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  • For Maxwell-Gunter specific information and updates about COVID-19, please visit https://www.facebook.com/MaxwellAFB

    Base Services Reductions and Closures

    Updated service reduction & closure list for Maxwell AFB and Maxwell-Gunter Annex
  • University of Delaware Air Force ROTC Detachment 128’s Cadet 4th Class Cynthia Rivera participated in the Flight Academy Scholarship Program at Liberty University in 2018 as a high school junior. Currently a freshman at Delaware State University, she said though the Flight Academy made her step outside of her comfort zone it also prepared her to seek challenges and aim for excellence.

    HQ AFJROTC announces 2021 Flight Academy scholarship winners

    In the face of the COVID-19 threat more than 1,340 cadets from units around the world applied for one of 230 scholarships that are valued at approximately $22,500. The scholarship covers transportation, room and board, academics and flight hours required to potentially earn a private pilot license. The 2020 Flight Academy was cancelled because of the pandemic.
  • Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AF ROTC) shield (clr), Contributed by Morris Foston II

    Fresno State AFROTC wins teaching innovation award, other detachments fighting through COVID-19

    California State University, Fresno selected AFROTC Detachment 035 as the recipient of its fall 2020 Provost’s Award for Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times in the category of Innovative Teaching. The university announced the award on Dec. 22, 2020.
  • Chief Sheehan observes Lee HS AFJROTC drill

    AFJROTC flies, fights and wins vs COVID-19

    Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets continue to strive and thrive across the nation and around the word despite ever-changing coronavirus constraints.
  • The Clover High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Guard color guard team perform drill movements during their competition video recording in Clovis, South Carolina. Teams from across 7 states competed in several events, including Color Guard, Individual Armed, Individual Unarmed, Element Armed, Element Unarmed, Element Unarmed 1st year, Flight Armed and Flight Unarmed.

    Amid pandemic AFROTC Det holds virtual JROTC drill competition

    Focusing on the primary goal of ROTC to make exceptional officers, Det. 592 saw COVID safety precautions not as a barrier, but as an opportunity to mentor future second lieutenants to see opportunity in the face of change.      
  • U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Coralys Ross, noncommissioned officer in charge of Air Force ROTC Detachment 207, loads boxes filled with Airman Battle Uniform items into a car during a donation event at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Dec. 18, 2020. The donation to a local Air Force Junior ROTC detachment, valued at more than $20,000, resulted from the transition of Air Force ROTC cadets to the Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform during the Fall 2020 academic semester.

    Air Force ROTC keeps ABUs in the family

    An Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps detachment received a donation of Airman Battle Uniforms,valued at more than $20,000, after the transition of Air Force ROTC cadets to the Operational Camouflage Pattern uniform during the Fall 2020 academic semester.
  • Technical Sgt. Vince Boven poses beside the Air Force ROTC Detachment 400 guidon at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan. “Boven is an amazing noncommissioned officer and will be an outstanding officer,” said Lt. Col. Joseph Pulliam, AFROTC Detachment 400 commander.

    Air Force ROTC sergeant gets surprise of his life, path to officer commissioning

    Technical Sgt. Vincent Boven found out over the airwaves in early November that the commander of Air Education and Training Command had tapped him for a highly selective program to receive a commission.

  • Christmas and New Year’s Day 2020: Holiday hours at Maxwell Air Force Base & Gunter Annex

    ​Many Maxwell Air Force Base – Gunter Annex offices and services will be closed or have limited hours for the Christmas and New Year’s Holidays. The base will observe Christmas Eve Thursday, Dec. 24th, Christmas Friday, Dec. 25th, New Year’s Day Friday, Jan 1st, and an AETC Family Day on Monday, Jan. 4th.
  • Cadet James Huang, North Gwinnett High School, Suwanee, Georgia, sits in the cockpit of a trainer aircraft at Auburn University, Alabama, in summer 2018. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force Flight Academy scholarship program allows selected Air Force Junior ROTC cadets to attend an accredited aviation program at one of six partnering universities to get a private pilot license. Despite being shut down in summer 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, AFJROTC is now accepting applications to the Flight Academy for summer 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Matthew Markivee)

    AFJROTC Flight Academy flying again in 2021

    The COVID-19 coronavirus forced Headquarters AFJROTC to shut down the Flight Academy for 2020. However, AFJROTC high school cadets who will be 17 by July 9, 2021, and are interested in earning a Private Pilot’s Certification are encouraged to apply by Nov. 25.
  • Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. Stephen W. Wilson presents a decorative coin to Master Sgt. Simone Moonsammy-Robinson to show appreciation for her contribution to the COVID-19 response during a visit to the 42nd Medical Group, Oct. 22, 2020, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Moonsammy-Robinson developed a plan to make the packaging and shipment of COVID-19 tests more efficient and standardized. (U.S. Air Force photo by William Birchfield)

    VCSAF Wilson recognizes Maxwell AFB MDG

    In order to properly support the DoD’s lines of efforts towards COVID-19, protecting people, ensuring mission readiness and supporting the whole-of-nation response, the medical professionals at the 42nd Medical Group stepped up to the challenge with tactfulness and ingenuity.
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