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  • CFC campaign celebrates success

    The Heart of Alabama Combined Federal Campaign contributors, leadership and organizers, as well as representatives from seven participating charities were encouraged to toot their own horns Dec. 9. Noise makers reminiscent of New Year's Eve were placed at each place setting in the Maxwell Club

  • CI ratings: AU 'excellent,' wing 'sat'

    After months of hard work, Maxwell celebrated the end of the Air Education and Training Command compliance inspection with noisemakers, horns and hamburgers on Monday.Cowbells, whistles and sirens filled Polifka Auditorium when the Air University learned it had earned an "excellent" rating."This is

  • The persistence of memory

    59 bodies passed in front of me over the span of six months. All were enclosed within aluminum transfer cases, all were draped with immaculate and heavily starched star-spangled banners, and all passed by under the salutes of those who trod across a few acres of noisy concrete to pay their respects.

  • New commander takes helm of LeMay Center

    Major Gen. Thomas Andersen took command of the Curtis E. LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education July 28, succeeding Maj. Gen. David Fadok, who later this month will be taking command of Air University from Lt. Gen. Allen Peck.During the LeMay Center change-of-command ceremony, Peck

  • Joint war game takes students to the brink

    Using the theme "World on the Brink," students from five military senior-level colleges unite at Maxwell to train the way they fight. The 28th annual Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Exercise, or JLASS-EX, war game kicks off today at the LeMay Center's Air Force Doctrine Development and Education's

  • AFAF campaign continues through May 4

    The Air Force Assistance Fund makes contributing easy through www.afassistancefund.org. People can now log onto the website, fill out the form online, print it and submit to their organization's point of contact. "There are a lot of folks who want to donate," said. Capt. Ian Coleman, the 42nd

  • Airman hit the floor for EHH

    For many Maxwell-Gunter Airmen, Feb. 18 was an up-and-down day as they taxed their arms and abs, and panted and grunted at a push-up and sit-up-athon at Maxwell fitness center.Participants attempted to do as many pushups and/or situps as possible in a 10-minute period in support of the Air Force

  • 100th anniversary of Wright brothers' school honored with Dining Out

    Saying no state has played a more important role in aviation than Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley opened his remarks Oct. 15 to attendees of a Dining Out held by Air University and the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce at Wynlakes Country Club. "I can very easily contend that when it comes to aviation, no

  • Cyberspace Operations Doctrine: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

    The LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education approved and published the newly developed Air Force Doctrine Document (AFDD) 3-12, Cyberspace Operations.Maj. Gen. David S. Fadok, Commander, LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education, said cyberspace operations are critical to

  • WWII bomber group presents documents

    Members of World War II's 504th Bomber Group visited Maxwell Air Force Base, Gunter Annex during their annual reunion tour last week. On their agenda was donating documents about the group's accomplishments during the war to the Air Force Historical Research Agency.The group, consisting of B-29