Taking care of employees is one of its top priorities, but with over one third of employees eligible to retire, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is struggling to maintain that promise. Most of those employees have their master‘s degree, whereas only 10% of residents in Ohio aged 25 and up have advanced degrees. A demographic shift is causing fewer and fewer high schoolers to graduate every year. The base will have to find solutions to the problem, meaning working with facilities outside of universities.