FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama ~ 23 SEP 2014

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Road Trip: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama

Maxwell Air Force Base, officially known as Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, is a United States Air Force installation under the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). The installation is located in Montgomery, Alabama, US. It was named in honor of Atmore, Alabama native Second Lieutenant William C. Maxwell.

Maxwell AFB is the headquarters of Air University (AU), a major component of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), and is the U.S. Air Force's center for Joint Professional Military Education (PME). The host wing for Maxwell-Gunter is the 42nd Air Base Wing (42 ABW). The 908th Airlift Wing (908 AW) is a tenant activity and the only operational flying wing at Maxwell.

Under Air University are three principal schools that provide various levels of Joint Professional Military Education (JPME). The first is Squadron Officer School (SOS), a nearly 2 month program oriented towards First Lieutenants and Captains in the Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.

The second, Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) is a year long program for Air Force officers (to include Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard), Department of Defense civil servants in the grade of GS-13, as well as select officers from other U.S. and Allied armed forces in the rank of Major, Lieutenant Commander, Squadron Leader or equivalent. ACSC is considered "intermediate" level JPME.

The third program, Air War College (AWC) is also a year long program and selects students from the same sources as ACSC, but the minimum rank for attendance rises to Lieutenant Colonel, Commander, Wing Commander or equivalent or DoD civil servants in the grade of GS-14. AWC is considered "senior" level JPME.

Maxwell AFB also hosts the Air Force Officer Accession and Training Schools (AFOATS), which has oversight for two of the Air Force's three officer commissioning programs, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC), which is headquartered at Maxwell and Air Force Officer Training School (OTS), which is headquartered and conducted at Maxwell AFB, having relocated from Lackland AFB, Texas in the 1990s.

Capitalizing on the new facilities built for OTS in the 1990s, Maxwell is now the only base hosting the annual fall/spring semester and summer Field Training (FT) encampments for AFROTC cadets that they must attend before commissioning. The Civil Air Patrol's corporate and joint CAP-USAF headquarters is also located at Maxwell.

Learn More About Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base HERE!

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[laurenmarlowe]

United States Marine Corps Band ~ National Anthem

[Soaring Feather]

IN!!!

[luvie]

Good road trip, Lauren! (((hugs)))

[left that other site]

Hi everybody!

((((HUGS))))

[2111USMC]

Howdy!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy Ms. Feather!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you LUV!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy left that other site!

THIRD!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening 2111USMC! It’s good to see you!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi MA!

*HUGS*

Unpacking moving boxes this evening, got a few more kitchen boxes to go, and I will check back in shortly!

[Leroy S. Mort]

Took my AFROTC basic training at Gunter. As I recall, it was right next to a State Prison and the inmates on the other side of the fence had quite a laugh at us. Our TAC officer was Captain Schwartz.

“Road guards out!”

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Ms Feather...you were quick!! ((HUGS))

Are your leaves turning yet?

I used the snow shovel to get leaves off the deck yesterday.

[left that other site]

Howdy!

I had the most WONDERFUL experience today!

One of my little students, 12 year old T., sang a near PERFECT “I dreamed a dream” from Les Miz today that brought tears to my eyes.

Then, she told me about an experience she had today in school. In 7th grade, they had a substitute civics teacher who was an obvious liberal, and he gave them an essay test which asked “what is your OPINION on such-and-such”?”

After handing in her paper, T. was called to the front of the room and told in front of the class that her answer was WRONG!

T. very calmly said, “Sir, you asked me my opinion. You did not ask for the liberal opinion, or the Conservative opinion, or the democrat opinion, or the republican opinion. You asked me for MY opinion, and I gave to you.”

The teacher was stunned. he said, “ WHERE did you learn to think like that?”

T. answered, “From listening to Rush. You ought to try it sometime.”

H gave her an “A”.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv...still raining?

[Kathy in Alaska]

A PRAYER OF PROTECTION

The light of God surround you
The love of God enfold you
The power of God protect you
The presence of God watch over you
Wherever you are, God is,
And all is well.
Amen.

BLESS THIS HOUSE

 Bless this house O Lord we pray; Make it safe by night and day; 
Bless these walls so firm and stout, Keeping want and trouble out:
Bless the roof and chimneys tall, Let thy peace lie over all;
Bless this door, that it may prove ever open to joy and love.
Bless these windows shining bright, Letting in God's heav'nly light;
Bless the hearth a'blazing there, with smoke ascending like a prayer;
Bless the folk who dwell within, keep them pure and free from sin;
Bless us all that we may be Fit O Lord to dwell with thee;
Bless us all that one day we May dwell O Lord with thee. 

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[The Mayor]

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An Emergency Of The Spirit
Sept 23, 2014

Read: 2 Samuel 1:17-27

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son. —2 Samuel 1:17

Bible in a Year:
Song of Solomon 1-3; Galatians 2

In March 2011, a devastating tsunami struck Japan, taking nearly 16,000 lives as it obliterated towns and villages along the coast. Writer and poet Gretel Erlich visited Japan to witness and document the destruction. When she felt inadequate to report what she was seeing, she wrote a poem about it. In a PBS NewsHour interview she said, “My old friend William Stafford, a poet now gone, said, ‘A poem is an emergency of the spirit.’”

We find poetry used throughout the Bible to express deep emotion, ranging from joyful praise to anguished loss. When King Saul and his son Jonathan were killed in battle, David was overwhelmed with grief (2 Sam. 1:1-12). He poured out his soul in a poem he called “the Song of the Bow”: “Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. . . . How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! . . . I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been very pleasant to me” (vv.23-26).

When we face “an emergency of the spirit”—whether glad or sad—our prayers can be a poem to the Lord. While we may stumble to articulate what we feel, our heavenly Father hears our words as a true expression of our hearts.

Sometimes I do not pray in words—
I take my heart in my two hands
And hold it up before the Lord—
I am so glad He understands. —Nicholson

God does more than hear words; He reads hearts.

Insight

Although Saul had treated David as his enemy, David did not treat Saul as his. When Saul and his son Jonathan died in battle, David honored them in the song in today’s passage, which opens and closes with the refrain “How the mighty have fallen!” (vv.19,27).

[luvie]

Thanks! Don’t get that very often! LOL!

Ready for some shootin’? Got my t-shirt today. Sent NYT a text with it on...and I’ll bet he hasn’t even had his phone on. LOL!