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  • Social media access open to AETC users

    Starting this week, members of Air Education and Training Command are able to access 29 social networking websites from their government computers. Beginning May 15, users will have access to almost 85 social media sites.This change in policy stems from a Department of Defense directive published in

  • ‘Deliberately Developing Airmen’ theme for 2010 SELS

    More than 300 senior enlisted leaders from the Air Force, along with joint and international partner nation equivalents, will converge on the Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy for the annual Senior Enlisted Leader Summit Tuesday-Thursday.The summit provides senior enlisted leaders

  • Cancer registrars bring vital data to cancer fight

    While active-duty cancer patients may continue on to other bases across the globe, their association with the Maxwell 42nd Medical Group will continue for the rest of their lives through the efforts of the tumor registrar. Working behind the scenes of the war against cancer, cancer or tumor

  • Cancer support group strengthens, informs military members

    On the surface, the gathering looks like a meeting of old friends at Maxwell's Airman and Family Readiness Center, with people inquiring about vacation plans, children, exercise and what plans Uncle Sam has for them and their families. However, this group's kinship goes beyond being at the same base

  • Holocaust survivor speaks to base audience

    The number 7441 could be a telephone extension or the last four digits of a Social Security number, but for Max Steinmetz, it was his identity from June 1941 to May 1945.As a Romanian Jew during World War II, Mr. Steinmetz was a "guest" of the Nazis in several of their infamous concentration camps,

  • SOS to celebrate 60th anniversary

    Squadron Officer School leadership and personnel are inviting former SOS students and faculty to attend the SOS 60th Anniversary celebration May 6-8 at the Squadron Officer College complex."We have several fun and interesting events planned over the three-day celebration," Col. Michael Pipan, SOS

  • Joint Land, Aerospace and Sea Simulation begins at LeMay Center

    Using the theme, "World on the Brink," students from five military senior level colleges unite at Maxwell Air Force Base to train the way they fight. The 27th annual Joint Land, Aerospace and Sea Simulation, or JLASS, wargame kicks off this week at the LeMay Center's Air Force Doctrine Development

  • Leadership Development Program available soon to CGOs

    Four graduate-level, distance learning courses originally offered to a small group of active-duty Air Force captains will be available to all active-duty Air Force company grade officers May 3."The Leadership Development Program provides unique developmental opportunities for officers to pursue

  • Golden Knights recognize local heroes

    Like so many lemmings, one skydiver after another leapt out the door of an airplane March 26 over Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.Rather than a haphazard attempt at follow-the-leader, these highly trained Army personnel are the Golden Knights, renowned for their ability to fall with precision at 120

  • Firefighters stand by for air show action

    Maxwell Air Force Base firefighters stood ready to answer and respond to any incident during the "Thunder Over Alabama" air show March 27 and 28.Fire Chief Lee E. Anderson, who is charge of readiness for the base's fire department, spent months preparing his team with a series of base exercises. The