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Air University authors receive Blue Dart Awards

Air University commander Lt. Gen. Allen Peck spoke to this year’s Blue Dart Award winners at an award presentation May 24. The annual awards are given out to Air War College students and faculty for their opposite-the-editorial-page writings. (U.S. Air Force/Bennett Rock)

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Air University awards first doctorate

Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis, right, deputy director of public affairs at Headquarters Air Combat Command at Langley AFB, Va., is presented the Air University's first Maxwell-conferred doctorate degree Monday by Lt. Gen. David Fadok, right, as AU honorary degree recipient Tom Brokaw looks on. (Air Force photo/Melanie Rodgers Cox)

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Air University Awards Tom Brokaw Honorary Degree

Tom Brokaw speaks during a honorary degree ceremony held Monday. Lt. Gen. David Fadok, commander and president of the Air University, Dr. Bruce Murphy, vice president for academic affairs, and Dr. Jack Hawkins, chair of the AU Board of Visitors, presented Tom Brokaw with a hood and diploma recognizing his honorary Doctor of Letters degree. (Air Force photo/Donna Burnett)

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Air University Awards Tom Brokaw Honorary Degree

Tom Brokaw speaks during a honorary degree ceremony held Monday. Lt. Gen. David Fadok, commander and president of the Air University, Dr. Bruce Murphy, vice president for academic affairs, and Dr. Jack Hawkins, chair of the AU Board of Visitors, presented Tom Brokaw with a hood and diploma recognizing his honorary Doctor of Letters degree. (Air Force photo/Donna Burnett)

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Air University campus hosts open house

Gaylon McAlpine, Air Command and Staff College, Faculty Senate President, speaks with Airmen and Air University staff and faculty during the Squadron Officer College open house on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Dec. 8, 2017. The open house showcased curriculum at SOC used to create more effective leaders. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tammie Ramsouer)

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Air University campus hosts open house

Gaylon McAlpine, Air Command and Staff College, Faculty Senate President, speaks with Airmen and Air University staff and faculty during the Squadron Officer College open house on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Dec. 8, 2017. The open house showcased curriculum at SOC used to create more effective leaders. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tammie Ramsouer)

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Air University campus hosts open house

Air University staff and faculty converse during the Squadron Officer College open house on Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Dec. 8, 2017. The open house showcased curriculum at SOC used to create more effective leaders. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tammie Ramsouer)

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Air University celebrates the life of Dr. James Mowbray

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. - Air University staff, faculty, students and friends joined the family of Carl A. Spaatz, Center of Officer Education professor Dr. James Mowbray at the Maxwell Club Sept. 17, 2015 for a 'celebration of life' memorial in his honor. Mowbray, a Duke University graduate, brought his teaching experience from Auburn University of Montgomery, Troy University of Montgomery, Northrop Services Inc., and Webber College to the Air War College in 1983. Since that time, Mowbray, an avid writer, influenced thousands of Air Force commanders. Mowbray died of congestive heart failure.

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Air University Collaborates with Montgomery Partners to Assist Front Line Personnel

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Air University colonel's ancestor first to be killed

Col. Stephen Sanders, and his mother Peggy Sanders were two of the special invitees to a ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama, May 16, to honor the city's law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Sanders' great-great-great-great grandfather, Silas Goree, whose name can be seen on the memorial to the right, was Montgomery's first law enforcement officer killed while on duty. His death on January 1, 1829, came nearly 10 years after the city was incorporated. Constable Silas Goree was stabbed to death while serving a writ of debt at the location of the old Montgomery County Courthouse near where the Court Square Artisan Basin Fountain now stands. Sanders' mother lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Sanders is the vice commander of Air University's Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education. The ceremony was held to commemorate National Police Week. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexa Culbert)

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Air University Commander and President Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos welcomes Nigerian Air Force Air Commodore Ayodele Oludamilola Akinbuwa (left) and Air Vice Marshal Micheal Nnanye Onyebashi (right) to Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 8, 2023. Onyebashi and Akinbuwa came to AU as part of the Nigerian Air Force Air Warfare Centre reciprocal visit.

Air University Commander and President Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos welcomes Nigerian Air Force Air Commodore Ayodele Oludamilola Akinbuwa (left) and Air Vice Marshal Micheal Nnanye Onyebashi (right) to Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 8, 2023. Onyebashi and Akinbuwa came to AU as part of the Nigerian Air Force Air Warfare Centre reciprocal visit. (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox/Released)

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Air University commander experiences AFROTC Field Training

Lt. Gen. James Hecker, Air University commander, talks to the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Field Training mission support staff at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Mississippi, July 13, 2021. The visit allowed Hecker to experience training for cadets and get feedback on the multi-phase encampment. (U. S. Air Force photo by Cadet Training Assistant Marissa Buckner)

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Air University commander talks education, training

Lt. Gen. Allen Peck, Air University commander, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., speaks at the graduation of Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 09-09 May 15 at the Kaye Auditorium. (U.S. Air Force photo/Melissa Duncan)

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Air University commemorates 100th Remembrance Day

Graves of Royal Air Force service members from previous conflicts on display at Maxwell’s Oakwood Cemetery Annex, Nov. 11, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. The Oakwood Cemetery Annex is the home to 78 Commonwealth airmen from the Second World War, who died while training in Alabama under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, in addition to 20 French war graves. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Charles Welty)

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Air University commemorates 100th Remembrance Day

A Royal Air Force officer salutes a wreath on display during the Remembrance Day Service, Nov. 11, 2018, at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama. Members of the Royal Air Force have hosted this ceremony numerous times in previous years to honor airmen from across the Commonwealth. Remembrance Day is commemorated on the Sunday closest to Nov. 11, across the British Commonwealth to mark the signing of the armistice ending hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which occurred 100 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Charles Welty)

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Air University commemorates 100th Remembrance Day

Col. Paul Nelson, Surgeon General’s Chair to Air University, speaks during the Remembrance Day Service, Nov. 11, 2018, at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex in Montgomery, Alabama. In addition to the U.S., members of the French, British and other Commonwealth militaries were in attendance to pay their respects for fallen service members. Remembrance Day is commemorated on the Sunday closest to Nov. 11, across the British Commonwealth to mark the signing of the armistice ending hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which occurred 100 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Charles Welty)

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Air University commemorates 100th Remembrance Day

A wreath on display at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, Nov. 11, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. French, British, American and other Commonwealth military members laid wreaths as part of the Remembrance Day Service. Remembrance Day is commemorated on the Sunday closest to Nov. 11, across the British Commonwealth to mark the signing of the armistice ending hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which occurred 100 years ago. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Charles Welty)

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Air University Director of History

Royal Air Force Group Captain Shaun Harvey and French Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Fabrice Imbo open the wreath-laying ceremony Nov. 13, 2016 at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama. In the cemetery are buried 78 British and 20 French Airmen killed in training accidents in the Southeast U.S. from June 1941 to November 1945. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Kane, Air University Director of History)

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Air University Director of History

Brig. Gen. Christopher A. Coffelt, commandant, Air War College, salutes facing the Cross of Sacrifice with French Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Fabrice Imbo and RAF Group Captain Paul Taylor Nov. 13, 2016, at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery Alabama. In the cemetery are buried 78 British and 20 French Airmen killed in training accidents in the Southeast U.S. from June 1941 to November 1945. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Robert Kane, Air University Director of History)

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Air University elective broadens SOS students’ research experience

A former student research assistant taking the Air University Advanced Research Elective at Squadron Officer School was able to make a replacement (top) for a broken part (bottom) from a C-130 aircrew seat using additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. Getting a replacement part from the manufacturer would have cost a few hundred dollars and an untold amount of time; however, the student was able to print the part in about four hours for less than a couple of dollars. (U.S. Air Force photo by Phil Berube)

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