Boozman visits lab at air base in Ohio

U.S. Sen. John Boozman traveled to Ohio on Friday to visit Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

The military facility, just east of Dayton, is the site of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The Republican from Rogers met with lab officials, as well as representatives of the Air Force Institute of Technology, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center.

The site was originally named after one of the Wright brothers — Wilbur Wright, who died in 1912 in Dayton — nine years after their famous flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Patterson refers to Lt. Frank S. Patterson, a pilot with the Army Air Corps, who died in 1918 during a test flight.

Boozman is co-chairman of the Senate Air Force Caucus. He was joined by the other co-chairman, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, as well as other lawmakers from Ohio, Rhode Island and Hawaii.