Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Totally Explained

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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Greene and Montgomery counties, eight miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Dayton, Ohio, United States. Part of the base is located within 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-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 the U.S. Air Force Museum.
It is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, which flies the C-5 Galaxy heavy airlifter, and it's the headquarters of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The entire base was a census-designated place at the 2000 census, although statistical data has since included the portion in Montgomery County in the city of Riverside. As of the 2000 census, the base had a resident population of 6,656. The permanent party work force at WPAFB as of September 30, 2005, numbered 5,517 military and 8,102 civilian.
Wright-Patterson is the host of the annual United States Air Force Marathon which occurs the weekend closest to the Air Force's anniversary.

Units located at Wright-Patterson AFB

88th Security Forces Squadron

77th Aeronautical Systems Wing

88th Air Base Wing

National Air and Space Intelligence Center

303d Aeronautical Systems Wing

312th Aeronautical Systems Wing

326th Aeronautical Systems Wing

445th Airlift Wing

478th Aeronautical Systems Wing

516th Aeronautical Systems Wing

Aeronautical Systems Center

Air Force Institute of Technology

Air Force Research Laboratory, formerly known as Wright Labs

Geography

Wright-Patterson AFB is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the U.S. Air Force base has a total area of 30.5 km² (11.8 sq mi). 30.3 km² (11.7 sq mi) of it's land and 0.2 km² (0.1 sq mi) of it (0.76%) is water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 6,656 people, 1,754 households, and 1,704 families residing in base housing. The population density was 219.8/km² (569.2/sq mi). There are 2,096 housing units at an average density of 69.2/km² (179.2/sq mi). The racial makeup of the base's resident population at the time of the census was 76.11% White, 15.25% Black or African American, 0.45% Native American, 2.30% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 2.09% from other races, and 3.68% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.45% of the population.
   There were 1,754 households out of which 78.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 89.0% were married couples living together, 6.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 2.8% were non-families. 2.6% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.60 and the average family size was 3.64.
   Among base residents in 2000, the population is distributed with 42.5% under the age of 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 41.5% from 25 to 44, 4.2% from 45 to 64, and 0.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 23 years. For every 100 females there were 105.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 104.1 males.
   The median income for a household in the U.S. Air Force base is $43,342, and the median income for a family was $43,092. Males had a median income of $30,888 versus $21,044 for females. The per capita income for the U.S. Air Force base is $15,341. About 1.6% of families and 1.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.4% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
   As of September 30, 2005, Wright-Patterson had base housing amounting to 2,012 single-family units, 300 units for unaccompanied enlisted personnel, and 455 visitor or temporary living units.

Dayton Agreement

The base is also notable for being the site of the Dayton Agreement, also known as the Dayton Accords, the peace agreement that put an end to the three and a half years of Bosnian war, one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

HQ AFMC-GCCS

Wright-Patt is the home of AFMC-GCCS (Global Command and Control System). A system designed for crisis action planning and that supports multiple secure communication protocols.

Trivia

In 1994, Wright Patterson Air Force Base research laboratories sought $7.5 million to develop a weapon known as "The Gay Bomb", a hormone bomb intended to inflict homosexuality upon enemies in the hopes that they'd be so attracted to one another that they'd be unable to fight.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was recently featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters on the SciFi channel. The episode investigated Building 70 and the Arnold House. They were reported to have investigated Building 219 as well, but this building wasn't shown.

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