School counselor offers comfort with deployed parent pillows

Colorful drawings of smiling hearts and their fathers watching television with them or eating watermelon at a family picnic were drawn Thursday by Maxwell Elementary School children who have a deployed parent. The creative outlet is one of several provided as part of the school's "Far and Away

F-22 'Shows its Stuff' at Maxwell

The pilot of an F-22 Raptor from Langley Air Force Base, Va., was happy Tuesday with a practice flight here at Maxwell. The flight was in preparation for the following day's National Security Forum aerial demonstration of the Air Force's newest jet fighter."Everything went great. It was a great

Chaplain Service Institute on target to relocate to Fort Jackson

The Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development's Chaplain Service Institute here has been bustling with activity since May 2008.And has gotten much busier lately.The institute is scheduled to relocate to Fort Jackson, S.C., by fiscal 2010 to join the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School, the

Base exercises preparation for natural disasters

With national hurricane season beginning June 1, Maxwell-Gunter Exercise Evaluation Team conducted a natural disasters exercise during the month of May, according to Gary Looney, 42nd Air Base Wing chief of Exercise Evaluation Team."It doesn't seem that long ago when we had to do it for real," Mr.

Schools announce SECAF Leadership Awards

Spaatz Center's Air War College, Air Command and Staff College and Squadron Officers' School; and the Barnes Center Senior NCO Academy have announced recipients of the Secretary of the Air Force Leadership Award.This award is given annually to the graduate who demonstrated the greatest leadership

Air War College hosts 56th National Security Forum

For the 56th consecutive year, civilians from across America ventured to Maxwell-Gunter for the National Security Forum.The forum, hosted by the Air University Spaatz Center for Officer Education's Air War College and sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force, is designed to familiarize members of

Wet and Wild

Maxwell gives local arts group peek at Air Force art collection

At the invitation of Air University Commander Lt. Gen. Allen G. Peck, the Montgomery Area Business Committee for the Arts, or MABCA, held a quarterly meeting at the Maxwell Officers' Club on May 6 to view the installation's art collection. Among those in attendance at the luncheon were 42nd Air Base