Military

The Airmen with the 178th Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard and their families participated in a Call to Duty Ceremony Sunday at the Springfield National Guard Base. The airmen are deploying in support of the Air Force Central Command to provide tactical command and control capabilities. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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Ohio Air National Guard general nominated for second star

Buffalo Wild Wings to offer free wings to veterans and active duty military on Veterans Day. CONTRIBUTED

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Veterans Day 2024: Where to get free meals

In honor of Veterans Day, the Supreme Court of Ohio unveiled a new exhibit dedicated to the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen. The exhibit, housed in the Visitor Education Center, features five original oil portraits of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots in the U.S. military during World War II. CONTRIBUTED

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Vandalia company creates Supreme Court’s new art exhibits honoring military justices...

Veterans salute as the American flag is raised Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 during a 9/11 Memorial Service at Freedom Grove in Urbana. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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Area veterans inducted into Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame

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Local Veterans Affairs serves record number of veterans in 2024

The 4-3 decision released Friday fond the Ohioans for Concealed Carry and Buckeye Firearms Foundation had suffered no harm in a case the justices heard despite that the Columbus City Council had repealed its ordinance a year ago, telling the court that made the case moot. DORAL CHENOWETH III / THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Former Air Force JAG lawyer suspended after alcohol-fueled violent assaults

$Crewmembers of a C-17 Globemaster III load dummies onto the aircraft during a mock medical evacuation drill at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Wednesday, October 16, 2024. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF$

Reporter, photographer fly along with WPAFB’s 445th Airlift Wing

$Maj. Trevor Tomlin, left, gestures inside the cockpit of a C-17 Globemaster III flying 27,000 feet in altitude Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. To Tomlin's right is Lt. Col. Keith Buddelmeyer. Both men are pilots with the 445th Airlift Wing based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The wing flew 1,240 sorties in fiscal year 2024. MARSHALL GORBY \STAFF$

‘What we signed up for’: Wright-Patt’s sole flying mission ready to defend in peacetime...

A crew from Sinclair operates a PIVOTAL Blackfly UAV as it takes off at Springfield Beckley Airport Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. BILL LACKEY/STAFF

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Sinclair turns drones into bachelor’s degrees and a multimillion-dollar business

$A replica of a Wright B Flyer flies over Hawthorn Hill Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

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Update: Museum investigating Wright B Flyer replica plane’s fire, hard landing

Long lines formed at the Air Force Research Lab hiring event held Tuesday October 8, 2024 at the Fairborn Holiday Inn. JIM NOELKER/STAFF

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Job fair for Air Force Research Lab draws large crowd; continues on Wednesday

Redevelopment of the downtown Dayton Arcade has benefitted from the annual PDAC process. In this photo, up-lighting for Arcade Rotunda is visible. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

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Process for prioritizing local projects for federal, state funding opens

An artist's rendering of the local facility where Joby Aviation intends to build its electric aircraft. CONTRIBUTED

Joby Aviation says Dayton production will launch early next year

$The Tecumseh High School AFJROTC did the presentation of colors Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 for the Capt. Paul Leron Hoke's marker ceremony at the school. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF$

Tecumseh hero: School honors graduate Hoke, who died in U.S. Air Force crash