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  • Alcohol Awareness Month focuses on abuse

    When many people think of alcohol abusers, they picture teenagers sneaking drinks before high school football games or at unsupervised parties. However, alcohol abuse is prevalent within many demographic groups in the United States. People who abuse alcohol can include the following; young military

  • Wargame students plan for 'World on the Brink'

    Using the theme, "World on the Brink," students from five military Senior Level Colleges unite at Maxwell Air Force Base to train the way they fight. The 26th annual Joint Land, Aerospace and Sea Simulation, or JLASS, wargame kicks off today at the Lemay Center's Air Force Doctrine Development and

  • SARC says one sexual assault is one too many

    "If there's one sexual assault, then it's one too many," said LaNesa Howard, Sexual Assault Response Coordinator, or SARC, for Maxwell and Gunter. Sexual assault is a crime punishable by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Sexual assault is defined as intentional sexual contact, characterized by

  • Colonel Dent, Mr. Adams win AETC legal awards

    Col. Joseph F. Dent and Mr. Bryan C. Adams have been recognized by the Air Education and Training Command in the 2008 Judge Advocate General Awards. Colonel Dent, Air University Staff Judge Advocate, received the Outstanding Senior Attorney Award or the Reichart Award. This award is presented by the

  • Pinnacle opens renovated housing at Gunter

    As part of phase-one of the Maxwell-Gunter housing renovations, Pinnacle-Hunt Communities held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for 16 renovated homes on Sneed and Fisher Roads at Gunter. This phase of the project took about three and a half months to complete and resulted in houses of increased

  • BOV returns to Air University

    The Air University Board of Visitors is meeting for the first time this year at Maxwell, and there are some new faces among the group. The board meets several times each year at Maxwell, the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and other locations as needed and

  • Returning SFS deployers reflect on time spent abroad

    "Pearl Harbor," "Saving Private Ryan," "Black Hawk Down," and even movies like "Iron Man" depict the way that Hollywood perceives deployed life. And while some events described in these movies are based on true events and circumstances, Hollywood is never 100 percent accurate. One might be left

  • Coast Guard's top officer highlights service ties with Air Force

    The top Coast Guard officer said the Air Force and the Coast Guard have more in common than one might think. Admiral Thad Allen, the Coast Guard's commandant, told this to Air War College students here April 9, during a speech about homeland security. The bedrock of the relationship between the two