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  • Mental fortitude: the fire within

    As I sat watching a pre-season National Basketball Association game, I found myself pondering the 2011 playoffs. I'm still flabbergasted that the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat. Turning to my husband, the self -roclaimed basketball aficionado, I asked what happened. Didn't Miami have the

  • Naming those lost in Vietnam War

    As part of a national initiative to honor Vietnam veterans, the Maxwell community and private organizations are reading the names of fallen Vietnamservice members from Alabama.The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund requested communities nationwide to read the names of fallen service members from their

  • AU honorary degree for Skelton

    Conferring one of Air University's greatest honors, Lt. Gen. David Fadok, Air University commander and president, awarded retired U.S. House Representative Isaac "Ike" Skelton IV with the "honoris causa" Doctorate of Law for his contributions to government and military education Nov. 5 in the

  • Air Force senior leaders approve service doctrine restructuring

    Officials at the LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. announce that by next fall, Air Force doctrine will be restructured, streamlined and accessible to anyone with an e-reader, smartphone or tablet.Dubbed "Doctrine Next," the initiative overhauls

  • AWC students share culture with international officer classmates

    American students at Air War College held a "Taste of America" event Saturday, displaying American food and culture for 150 international officers and families attending classes at the Air University. The annual event, held in the Civil Air Patrol hangar, offered food samplings from eight regions

  • Air University instructor wins Emmy

    An Air Force Officer Training School instructor from the Iowa Air National Guard has won an Emmy for videography in Afghanistan.Captain Peter Shinn was a key part of the team that put together Iowa Soldiers Remember Afghanistan, which aired on Iowa Public Television on Veterans Day in 2011. The

  • Conference brings cyber policies, solutions to Maxwell

    The Air Force Research Institute held its second annual cyber power conference Oct. 10-11 at Maxwell's Officer Training School, creating a forum where policy makers and practitioners could look at ways to organize a unified response to cyberattacks. Cyber Power: The Quest Toward a Common Ground

  • Kinds of leaders

    Retired Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin J. Butler is one of my heroes. As a young officer during World War II, Butler led soldiers in combat in both the North African and Italian campaigns. By March 1945, he achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star,

  • Conference brings cyber policies, solutions to Maxwell

    The Air Force Research Institute held its second annual cyber power conference Oct. 10-11 at Maxwell's Officer Training School, creating a forum where policy makers and practitioners could look at ways to organize a unified response to cyberattacks. Cyber Power: The Quest Toward a Common Ground

  • ACSC team tops in mud run

    A little mud wasn't about to slow down the students of the Air Command and Staff College coming off a win at Montgomery's dragon boat race in August. As they braved the elements and fought their way through ravines, creeks and woods, the ACSC Division 4 Flight 37 team proved victorious in