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Feb. 3, 2021
Contact tracing key to overcoming COVID-19

Public health Airmen are responsible for medically processing all deployers, ensuring all food products served on base are safe to consume and safeguarding the health of beneficiaries and employees through preventive medicine, education, counseling and surveillance testing. One of the challenges
Jan. 26, 2021
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.
Jan. 26, 2021
Barnes Center continues partnership with Senegalese air force

Nearly two years of coordination, instruction and practice culminated in an event Dec. 8-10, 2020, where Senegalese student-instructors were evaluated on their teaching skills as they conducted lessons on historical figures from their country. This third collaboration among the partners was held
Jan. 19, 2021
CCAF finalizes education partnership with Stillman College, first HBCU in GEM Program

Stillman, located in Tuscaloosa, is the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities to sign up with CCAF’s General Education Mobile Program.
Jan. 19, 2021
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.
Jan. 16, 2021
COVID-19 vaccinations begin at Maxwell-Gunter AFB

The 42nd Medical Group began administering the COVID-19 vaccine at the honor guard hangar Jan. 16, 2020, on Maxwell Air Force Base.
Jan. 15, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine arrives at Maxwell-Gunter AFB

Vaccinations will begin Jan. 16, at the honor guard hangar on Maxwell, which will serve as an off-site clinic. The available doses are to be distributed in a five-day timeframe.
Jan. 15, 2021
Maxwell hangar converts into off-site COVID-19 vaccine clinic

Airmen with the 42nd Medical Group converted the hangar into an off-site clinic, where they will begin administering the COVID-19 vaccine on January 16.
Jan. 12, 2021
Maxwell Airmen change BTZ packages, ensuring non-biased promotions

Staff Sgt. Alexcia Tubbs and Senior Airman Micaella Trinidad Howard proposed the idea to “sanitize” the senior airman below-the-zone packages by removing names, race, ethnicity, unit and gender from the packages to eliminate any subconscious bias in the scoring process.
Dec. 24, 2020
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.

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