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  • Base goes to 24-hour ops to load, ‘deploy’ 908th Airlift Wing

    Starting at noon on Saturday, members of the 42nd Air Base Wing went to 24-hour operations until Monday night, exercising the Wing's ability to deploy one of its largest mission partners - the 908th Airlift Wing. In a dress rehearsal for its December Operational Readiness Inspection, the 908th

  • CFC kicks off with base-wide celebration

    Before a crowd of more than 150 base members and employees and community federal employees, the Heart of Alabama Combined Federal Campaign kicked off its 2009 campaign at the Maxwell Officers' Club, on Monday. According to the organization's Web site, the mission of CFC is to promote and support

  • Civil Air Patrol pilots to fly ‘Surrogate Predators’

    With the conversion of a Civil Air Patrol plane into a "Surrogate Predator," the U.S. Air Force is relying on its auxiliary in a most imaginative way. "We're using a manned aircraft to simulate an unmanned aircraft," said CAP-U.S. Air Force Commander Col. Bill Ward, explaining that a sophisticated

  • First enlisted-to-officer air liaison officers receive Air Force commissions

    The Air Force's newest officer career field welcomed its first five former Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) Airmen after they received their Air Force commissions Sept. 9 from Officer Training School here. Effective Aug. 1 the Air Force dedicated Air Liaison Officer (ALO) as a specific officer

  • Maxwell to undergo DISA Enhanced Compliance Validation

    Maxwell will undergo a Defense Information Systems Agency Enhanced Compliance Validation, or ECV, network inspection Sept. 28 through Oct. 2. "The ECV is very similar to an Operational Readiness Inspection, or a Nuclear Surety Inspection, of our secure and non-secure networks," said Major Gerald

  • Defense Department to start H1N1 flu vaccinations

    All military personnel will be vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, and the vaccine will be available to all military family members who want it, a Defense Department health affairs official said Sept. 2. The H1N1 vaccination program will begin in early October, said Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Wayne

  • Former Air University commander passes away

    A former Air University commander, who was instrumental in establishing the Senior NCO Academy, has passed away. Lt. Gen. Alvan C. Gillem II was the 12th commander of Air University serving here from Aug. 1970 to Nov. 1973. He was 92 at the time of his death Sept. 3. George Cully, Air University