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  • Maxwell accesses free eBooks

    Reading, checking out and even waiting in line for library books at the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center, or FRIC, can all be done virtually with the use of eBooks. Carrie Cook, electronic services librarian, gave a presentation Oct. 10 on how those at Maxwell can access the library's

  • Flyers defeat Keesler 74-68

    The Maxwell Flyers men's varsity basketball team won its second game of the season, beating the Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., team 74-68 Saturday.Defense was the call for the team as stingy man-to-man pressure forced Keesler into turnovers, creating fast-break opportunities and easy buckets.In the

  • 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

  • In case of emergency - Multiple means of notification

    In emergency situations, the Air Education and Training Command aims to use the latest technology to reach base personnel through multiple means as quickly as possible. The AtHoc Emergency Mass Notification System allows command posts to notify the installation of weather warnings and dangerous

  • Raising awareness about domestic violence

    When punches are thrown, feelings are bruised and the family is crushed, violence within the home becomes a sobering subject. Domestic violence has the power to seep into any household within the Maxwell community, according to Maxwell's Family Advocacy Officer Beverly Lesyea.Family advocacy, which

  • Air Force, Maxwell Honor Guard members spend a week training

    Recently, the Air Force Honor Guard team spent 10 days training the Maxwell Honor Guard ceremonial procedures from changes of command to military funerals.The Air Force team, based at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington D.C., travels regularly to provide base level members specialized training

  • Turbulence

    A Gunter sergeant became an unlikely hero Sept. 9 during a flight from Atlanta to San Antonio. Master Sgt. Shannon McBee, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center aero medical evacuation electronic health records project manager, boarded the flight hours before traveling for a temporary duty

  • Survivors share their stories

    You wouldn't have guessed from the hustle manager Aloys Ingram displays in the Drug Demand Reduction office that taking a shower or getting dressed once exasperated all of her strength. She is a survivor. She wears the badge of conquering breast cancer.The Federal Women's Program and the Federally

  • Preparing for 2013 CUI

    Maxwell has a chance to strut its stuff as it prepares for a consolidated unit inspection Sept. 9-16, 2013, which will test how well everyone on Maxwell follows Air Force instructions."Inspectors will be looking at everything. That's where the pressure comes from, but that's where the pleasure comes

  • SNCOA honors Tuskegee Airman

    Blasting down German fighters from the air, retired Lt. Col. Herbert "Gene" E. Carter and the infamous Red Tail squadron members of the Tuskegee Airmen not only dismissed the myth that African-Americans could not fly, they broke the barriers of discrimination within the United States society and