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  • Training hones base honor guard skills

    For 10 days, the Maxwell AFB Honor Guard learned to carry out their ceremonial duties with greater precision with the help of their special guests from the Air Force Honor Guard, based in Bolling AFB, D.C. They displayed the skills they learned during a full-honor military funeral demonstration as

  • Additional Duty First Sergeant Seminar provides leadership tools

    During the Additional Duty First Sergeant Seminar last week, NCOs and senior NCOs learned that the role of a first sergeant is to serve as both a leader to enlisted Airmen and an advisor to his unit's commander.Held at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy auditorium Feb. 8 -12, the event gave

  • Day Street Gate to reopen Feb. 28

    Base officials here announced the reopening date for Maxwell's Day Street Gate today.The Day Street gate, which has been closed since July 1, is scheduled to reopen to traffic on Feb. 28 at 6 a.m.The overall $1.3 million project, which was funded with stimulus money, was divided into three separate

  • Canadian delegation visits Barnes Center to further CMSAF EPME initiative

    A delegation from Canada visited the Thomas E. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education Jan. 26-29 to further an enlisted professional military education initiative between the U.S. Air Force and Canadian Defense Forces.The team, headed by Chief Petty Officer 1 Fred Singer, the non-commissioned member

  • CCAF, Air Force launch pad for astrophysicist's NASA career

    As a young teen gazing silently at the stars from a vantage point on Canada's Georgian Bay, 250 miles from his home in St. Clair, Mich., Richard Barry wondered a great deal about space and the possibilities of life on other planets. Having spent his formative years on a small farm, he never dreamed

  • 42nd Security Forces bike patrols cruise Maxwell-Gunter

    In case you've wondered who the people on bicycles with the blue pants and white shirts are, they are members of the 42nd Security Forces Squadron bike patrol."The 42nd SFS bicycle patrols were started about two months ago and are an integral part of the installation's community policing efforts.

  • AETC honors SAASS with Air Force Association award

    The School of Advanced Air and Space Studies has receieved the Air Education and Training Command's 2010 Air Force Association Aerospace Award in the Gill Robb Wilson category."We congratulate the SAASS for their selfless dedication and wish them the best of luck at the Air Force-level competition,"

  • Officer Training School celebrates 50th anniversary

    Today (February 5) Air University Holm Center's Officer Training School at Maxwell-Gunter AFB will mark the 50th anniversary of the school's opening its doors. The school has invited former OTS students, staff and their guests to attend 50th anniversary events beginning today through Feb. 7. "We