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Airman Leadership School Distance Learning 2.0 launches
June 13, 2024 — Air University’s Airman Leadership School Distance Learning 2.0 is officially launching on June 17, 2024, as part of the Global College of Professional Military Education at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama... MORE

Maxwell Air Force Base welcomes first active duty flying training unit since 1945
February 1, 2024 — The 908th Airlift Wing has an active-duty associate mission partner at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama for the first time. Detachment 3 of the 58th Operations Group had an official activation ceremony on Jan. 31, 2024. Det. 3, and the 58th OG both belong to the 58th Special Operations Wing, based at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The 58th SOW’s parent organization is the 19th Air Force located at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, which belongs to the Air Education and Training Command... MORE

Air Force Reserve training manager shapes future of Space Force boot camp
July 24, 2023 — How do we make a Guardian? That question is just one of many that are being tackled by Tech. Sgt. Haleigh Irby, 908th Airlift Wing’s 25th Aerial Port Squadron training manager. Since November 2022, Irby has been on temporary duty to the 1st Delta Operations Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, where she has been writing the curriculum for the U.S. Space Force basic military training... MORE

344th Training Squadron instructors teach first mobile training Basic Special Mission Aviator course
May 10, 2022 — Two instructors from the 344th Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland were part of the mobile training team that helped eight enlisted members from 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell Air Force, Alabama, graduate the Basic Special Missions Aviator Course April 27. This was the first time that the BSMA course was taught by a mobile training team... MORE

Air Force’s Officer Training School restructures program to increase quality, quantity of officers
December 31, 2018 — The Air Force’s Officer Training School is changing the paradigm for building officers, pivoting away from separate programs for line and non-line officers and conducting merged classes beginning in January 2019... MORE

An Air Force Commissioned Officer Training course trainee stands in formation, May 24, 2018, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. OTS has recently merged COT with the Total Force Officer Training course to increase the quality and quantity of officers it can produce annually.