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  • Maxwell officer's daughter finishes near top in Junior Olympic race

    Amaris Tyynismaa of Montgomery, Ala., finished 26th out of 405 runners in the 11-12 year old division at the 2013 United States of America Track and Field Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships held last month in San Antonio. The eldest daughter of Col.Mike Tyynismaa, Officer Training School deputy commandant, and his wife, Kristin, ran the
  • Capt. Robert Hammerbeck, Officer Training School Commissioned Officer Training Course flight commander, gives feedback to 1st Lt. Leah Ordinanza, a commissioned officer trainee at OTS, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Oct. 24, 2013. The Academics Instructors Course teaches flight commanders to use the feedback session to provide the trainee with constructive criticism, and suggest possible improvements as well as lauding them for their strengths. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Gregory Brook)

    AIC course empowers OTS instructors to train future leaders

    The Air Force needs leaders. It needs leaders who can make decisions at a moment's notice. There is no warning, heads up or reminder email for some situations; there is just do. The Air Force needs leaders who can do. The Academic Instructors Course, a part of the Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accessions and Citizen Development on Maxwell,

  • Rethinking footwear for runners

    With thousands of innovations marketed for runners, surprisingly, the running shoe should not be one of them, according to 18-year, U.S. Air Force team runner and five-time Air Force Half Marathon masters champion Lt. Col. (Dr.) Antonio Eppolito. He shared his running expertise during a seminar workshop hosted by Maxwell's Health and Wellness
  • Astronaut Peggy Whitson, from the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, navigates the ropes course confidence at Maxwell's Officer Training School training grounds May 23, 2013. Whitson was leading a team of six U.S. and international astronauts through leadership and teamwork training obstacle courses here to evaluate the potential for future use. (U.S. Air Force photo by Donna Burnett)

    Astronauts attend Maxwell Leadership Reaction Course

    In a collaborative training effort, a group of six American and international astronauts participated in an abbreviated version of the Air University Leadership Reaction Course here May 22-23. Designed to develop leadership skills, the LRC is a field exercise consisting of a series of obstacle course challenges that students navigate as teams
  • Tech. Sgt. Chi Yi, Military Training Instructor at Officer Training Shool here, demonstrates proper facing movements for new OTS trainees Feb 28. Yi has been an MTI for more than four years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Sandra Percival)

    OTS military training instructors help shape next generation of officers

    Dating back to September 1947, U.S. Air Force military training instructors have represented one of the most visible special-duty career fields in the service. From the original group of "Flight Marchers" to today's MTIs, the need to train new Airmen has remained constant. Today, 500 Airmen in the grades of staff sergeant through master sergeant

  • LEAP participant represents Air Force in Indonesia, helps embassy build relationships

    "If you work hard, you never know where life will take you," said Capt. Lia Radulovic during a live radio interview for Indonesian talk show "Morning Coffee" recently. These words held special resonance for Radulovic, a Language Enabled Airman Program participant who was born into poverty in Jakarta 34 years ago. Her hard work led her from
  • Technical Sgt. Leslie Cummings, the first and only female military training instructor in the Air National Guard, is also the first and only Air National Guardsman to be named the Air University Noncommissioned Officer of the Year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Christopher Stoltz)

    AU NCO of Year is Guard’s only female MTI

    The first and only female military training instructor in the Air National Guard is also the first and only Air National Guardsman to be named the Air University Noncommissioned Officer of the Year.Technical Sgt. Leslie Cummings is an MTI for the Academy of Military Science, the Air Force Officer Training School commissioning program for Air

  • POW endures 'boredom, punctuated by terror' during captivity

    It was a mission that lasted more than seven years. It was also a trap.Sent to rescue the downed pilot of an F-105D Thunderchief during the Vietnam War, retired Capt. William "Bill" Robinson, an airman first class at the time, and his three teammates navigated inside enemy lines where an ambush lay in wait and shot down their Kaman HH-43 Huskie
  • Officer Training School trainees participate in a BELPS exercise during their third week of training at Maxwell Air Force Base, Oct. 3. This exercise required trainees to move as a group without verbally communicating. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class William Blankenship)

    OTS transforms BOT course

    Beginning in January, the Air Force Officer Training School's Basic Officer Training course will be shortened by three weeks. Cutting the course from 12 weeks to nine weeks was the result of finding efficiencies in the course's scheduling processes and curriculum, said the OTS commandant. "Our staff was able to adapt its operations and curriculum
  • Captain Peter Shinn, an Officer Training School instructor, with Soldiers at Outpost Mace in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Dec. 20, 2010. Shinn won an Emmy? for videography in Afghanistan. He was part of a team that put together Iowa Soldiers Remember Afghanistan, which aired on Iowa Public Television on Veterans Day in 2011. The program won the 2012 Emmy? for best Military Program in the Upper Midwest Region. (U.S. Army photo.)

    Air University instructor wins Emmy

    An Air Force Officer Training School instructor from the Iowa Air National Guard has won an Emmy for videography in Afghanistan.Captain Peter Shinn was a key part of the team that put together Iowa Soldiers Remember Afghanistan, which aired on Iowa Public Television on Veterans Day in 2011. The program won the 2012 Emmy for best Military Program in
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