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  • 2017 Innovation Challenge: AETC lauds Continuum of Learning efforts

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, TEXAS--Air Education and Training Command will announce this year’s five winners of the 2017 Innovation Challenge during the AETC Senior Leader Conference held at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., March 19-21.  Winning units will receive a monetary award to be used

  • CORONA returns to Maxwell

    The Air Force’s top leaders convened here for the annual CORONA South conference, Feb. 25 through Feb. 28, to discuss present and future issues regarding the Air Force.“This year’s CORONA was extremely successful and historic as it coincides with Maxwell’s Centennial anniversary.” said Col. Melissa

  • Barnes Center rewrites ALS curriculum

    The Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education is currently working to revise the Airman Leadership School to better prepare Airmen for future duties.Airman Leadership School is the first level of enlisted professional military education and required to become a non-commissioned officer.The new

  • T-6 operational pause lifted today

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas--Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th Air Force commander, has ordered an end to the operational pause of the T-6 Texan II fleet, with flying operations resuming Feb. 27 following the collection and analysis of operational flight test data. The pause was the result of

  • Vance T-38 instructor pilots earn Air Medals

    Two Vance instructor pilots were awarded the Air Medal by Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th Air Force commander, during a ceremony Feb. 6 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

  • AETC names top performers of 2017

    Nineteen Air Education and Training Command Airmen and civilians received AETC’s Outstanding Airman of the Year awards at a banquet in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 22. The awards honoring outstanding achievement across AETC were held in conjunction with the 2018 Air Force Association Air Warfare

  • Former slave, two-time Olympian becomes an Airman

    After enduring countless hardships and overcoming unimaginable obstacles, Airman 1st Class Guor Maker, a dental assistant currently in technical training, found his way out of war-torn South Sudan, Africa and into the U.S. nearly 20 years ago.

  • NEXRAD: Next Generation Radar impacts far and wide

    Maxwell has a unique job of maintaining a system known as Next Generation Radar or NEXRAD. The base maintains the NEXRAD system which is located about 45 minutes east of Maxwell Air Force base, and keeps it operational on a 24/7, 365 days a year. This is a Doppler Weather Radar designed to detect