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  • Like Airman, like son: the Harper family legacy

    Father and son, Chief Master Sgt. Michael E. Harper and Capt. Michael J. Harper, are serving their third deployment together, or fourth depending on a person's definition of deploying together.In 2004, when Captain Harper was a staff sergeant deployed to Transit Center at Manas, Kyrgyzstan, his

  • Active-duty, Reserve Airmen work together at combined command post

    Command posts serve as the central nervous system for coordinating everything from first responders to recalls. At Maxwell, the mission requires controllers to do these tasks, but in a different organizational structure. The command post at Maxwell relies on both active-duty and Reserve Airmen

  • Commander's Action Line

    Complaint:On the morning of Feb. 8, I was honked at on Maxwell Boulevard because I was following the speed limit in a school zone. For the past few months, I've noticed drivers getting more aggressive in the school zone by the post office and Holm Center. Most mornings they tailgate me, or change

  • 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

  • Bring up your fitness, join 'Club 100'

    Maxwell Air Force Base recognizes Airmen who earn a perfect score of 100 on their annual physical fitness assessment. These Airmen have improved their score from their last physical training test in order to get into Maxwell's Club 100, or have had a score of 100 previously.Name: Ashley ShirleyAge:

  • Youth centers offer new program

    The Maxwell and Gunter youth centers have started a new program to provide for social interaction activities for children age 9 to 18 after 3 p.m.The initiative, called Youth Programs After Three, or YP After 3, reflects the Air Force's goal of providing a comfortable setting and atmosphere where

  • 20 years of recognition for tree efforts

    The planting of a young crepe myrtle at Thunderbird Park by Maxwell Air Force Base and Montgomery leadership and volunteers marked Maxwell's 20th consecutive designation as a Tree City USA community in celebration of the base's Arbor Day observance Feb. 21. Alabama Forestry Commissioner Matt

  • AETC garners 4 awards at AFA Gala

    The Central Florida Chapter of the Air Force Association recognized Air Education and Training Command with four awards at the chapter's Air Force Gala banquet in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 21.Air University, AETC Technical Training Division, AETC Medical Training and Community College of the Air Force