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A student attending Airman Leadership School holds their pen during a group discussion at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Feb. 5, 2026. The multi-week course blends classroom instruction with practical leadership scenarios to prepare Airmen for supervisory roles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mikayla Cardona

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Exterior photo of the Air Command and Staff College building

Air Command and Staff College

U.S. Air Force Maj. Thomas West, Chaplains Corps College staff chaplain, instructs a class of Religious Affairs Airmen on Spiritual Fitness at Maxwell Air Force Base, April 9, 2025

Air Force Chaplain Corps College

Global College of PME course director briefs local sports team

Air Force Global College

Air Force Institute of Technology

Air Force Institute of Technology

Air Force's senior PME school for officers. Each year over 250 colonels and lieutenant colonels attend - from the Air Force and other U.S. military services, equivalent grade civilians from U.S. government agencies, as well as from 45 other nations.

Air War College

Airmen assigned to the 319th Reconnaissance Squadron pose for a photo after an Airman Leadership School ceremony at Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., March 27, 2025.

Airman Leadership School

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force David Wolfe

Chief Master Sergeant Leadership Academy

Master Sgt. Matthew Smith, 446th Civil Engineer Squadron pavement and construction equipment NCOIC, provides guidance for moving dirt to an Airman at Moron Air Base, Spain, on May 6, 2025.

Civil Engineering School

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Civilian Leadership Development School

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David Flosi addresses Ira C. Eaker Center’s Group Commander and Superintendents course at Maxwell AFB, Ala., Mar. 12, 2024. Flosi also addressed the Wing Command team course during his first visit to Maxwell as CMSAF. (US Air Force photo by Melanie Rodgers Cox)

Commanders' Professional Development School

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Grant Schneider, Community College of the Air Force non-commissioned officer in charge of Aviation Maintenance Technology degrees program, poses for a photo at Maxwell-Gunter Annex, Alabama, March 5, 2025.

Community College of the Air Force

Defense Financial Management & Comptroller School (DFM&CS)

Defense Financial Mgmt & Comptroller School

Air Force professional military education instructors discuss Non-Commissioned Officer Academy curriculum with writers from the Barnes Center for Enlisted Education, Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex, Nov. 29, 2022.

Enlisted PME Instructor Course

First Sergeant Academy

First Sergeant Academy

Slideshow Image Photo for Ira C. Eaker Landing Site.

Force Support Professional Development School

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Controls Engineer Capt. Christian Potts, left, and Program Manager Amy Burns, right, watch from the simulation control room at AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate while 2nd Lt. Ryan Collins demonstrates automatic fly up maneuvers in a virtual flight simulator generated by the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto GCAS, Dec. 6, 2022, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Auto GCAS is a software update developed by AFRL, Lockheed Martin and NASA that prevents an aircraft from impacting the ground by automatically pulling the aircraft up before an accident can occur. Kerianne Hobbs, safe autonomy and space lead with the Autonomy Capability Team, or ACT3, for the Sensors Directorate at AFRL, was the lead author of a 38-page spread in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Magazine, titled Runtime assurance for safety-critical systems: An introduction to safety filtering approaches for complex control systems, for her extensive research in runtime assurance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

Graduate School of Engineering & Management

International Officer School students participate in a preparatory course training session at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Oct. 22, 2025.

International Officer School

Graduates pose for a group photo during a graduation ceremony

NCO Academy

Italian Air Force Lt. Col. Emanuele Fumanti, 36° Wing XII Fighter Squadron, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies student, reads course material at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Oct. 23, 2025.

School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

Airmen of the 96th Bomb Squadron prepare a B-52H Stratofortress for takeoff during exercise Global Storm at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Aug. 18, 2021.

School of Strategic Force Studies

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joshua Sandoval, 7th Logistics Readiness Squadron ground transportation operator, directs a truck to unload food supplies for the Denton Program on Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, April 28, 2025. The Denton Program allows private U.S. citizens and organizations to use space available on U.S. military cargo planes to transport humanitarian goods. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Adrien Tran)

School of Systems & Logistics

Graduates of Class 21-E stand for the arrival of the official party at a graduation ceremony at the Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy on Maxwell-Gunter Annex, Alabama, May 26, 2020. The SNCOA held its first in-person graduation ceremony since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020.

Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy

Capt. Jacob Song conducts a class briefing during his SPEAR experience at Air University's Squadron Officer School December 8, 2023. The SPEAR track for Space Force members follows similar basic outlines as the Air Force-specific SOS course with specialized consideration for space to best form the upcoming Space Force leaders. (U.S. Air Force photo by Billy Blankenship)

Squadron Officer School