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  • Bear Exploration Center students visit Maxwell AFB for Aerospace Day

    Civil Air Patrol National Headquarters and the Montgomery Chapter 102 Air and Space Forces Association aerospace education teams have partnered with Montgomery Public School’s Bear Exploration Center to support its aerospace/STEM programs for over a decade. After a two-year pause for field trips,

  • Crucial Conversations

    The Maxwell Command Team and key civic leaders in Montgomery, Alabama, participated in a virtual Crucial  Conversations April. 11, 2022 with the discussion highlighting the strong military-community partnership and the shared growth to better serve Airmen and Guardians stationed at Maxwell.

  • Remembering Brigadier General Charles McGee

    MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala.— Brig. Gen. Charles McGee was one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen and died at 102 on Jan. 16, 2022. He joined the military at a time when becoming a pilot as an African American was inconceivable.

  • Freedom to Serve

    Seventy-six years ago, President Harry Truman was shocked at what he heard. A decorated soldier, recently returned from the war that defeated Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, was removed from a Greyhound bus, beaten until he was blind, placed in handcuffs and jailed in Batesburg, South Carolina.

  • Alabama state legislature passes Military Bill Package

    Earlier this year, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation proposed in Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth’s Military Bill Package. This set of 10 bills are specifically designed to help motivate and welcome military families to serve in the state.

  • Maxwell school opens application for 2022-2023 school year on Dec. 1

    For next school year, Department of Defense Education Activity will no longer prioritize students who live in close proximity to the installation. This means greater flexibility for military families. Parents now can apply for the pilot program prior to their arrival at Maxwell-Gunter.