at Republic Aviation .) The first German and Japanese aircraft arrived in 1943, and captured equipment soon filled six buildings, a large outdoor storage area, and part of a flight-line hangar for Technical Data Lab study (TDL closed its Army Aeronautical Museum). The World War II Operation Lusty returned 86 German aircraft to Wright Field for study, e.g.,

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1232-770: The Wright Flyer III . Their flight exhibition company and the Wright Company School of Aviation returned 1910–1916 to use the flying field. World War I transfers of land that later became WPAFB include 2,075-acre (8.40 km ) (including the Huffman Prairie Flying Field ) along the Mad River leased to the Army by the Miami Conservancy District , the adjacent 40 acres (160,000 m ) purchased by

1288-660: The "Dayton Peace Accords" held at WPAFB created the " Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina " signed in Paris on 14 December. Huffman Prairie was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and named part of the 1992 Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park . The West Ramp facility switched from the 4950th Test Wing to AFRC's 445th Airlift Wing with C-17 Globemaster III transports. The permanent party work force at WPAFB as of 30 September 2005, numbered 5,517 military and 8,102 civilian. In 1995, Alija Izetbegović ,

1344-724: The 1965–77 Celestial Guidance Research Site.) WPAFB also had an Army Air Defense Command Post for nearby Project Nike surface-to-air missile sites of the Cincinnati-Dayton Defense Area were at Wilmington (CD-27, 39°24′03″N 083°52′54″W  /  39.40083°N 83.88167°W  / 39.40083; -83.88167 ); Felicity (CD-46, 38°50′37″N 084°08′33″W  /  38.84361°N 84.14250°W  / 38.84361; -84.14250 ); Dillsboro (CD-63), and Oxford (CD-78, 39°33′30″N 084°47′31″W  /  39.55833°N 84.79194°W  / 39.55833; -84.79194 ). The AADCP activated in

1400-692: The Army from the District for the Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot , and a 254-acre (1.03 km ) complex for McCook Field just north of downtown Dayton between Keowee Street and the Great Miami River. In 1918, Wilbur Wright Field agreed to let McCook Field use hangar and shop space as well as its enlisted mechanics to assemble and maintain airplanes and engines under the direction of Chief of Air Service Mason Patrick . After World War I , 347 German aircraft were brought to

1456-519: The Brick Quarters (including the command headquarters in Building 10262) at the south end of Patterson Field along Route 4 was administratively reassigned from Patterson Field to Wright Field. To avoid confusing the two areas of Wright Field, the south end of the former Patterson Field portion was designated "Area A", the original Wright Field became "Area B", and the north end of Patterson Field, including

1512-618: The Economic Development Corporation of Oakland, chairman of the Oakland Council for Economic Development, and a board member of United Way of the Bay Area . Shetterly became a trustee of Mills College in 1979 and served as chairman of the board from 1980 to 1986. A scholarship at the college is named for him. Shetterly and his wife, Phyllis, had three sons, one of whom is the artist Robert Shetterly . His granddaughter

1568-581: The Headquarters, 5th Division Air Service (redesignated 5th Division Aviation in 1928), and its 88th Observation Squadron and 7th Photo Section. New facilities were built 1925–27 on the portion of Wright Field west of Huffman Dam to house all of the McCook Field functions being relocated. Wright Field was "formally dedicated" on 12 October 1927 when "the Materiel Division moved from McCook Field to

1624-737: The July 1992 merging of WPAFB labs , the base's Wright Laboratory included a Flight Dynamics Directorate. Superfund sites (39 initial areas) of WPAFB were found to be contaminated with chlorinated volatile organic compounds and benzene compounds (soils and groundwater), and an EPA/USAF Federal Facilities Agreement was signed in 1981 for remediation and continued investigation (the Installation Restoration Program for WPAFB identified 65 areas, including 13 landfills, 12 earth fill disposal zones, 9 fuel or chemical spill sites, 6 coal storage piles, 5 fire-training areas, 4 chemical burial sites, and 2 underground storage tanks). In November 1995,

1680-645: The Space Force's National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC) are also garrisoned there and are the Intelligence Community's primary organizations for strategic air and space threat analysis. The base's origin begins with the establishment of Wilbur Wright Field on 22 May 1917 and McCook Field in November 1917, both established by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps as World War I installations. McCook

1736-592: The U.S. Air Force Museum. The 88th Air Base Wing consists of more than 5,000 officers, enlisted Air Force, civilian and contractor employees responsible for three primary mission areas: operating the installation; deploying expeditionary Airmen in support of the Global War on Terrorism; and defending the base and its people. 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

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1792-737: The United States—some were incorporated into the Army Aeronautical Museum (in 1923 the Engineering Division at McCook Field "first collected technical artifacts for preservation"). The training school at Wilbur Wright Field was discontinued. Wilbur Wright Field and the depot merged after World War I to form the Fairfield Air Depot. The Patterson family formed the Dayton Air Service Committee, Inc which held

1848-524: The World War II drawdown by merging Wright Field, Patterson Field, Dayton Army Air Field, and—acquired by Wright Field for 1942 glider testing—Clinton Army Air Field. The Jamestown Radar Annex became a leased installation of the Technical Base in 1946, and the "custodial units at Dayton and Clinton County AAFlds were discontinued in 1946". An 8000-foot concrete runway with 1000-foot runoffs at each end

1904-600: The base is a census-designated place (CDP), with a resident population of 1,821 at the 2010 census . Prehistoric Indian mounds of the Adena culture at Wright-Patterson are along P Street and, at the Wright Brothers Memorial, a hilltop mound group . Aircraft operations on land now part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base began in 1904–1905 when Wilbur and Orville Wright used an 84-acre (340,000 m ) plot of Huffman Prairie for experimental test flights with

1960-478: The base proper is the National Museum of the United States Air Force . The oldest and largest military aircraft museum in the world, it houses such aircraft as the only XB-70 Valkyrie in existence, an F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter , and the World War II B-17 bomber , Memphis Belle . Wright-Patterson AFB is "one of the largest, most diverse, and organizationally complex bases in the Air Force" with

2016-461: The central core of Patterson Field and developed almost self-sufficient community status. (Wood City was acquired in 1924 as part of the original donation of land to the government but was used primarily as just a radio range until World War II. Skyway Park was acquired in 1943.) They supported the vast numbers of recruits who enlisted and were trained at the two fields as well as thousands of civilian laborers, especially single women recruited to work at

2072-475: The company was divested from Procter & Gamble in 1969. At the time that Clorox became independent, bleach was the company's only product. Shetterly immediately launched an effort to expand and diversify the company's portfolio, adding, among other brands, Liquid-Plumr and Clorox 2 in 1969, Formula 409 in 1970, Litter Green in 1971, Hidden Valley Ranch in 1972, and Kingsford in 1973. However, most of Shetterly's acquisitions ultimately failed to realize

2128-477: The corporate Administrative Committee. In 1965, he took over the management of Clorox, which was then a subsidiary that Procter & Gamble had acquired. Two years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Procter & Gamble's acquisition violated antitrust law and Clorox had to be spun off as an independent company. Shetterly was elevated to the company's chief executive in 1968, and was retained in that role when

2184-499: The depot. Skyway Park was demolished after the war. Wood City was eventually transformed into Kittyhawk Center, the base's modern commercial and recreation center. In the fall of 1942, the first twelve "Air Force" officers to receive ATI field collection training were assigned to Wright Field for training in the technical aspects of "crash" intelligence (RAF Squadron Leader Colley identified how to obtain information from equipment marking plates and squadron markings. In July 1944 during

2240-592: The final selection of the Mercury astronauts were started" at the Aerospace Medical Laboratory (Wright-Patt test pilots Neil Armstrong and Ed White became NASA astronauts.) From 6 March 1950 to 1 December 1951, Clinton County Air Force Base was assigned as a sub-base of WPAFB, and from 1950 to 1955, Wright-Patt had two Central Air Defense Force fighter-interceptor squadrons (1 from 1955 to 1960). In 1954, 188 hectares (465 acres) of land adjacent to

2296-767: The flying field, "Area C." In February 1940 at Wright Field, the Army Air Corps established the Technical Data Branch (Technical Data Section in July 1941, Technical Data Laboratory in 1942). After Air Corps Ferrying Command was established on 29 May 1941, on 21 June an installation point of the command opened at Patterson Field. The Flight Test Training unit of Air Technical Command was established at Wright Field on 9 September 1944 (moved to Patterson Field in 1946, Edwards AFB on 4 February 1951). Two densely populated housing and service areas across Highway 444, Wood City and Skyway Park, were geographically separated from

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2352-470: The musician Prince , the San Francisco Foundation , and others. Robert Shetterly (businessman) Robert B. Shetterly (1915 – 1997) was an American businessman and philanthropist, known for serving as chairman and chief executive officer of The Clorox Company . Under Shetterly's leadership, Clorox grew from a small, single-product subsidiary of Procter & Gamble into

2408-487: The new site" At the time of the dedication expenditures of approximately $ 5 million had been involved in the new facility after 18 months work, with the total amount expected to rise to between $ 7 and $ 8 million. The ceremonies included the John L. Mitchell Trophy Race (won by Lt. I. A. Woodring of the 1st Pursuit Group—Speed: 158.968 mph) and Orville Wright raising the flag over the new engineering center. On 1 July 1931,

2464-541: The other side. American diplomat Richard Holbrooke led the negotiations. Eventually an agreement was made to have Bosnia and Herzegovina have two internal entities, a Bosniak-Croat federation known as the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and a Serb territory known as Republika Srpska . In response to the COVID-19 pandemic , the base sent airmen from the 88th Medical Group to Detroit for two months, where they set up

2520-522: The portion of Wright Field east of Huffman Dam (land known today as Areas A and C of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base which included the Fairfield Air Depot and the Huffman Prairie Flying Field) was redesignated "Patterson Field" in honor of Lieutenant Frank Stuart Patterson . Lt. Patterson was the son of Frank J. Patterson, co-founder of National Cash Register . Shortly before the end of WW1, 1Lt Patterson and observer 2Lt LeRoy Swan, both of

2576-744: The program had a 96% college graduation rate among alumni. Education Empowerment is for students ages 17.5 and up who have not completed high school. The program prepares students to take the High School Equivalency Test (HiSET, previously known as the GED ). EOYDC receives some government funding, while most funding comes from private grants and donors, and some from corporate grants and individuals. The largest donors include: U.S. Bank , Clorox Company Foundation , Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation, SD Bechtel Jr. Foundation , Northern California Community Loan Fund, Lexus , SouthWest Airlines , Apple ,

2632-566: The rest of the war at Patterson Field in Dayton, Ohio , where he worked under Robert McNamara . He rejoined Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati after the war and was given responsibility for the marketing of Tide . In 1952, Shetterly was named the manager of a new brand promotion division at Procter & Gamble. By 1961, he was named manager of the Food Products Division and a member of

2688-703: The risks faced by youth, increasing protection. EOYDC tries to fulfill this mission by offering educational, cultural, artistic expression and recreation programs. The four core programs of EOYDC are art , education , jobs , and wellness . These departments are structured to encourage self-sufficiency and responsibility. Of primary concern at the EOYDC is teaching youth to embrace their cultures and to live and work responsibly and cooperatively with other communities. EOYDC offers three education programs: After School Leadership Academy , Pathway to College and Career , and Education Empowerment . The After School Leadership Academy

2744-513: The spring of 1960 and moved to Wilmington—with BIRDIE CCCS —by 1965 ( closed March 1971 ). Wilkins Air Force Station was a 1961–8 Air Defense Command station of Wright-Patt, and Gentile Air Force Station (later the Gentile Defense Electronics Supply Center) was assigned to the base on 1 July 1962. In December 1975, Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft transferred to the 4950th Test Wing at WPAFB. Following

2800-501: The war's peak. Wright Field grew from approximately 30 buildings to a 2,064-acre (8.35 km ) facility with some 300 buildings and the Air Corps' first modern paved runways. The original part of the field became saturated with office and laboratory buildings and test facilities. The Hilltop area was acquired from private landowners in 1943–1944 to provide troop housing and services. The portion of Patterson Field from Huffman Dam through

2856-414: Was a detached installation of Wright-Patt. The NORAD Manual Air Defense Control Center for 58th Air Division interceptors was at Wright-Patterson AFB by 1958, and Brookfield Air Force Station near the Pennsylvania state line became operational as an April 1952 – January 1963 sub-base of WPAFB. The 1954–79 "Wright-Patterson Communications Facility #4" was at Yellow Springs, Ohio (which also had

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2912-485: Was at WPAFB from 1 January 1950 to 14 November 1950, followed by the Air Research and Development Command from 16 November 1950 to 24 June 1951 (began move to Baltimore on 11 May 1951). By 1952 the WPAFB headquarters of the Wright Air Development Center (WADC) included a Plans and Operations Department (WOO) and Divisions for Aeronautics (WCN), Flight Test (WCT), Research (WCR), Weapons Components (WCE), Weapons Systems (WCS). On 15 February, WADC medical examinations "for

2968-409: Was built 1946–1947 in Area C to accommodate very heavy bombers, initially referred to locally as the " B-36 runway". The 1947 All-Altitude Speed Course at Vandalia became a detached installation of the Technical Base. After the USAF was created in September 1947, Morris' base headquarters was redesignated Headquarters, Air Force Technical Base , on 15 December 1947. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

3024-478: Was built between August 1958 and July 1960. The 4043rd Strategic Wing began KC-135 Stratotanker operations in February 1960 and B-52 Stratofortress operations in June 1960. On 1 July 1963, the wing was re-designated the 17th Bombardment Wing (Heavy) and continued its mission under this unit until 7 July 1975, when the last of its 11 B-52s was transferred to Beale Air Force Base , California. From 1957 – 1962 , WADC's Hurricane Supersonic Research Site in Utah

3080-489: Was redesignated from the Air Force Technical Base on 13 January 1948 —the former Wright Field Areas A and B remained, while Patterson Field became "Area C" and Skyway Park became "Area D" of the installation. In 1951 all locally based flying activities were moved to the Area B flight line. The 1948 All-Altitude Speed Course, later the Missile Tracking Annex, at Sulphur Grove, Ohio became a detached installation of Wright-Patt. Headquarters, Air Engineering Development Division,

3136-425: Was used as a testing field and for aviation experiments. Wright was used as a flying field (renamed Patterson Field in 1931); Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot; armorers' school, and a temporary storage depot. McCook's functions were transferred to Wright Field when it was closed in October 1927. Wright-Patterson AFB was established in 1948 as a merger of Patterson and Wright Fields. In 1995, negotiations to end

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