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  • Women's roles evolved - Women make an impact on military history

    Within the time span it took for women in television to transform from the female stereotypes portrayed on "I Love Lucy" to the more modern, late-century version found on "Murphy Brown," women in the U.S. Air Force were making strides that far outpaced their Hollywood counterparts.By the end of

  • Fitness centers offer different ways to sweat

    The Maxwell and Gunter fitness and sports centers offer programs and equipment to meet the base populace's exercise needs. The centers conduct classes about how to use exercise bikes, steppers, treadmills and elliptical trainers, and conditioning and flexibility programs to demonstrate pre- and

  • Combined command post gains recognition

    The Maxwell Command Post provides a number of critical services to the base, from emergency response and leadership tracking to monitoring of flight operations and alert systems. It also leads the way in active-reserve cooperation through combining personnel from the 908th Airlift Wing and the 42nd

  • FRIC taps into QR codes

    The Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center has embraced the 21st century in several ways. For smartphone-using patrons, the center is disseminating information with Quick Response codes, or QR codes, the distinctive square codes made of black patterns on a white background that keep popping

  • Registration open for AFITC

    The Air Force premier information technology conference is slated for August, and online registration is under way.The Air Force Information Technology Conference 2012 is scheduled Aug. 27 - 29 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa Convention Center in downtown Montgomery. The theme for this

  • Tour of the world: Festival celebrates international culture

    The Air Force's Air Command and Staff College held its annual building partnership event, International Culture Day, here, March 17. The "capstone" event featured 75 international officers from 68 countries sharing their culture with more than 1,500 attendees. "The ACSC International Officer