Jolly Santa reads to youths at library

With only 12 days before Christmas, the Maxwell community library managed to track down Santa Claus with the help of Air Force technology. They brought in St. Nick for a special visit to the boys and girls on base.During his visit Tuesday, Mr. Claus participated in story time with the children,

Youths treat security forces, firefighters

In celebration of the Christmas holiday, the Gunter Youth Center conducted its annual holiday baking activity, Dec. 5.Each year, members of the Gunter Youth Center bake holiday-themed sweets such as chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies and red-and-green rice cereal treats for the 42nd Security

Airman's Attic feeds, clothes, furnishes Airmen

The motto, Airmen helping Airmen, is more than a nice saying at the Airman's Attic. It's placing food, clothes, uniforms and boots directly into the hands of a military member.Offered to enlisted Airmen with the rank of technical sergeant and below, the attic provides household goods, cooking ware,

Learning Leadership from Santa

Santa's mission is simple: spread good cheer and make people happy. Simple enough, right? Oh, if it were only so. Upon reflection, the problem statement involved with such an endeavor is daunting: multiple time zones, a narrow window of execution, extreme weather conditions, dealing with reindeer

Summit focuses on sexual assault ‘eradication’

Hundreds will attend the first-ever AFJAG Corps Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Summit, a total force conference to be hosted by the Air Force Judge Advocate General's School at Maxwell, Dec. 16-18.More than 230 staff judge advocates, senior paralegals, Air Staff and Air Force Legal Operation

Q-Matic ticket system expedites pharmacy operations

The goals of the Maxwell pharmacy are to provide safe and timely medication education and distribution to all eligible beneficiaries. We process 7,000-9,000 prescriptions weekly using the Q-Matic ticket system, which prioritizes prescription requests based on patient category. There are five options

Acting SecAF visit to Maxwell

Expeditionary course tests officer candidates

Murphy leaves legacy, begins new chapter

He joined as a Soldier and is now leaving the service for a second time as an Airman.After eight years with the Air University, Dr. Bruce T. Murphy will retire as the university's vice president of academic affairs Dec. 31.The former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel said that he thoroughly enjoyed his

MEMS robots claim grand championship

Young engineers at Maxwell Elementary/Middle School came home grand champions last month from the FIRST LEGO League regional contest using robots and will compete in the state competition Jan. 25 in Huntsville, Ala.The team of nine middle school students called "Just the RAYS (for Really Awesome