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  • International officers’ wives receive welcome, information during IFOP

    Peggy Funk knows what it is to be an Air Force officer's wife in a foreign country.She's lived in Germany and didn't understand the language. She's tentatively shopped for groceries in Italy, unsure of exactly what she was purchasing."I do know what it is like not being able to speak the language or

  • Maxwell launches video, audio podcasts

    Maxwell Air Force Base entered the world of portable news as it launched a series of podcasts online Monday.Podcasting, a method of publishing broadcasts via the Internet, allows users to subscribe to a feed of video and audio files, listen to them on their computer and load them on a portable media

  • ROTC summer field training shapes tomorrow's Air Force officer corps

    Air University is hosting a series of 28-day summer field training courses for about 2,400 Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps students here through Aug. 28."Summer ROTC training is rigorous training for the students and will mentally and physically prepare them for the challenges they will

  • Maxwell’s perimeter fence upgrades security

    An obvious change to Maxwell Air Force Base is the ongoing construction of the new perimeter fence.The Maxwell-Gunter Antiterrorism Officer said the new fence project was started shortly after the base acquired the Riverside Heights property in 2006 under then 42nd Air Base Wing Commander Col. Paul

  • 42nd Medical Group changes sick-call hours

    Effective Thursday, the 42nd Medical Group will change the family practice sick-call hours from 6:45 to 7:30 a.m. to 7 to 7:30 a.m. Monday-Friday, excluding holidays and down days.The change will align family practice and flight medicine sick call times, creating an easy-to-remember schedule for

  • CIA representative augments AWC staff

    An analyst from one of the nation's most secure organizations serves as an academic representative to Air University's Air War College.Christopher Keast of the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence is currently assigned to Lt. Gen. Allen Peck, Air University commander, as a

  • Enlisted Heritage Hall offers ever-growing list of exhibits

    No matter how often they come through the doors, there is almost always something new for visitors to the Enlisted Heritage Hall. Some of the newest features are videos accompanying some exhibits. The first black and white silent movie ever made about aviation shows the Wright brothers

  • Distinguished educators gain first-hand experience during Maxwell visit

    Twenty-five distinguished educators from colleges and universities around the United States and Puerto Rico completed a three-day visit to Maxwell Air Force Base on June 12.The Jeanne M. Holm Center for Officer Accession and Citizen Development provided the college and university representatives