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  • AFROTC cadet wins Boren Award for Arabic studies

    An Air Force ROTC cadet at the University of Oklahoma won a nationally recognized award recently for his study of Arabic languages and culture that he hopes will help him to contribute solutions to problems in the Middle East.Cadet Jeremiah Cox received a 2016 Boren Awards for International Study

  • Total-force officers take next step

    Air Force has continued its total-force officer integration, launching the Voluntary Limited Period of Active Duty program in early 2016.This program provides an opportunity for Air National Guard and Air Force Reservists to become active-duty Airmen for a period of time.For three years and one day,

  • Spouses donate $2,500 to help heal TBI, PTSD

    Maxwell Gunter Officer Spouse Club members presented a check for $2,500 to the Shepherd's Men of the Shepherd Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, during the annual MGOSC fundraiser event, the Silent Auction and Dinner, April 16, 2016, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.The Shepherd Center for Traumatic

  • CGOs enhance airpower through FLEXbility

    Once the Air Force's fledgling commissioned officers reach the rank of captain, they come to the Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education for a five-week course to develop leadership capabilities ... and play dodge ball, sort of.During the course, students learn how to create and execute

  • DoD Announces Pilot Tutor Program for Service Members

    Officials with the Department of Defense (DoD) Voluntary Education Program and the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) announced the launch of a pilot tutoring program that will provide service members with tutoring support at no cost, anytime, anywhere."If a service

  • OTS, Montgomery Police Academy exchange perspectives

    Leaders from Officer Training School and the Montgomery Police Academy exchanged perspectives during the police academy's supervisory course March 15, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama.Capt. Kris Walker, OTS chief of training, participated with the police academy course as a way to further the

  • Maxwell Airmen support Alabama State Powerlifting Championship

    Maxwell Airmen volunteered at the Alabama State Powerlifting Championships hosted by Elmore County High School March 12, 2016, at Eclectic, Alabama.There were 31 Airmen representing Gunter, Maxwell, and the 187 Fighter Wing that served as judges and score keepers for the state-wide event with 263

  • Air University students win big at national cyber policy competition

    Two teams of Air Command and Staff college students took top honors at the Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge in Washington, D.C., March 11-12.The annual event is an interactive learning experience and competition that puts students in a mock National Security Council environment to

  • AU BOV out-brief’s SECAF

    Air University Board of Visitors out briefed Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James, Jan. 28, 2016.The purpose of the meeting was to provide her independent advice and recommendations on educational, doctrinal, and research policies and activities of the Air University."This was an

  • Providing honor and pride even after death

    "It's not the dead that scares me, but rather the living," said Christine Bushby, 42d Force Support Squadron Mortuary Affairs and Readiness technician. "When a death happens, especially unexpected, the raw human emotion is hard to bear witness."Every day, people enter or leave the military even if