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  • 'Diamond sharp - rock solid' student describes First Sergeants Academy

    Editor's note: The following is the second of a four-part series highlighting the experiences of Master Sgt. Michael Diaz, a student at the Air Force First Sergeants Academy. The second week started a bit earlier than normal. Since we are scheduled to graduate on Thursday versus Friday, our first

  • Missoula Children's Theater 'Princess and the Pea' coming in June

    "The Princess and the Pea" play that has delighted audiences from children to adults is coming to Maxwell in June. The Missoula Children's Theater will audition, rehearse and stage this popular play with Maxwell and Gunter Community children. The play requires 60 cast members. Auditions begin June 8

  • Base pools ready to open for fun, parties

    Maxwell and Gunter pools can be reserved for parties Tuesday - Friday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., or Saturday and Sunday 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. There is a minimum of two weeks notice to request a pool party, to allow time for adequate lifeguard staffing. With the pools opening tomorrow, now would a good time

  • Winning essays earn students rides with the Civil Air Patrol

    Thanks to their winning essays on aviation, six fourth-graders from two Montgomery schools took to the skies Tuesday morning, courtesy of Maxwell's Civil Air Patrol.The students - Kaitlyn McDonald, Thomas Cauthen and Jarrod Castleberry from Dalraida Elementary and Katie Carothers, Mara Bradford and

  • School counselor offers comfort with deployed parent pillows

    Colorful drawings of smiling hearts and their fathers watching television with them or eating watermelon at a family picnic were drawn Thursday by Maxwell Elementary School children who have a deployed parent. The creative outlet is one of several provided as part of the school's "Far and Away

  • F-22 'Shows its Stuff' at Maxwell

    The pilot of an F-22 Raptor from Langley Air Force Base, Va., was happy Tuesday with a practice flight here at Maxwell. The flight was in preparation for the following day's National Security Forum aerial demonstration of the Air Force's newest jet fighter."Everything went great. It was a great

  • Chaplain Service Institute on target to relocate to Fort Jackson

    The Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development's Chaplain Service Institute here has been bustling with activity since May 2008.And has gotten much busier lately.The institute is scheduled to relocate to Fort Jackson, S.C., by fiscal 2010 to join the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, the

  • Base exercises preparation for natural disasters

    With national hurricane season beginning June 1, Maxwell-Gunter Exercise Evaluation Team conducted a natural disasters exercise during the month of May, according to Gary Looney, 42nd Air Base Wing chief of Exercise Evaluation Team."It doesn't seem that long ago when we had to do it for real," Mr.

  • Schools announce SECAF Leadership Awards

    Spaatz Center's Air War College, Air Command and Staff College and Squadron Officers' School; and the Barnes Center Senior NCO Academy have announced recipients of the Secretary of the Air Force Leadership Award.This award is given annually to the graduate who demonstrated the greatest leadership