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  • 840 graduating Air Force second lieutenants serve as inspiration

    Air Force Academy graduation - 840 inspirational stories!Last month, our Air Force Academy launched our 57th graduating class, to lead and serve our Air Force and our nation. As each new second lieutenant stepped before me, I could feel a sense of accomplishment radiating as he or she shook my hand,

  • Academy Airmen earn CCAF degrees

    A group of Airmen assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy received their Community College of the Air Force degrees during a graduation ceremony at the Falcon Club here June 9.Col. Troy Dunn, the 10th Air Base Wing commander, said earning a CCAF degree is a notable achievement for any Airman, but

  • Air Force focuses on 3rd round of VERA/VSIP for civilians

    In an effort to lead its force management actions with voluntary programs, Air Force officials announced a third round of civilian workforce shaping measures beginning June 15.The measures are necessary to meet the Air Force's headquarters organization and staffing reductions, which were designed to

  • Cadets build homes for Navajo Nation

    Fifty-seven Air Force Academy cadets started their civil engineer careers by building two homes for the Navajo Nation as part of the Academy's Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory May 31.The FERL is a summer engineering course exposing cadets to the various aspects of civil engineering through

  • 306th FTG-10th CS wins intramural soccer championship

    The Air Force Academy intramural soccer league concluded its regular season May 21, when a combined squad of 306th Flying Training Group and 10th Communications Squadron Airmen took first place and Hospital Number 1 took second place during the last games of the season.The 306th FTG-10th CS defeated

  • Air Force selects 23 Academy NCOs for E-6 promotion

    The Air Force selected 8,446 Airmen for promotion to technical sergeant June 9 and 23 of those NCOs are assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy.Staff Sgt. Andrew Samland, assigned to the 10th Medical Support Squadron, is a technical sergeant select."My first thought was 'It's not real' and 'It's

  • DOD notified of OPM cybersecurity incident

    The U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced June 4 that a recent cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data may have exposed the personal information of current and former federal employees.According to a Defense Department news release, OPM subsequently notified federal government

  • Proud to go beyond the horizon

    As a rural latchkey kid growing up in Iowa in the 1970s, I used to climb on the rooftops of our farm buildings with my German shepherd and look out at the endless horizon beyond the corn fields. You could see the curvature of the earth and just beyond was a world that I yearned to explore. The tough

  • Academy participates in community town hall

    U.S. Air Force Academy and 306th Flying Training Group leadership attended a town hall meeting hosted by the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance to discuss flight training and a joint land use study June 4 at the Classical Academy's east campus.Attendees were given information on the history

  • Academy graduates train for 2016 Olympics

    Every year, thousands of athletes across the world push their physical and emotional limits, nursing themselves through injuries and moments of doubt. The goal? Making it to the Olympics.Five of those athletes are Academy graduates, living and working here at 7,258 foot elevation through the Air