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  Maxwell Air Force Base - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maxwell Air Force Base (offically known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base) is a United States Air Force facility near Montgomery, Alabama.
Maxwell AFB currently hosts Air Force Officer Training School, one of the USAF commissioning sources.
As of 2005, the base is one of three which hosts ROTC summer field training encampments.
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 Encyclopedia: Maxwell Air Force Base
It is the headquarters for Air University, a major component of Air Education and Training Command and is the Air Force’s center for Professional Military Education (PME).
Air Education and Training Command recruits, trains and educates quality people to sustain the combat capability of the US Air Force.
Civil Air Patrol seal The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Maxwell-Air-Force-Base   (1319 words)

  
 United States Air Force - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Secretary of the Air Force is Dr. James G. Roche.
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force is General (Gen) John P. Jumper.
In 1941, the Army Air Corps became the U.S. Army Air Force and the GHQ Air Force was redesignated the Air Force Combat Command.
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 Maxwell Air Force Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maxwell is a familiar name to those who wear the blue uniforms of the U.S. Air Force, because one of America’s oldest Air Force bases bears that name.
Although the base still has an active runway, it is primarily a non-flying base as the home of the Air University, the Air Force’s center for professional military education.
William Calvin Maxwell was a native of Monroe County, Alabama who entered the Army in 1917 and became a military aviator.
www.clanmaxwellusa.com /mafb.htm   (293 words)

  
 Alabama Aerospace Advantages - Maxwell Air Force Base & Gunter Annex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Air University, a major command direct reporting unit headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., is a major component of Air Education and Training Command, and is the Air Force's center for professional military education.
Numerous U.S. Air Force programs and schools are located at Maxwell AFB such as Officer Training School, Squadron Officer College, School and Course, the Air Command and Staff College and the senior school in the Air Force professional military education system, the Air War College.
Air University, established in 1946, continues the proud tradition of educating tomorrow's planners and leaders, in aerospace power for the Air Force, other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, federal government civilians and many international organizations.
aerospace.state.al.us /acasi/maxwellair.htm   (1542 words)

  
 Maxwell Air Force Base Senior Officers' Quarters Historic District; Building 800; Building 836 -- Aviation: From Sand ...
Maxwell Air Force Base, historically known as Maxwell Field, is one of the earliest sites used for aviation purposes in the United States.
The Air Corps Tactical School was the first school in the world to teach the tactics and techniques of military aviation.
Maxwell Air Force Base Senior Officers' Quarters Historic District is roughly bounded by West Dr., N. Juniper and S. Juniper sts., Inner Circle, Center Dr., Sequoia and East drs.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/max.htm   (967 words)

  
 Nathan F. Twining   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nathan F. Twining succeeded Vandenberg as Air Force chief and was then named chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first airman to hold that position.
When war broke out in Europe he was assigned to the operations division on the Air Staff; then in 1942 he was sent to the South Pacific where he became chief of staff of the Allied air forces in that area.
In addition, McCarley insists on referring to American air doctrine from the 1930s on as "Douhetian." This is incorrect; the tactical school barely knew of his ideas before World War II, and besides, Douhet advocated the destruction of enemy morale by attacking the population directly.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/twin.html   (707 words)

  
 Squadron Officer College - Maxwell Air Force Base   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
All students will be billeted on base, if at all possible (excluding local students) and will receive the proportional meal rate (partial government meals, breakfast and dinner, are available and directed; lunch is not available).
The Air University Library is the largest military library in the United States and second only to the Library of Congress in the Federal government.
Anyone operating a motor vehicle on an Air Force base does so knowing that a blood, breath, or urine test to determine blood alcohol content can be taken if a law enforcement officer suspects you of driving under the influence.
soc.maxwell.af.mil /maxwell.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Maxwell Air Force Base -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maxwell Air Force Base is a (The airforce of the United States of America; defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space) United States Air Force facility near (Click link for more info and facts about Montgomery, Alabama) Montgomery, Alabama.
It is the headquarters for Air University, a major component of (Click link for more info and facts about Air Education and Training Command) Air Education and Training Command and is the Air Force’s center for Professional Military Education (PME).
As of 2005, the base is one of three which hosts (A training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers) ROTC summer field training encampments.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maxwell_air_force_base.htm   (218 words)

  
 Weapspac
Additionally, the Air Force should develop means to reverse the effects of at least some space denial weapons, including, for example, the capability to restore an enemy's satellites to their pre-conflict status.
While air and space forces may be properly and profitably employed against all forms of enemy military power, ground-based military forces operating without air and space superiority must take such extensive security measures against hostile air and space attack that it will reduce their mobility and ability to defeat enemy military forces on the earth.
Advocates of a separate space force state that the same arguments made by air power advocates in the 1930s and 1940s with respect to a separate air force are true today when applied to the separation of a space force from the Air Force.
www.fas.org /spp/eprint/occppr06.htm   (12966 words)

  
 Department of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Annex, Montgomery, Alabama and Local 997, American ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
By far the largest tenant activity is the Air University, which trains and educates military officers of the United States and allied nations.
As is relevant to this dispute, in October 1994, during the course of ground rules negotiations, the Union requested from the Employer office space and use of the Base Transfer Center (BTC), which was denied.
The successor agreement will be negotiated between the Union and Maxwell AFB and Gunter Annex, which is consistent with the level of recognition in Article 1, Sections 1 and 2, of the current CBA.
www.flra.gov /fsip/finalact/95fs_079.html   (1227 words)

  
 New South Associates: Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aviation was spectacularly introduced to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1910, when the Wright brothers, known as the "professors of air" briefly established a warm weather airfield west of the Alabama River.
Maxwell Field was selected as one of 32 existing airfields to be enlarged as part of a 1926 program to expand the Army's increasingly important aviation branch.
The base received the Air Corps Tactical School in 1931, and was home to such personages as General Claire Chennault before World War II.
www.newsouthassoc.com /experience/proj-maxwell.html   (186 words)

  
 Benjamin D. Foulois
After the war, he served as an air attaché in Germany, commanded Mitchel Field in New York, and in 1931 was named chief of the Air Corps.
Foulois came from a humble background and was physically unimpressive; worse, he lacked the charisma of his contemporary and chief rival within the air arm, Billy Mitchell.
At the same time, the chief of the Signal Corps was forced from office due to financial improprieties, and Mitchell, who had not yet even flown an airplane, was temporarily placed in charge.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/cc/foul.html   (699 words)

  
 Maxwell Air Force Base - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maxwell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force facility in Alabama.
Archaeological survey and Cold War assessment of Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Station, Montgomery, Alabama
Air University : the education arm of the Air Force (SuDoc D 301.26/6:AI 7/10)
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /maxwell_air_force_base.htm   (191 words)

  
 Air Force Reserve Command Senior Leader Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
BRIGADIER GENERAL ROBERT L. Brigadier General Robert L. Corley is the vice commander of 22nd Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. The 22nd Air Force has command supervision of Air Force Reserve airlift resources in the eastern United States.
The general enlisted in the Air Force in 1965, graduating from Electronic Warfare Technician training at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.
January 2003 - present, mobilization assistant to the Inspector General of the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon.
www.afrc.af.mil /News/bios/corley.htm   (755 words)

  
 maxwell air force base air show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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The air show portion of the event will be centered around the Milwaukee County Park's War Memorial and Veterans Park.
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 Maxwell/Gunter Dispatch
Maxwell Air Force Base will renovate the Bell Street gate beginning late November to meet current Air Force security standards.
Maxwell Air Force Base is stepping up its war on illegal drugs.
Alligator can't catch me!" sing the young students in the Maxwell Child Development Center Part-Day Enrichment program while swinging their arms in the air as they imagine monkeys in a tree would do.
www.maxwellgunterdispatch.com   (231 words)

  
 Online Bibliography of Military Leadership -- U
Air Force Academy, Colorado: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1969.
"Summary of regression analyses in the prediction of leadership criteria, Air Force Academy classes of 1961 through 1963." Lackland Air Force Base, Texas: U.S. Air Force, 1961.
"Air staff officer's manual." Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air Command and Staff School, 1954.
www.west.asu.edu /vanfleet/milbib/milbibu.htm   (1910 words)

  
 Air Base: Insights on air   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota has been pulled back from the grave by the base closing commission, thwarting Pentagon plans to consolidate the Air Force's small B-1 bomber fleet at a single air base.
Air Force One had been scheduled for a noon landing at the air base but was forced to circle the military air strip until the weather improved.
A US-run air base in Kyrgyzstan will take over some duties from another US base in neighboring Uzbekistan that is used to support operations in Afghanistan The transfer of some duties to the Manas air base in...
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 Maxwell Air Force Base - AskTheBrain.com
Ken McClellan, Air Force spokesman said on September 11, that Mohammad Atta attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell/Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, and was seen by eye-witnesses?
Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the Air Force, is a volunteer, non-profit organization with its national headquarters at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
Air Force operational reports from the archives at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama with regard to P-38 engagements with Soviet planes near Vienna, Austria, on April 2, 1945.
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 Handbook of Texas Online: LAREDO AIR FORCE BASE
Laredo Air Force Base, formerly Laredo Army Air Field, was on U.S. highways 59 and 81 near Laredo in Webb County.
The field became inactive in late 1945, and the property reverted to the city of Laredo, which used it as a municipal airport in 1950.
The base was reactivated and renamed Laredo Air Force Base in April 1952 to provide basic flight training for jet pilots, including pilot trainees from twenty-four countries.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/qbl2.html   (211 words)

  
 Commanders Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He is responsible to the commander of Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools for commissioning and training 3,200 officers yearly, he commissions line officers through the Basic Officer Training program and provides initial officership training for newly commissioned chaplains, health professionals, and judge advocates through the Commissioned Officer Training program.
Colonel Gerber was commissioned in June 1984 through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program upon graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a degree in electrical engineering.
Prior to commanding OTS, he served on the Air Staff in the Pentagon as the Global Strike CONOPS Champion to integrate the Air Force’s most advanced capabilities.
ots.afoats.af.mil /CCBio.htm   (524 words)

  
 Superior Air Warfighter: Bibliography (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Aerial interdiction : air power and the land battle in three American wars/ by Mark, Eduard Maximilian Washington, D.C. : Center for Air Force History ; U.S. Battlefield of the future : 21st century warfare issues/ by Schneider, Barry R., Grinter, Lawrence E. Maxwell AFB, Ala.
DS79.724.U6 A88 1992 Ground maneuver and air interdiction / a matter of mutual support at the operational level of war / by Eggington, Jack B. Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.
U260.F57 1995 Seeing off the bear : Anglo-American air power cooperation during the Cold War : proceedings, joint meeting of the Royal Air Force Historical Society and the Air Force Historical Foundation / by Miller, Roger Gene Royal Air Force Historical Society.
www.wrs.afrl.af.mil /library/airsup.htm   (1182 words)

  
 COLONEL MARY KAY HERTOG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She coordinates Air Force Reserve security forces issues with the Air National Guard Readiness Center and with Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command.
Colonel Hertog entered the Air Force in 1978 as an Air Force ROTC distinguished graduate.
As a career security forces officer, she has worked unit, major command, and Air Staff levels, has commanded several large security forces units, and completed a tour of duty as a technical training group commander at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
www2.acc.af.mil /library/biography/hertog_mk.html   (486 words)

  
 LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBIN F   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBIN F. Lieutenant Colonel Robin F. Grantham is deputy director of the United States Air Force Public Affairs Center of Excellence, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
In 1996, she joined the Air Force Reserve and was assigned as a public affairs officer to the 94
Prior to her current assignment, she was the Assistant for Reserve Affairs at Air Command and Staff College and served as a faculty member at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
www.cadre.maxwell.af.mil /pace/grantham.htm   (473 words)

  
 AETC News Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AETCNS) -- The conference room was filled with loud sounds of conversation, feelings of quiet excitement and nostalgia.
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AETCNS) -- A formation of training aircraft from Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, flies over the "Taj Mahal," the base’s landmark and 12th Flying Training Wing headquarters, May 24 during the...
The e-zine issue of the safety magazine for Air Education and Training Command, Torch, is posted and published monthly.
www.aetc.randolph.af.mil /pa/aetcns/Jun2004/index.htm   (1068 words)

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