WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, July 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Jack Waid, Air Force Materiel Command History Office * * * "Air Force Materiel Command was established on 1 July 1992, and is both an old and new command, which is why it is unique and why its story is interesting. It is an old command --certainly one of the oldest in the Air Force -- because its roots go back to the earliest days of U.S. military aviation and because its heritage bel  more