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  • Air Force cadet learns messy side of waste-to-energy research

    It's been described as a 200-gallon cow's stomach, and for Air Force Academy cadet Marcus Penner it's been a big part of his summer break.For six weeks, Penner, a biology major and senior at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., worked alongside scientists at the Air Force Civil Engineer

  • Installations director outlines vision for new visitor center

    The Air Force Academy will move forward next month on the first step toward building a new visitor center just west of Interstate 25, the director of installations said July 21.Carlos Cruz-Gonzalez said the Air Force's Financial Management Center of Expertise in Denver conducted business case

  • CCLD staff brings core values to the masses

    For the past six months, the Center for Character and Leadership Development's strategic outreach team here has traveled throughout the country to expand the conversation on character development.The team of six visited 15 organizations, briefing active duty service members and Reservists,

  • From trash to treasure: Converting Academy waste into renewable energy

    New research here reveals Academy trash might be a treasure.Last August, the Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program funded CDM Smith, a national engineering and construction firm, to test how the Academy can reduce energy use and cost at its wastewater

  • 'Prior - E' takes on USAFA Prep School challenges

    The U.S. Air Force Academy's Preparatory School inprocessed 243 cadet candidates this week, but this wasn't the first taste of military life for one 20-year-old woman."Before arriving at the Prep School I was stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., as a broadcast journalist," said basic

  • SAPR director visits USAFA

    The Air Force's director of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response visited the Air Force Academy July 7-9 to learn about the Academy's SAPR program and see what initiatives the Air Force could apply across the force. "I have learned that the academy has phenomenal programs," said Brig. Gen. Gina

  • Existing tools help users reduce PII breaches

    Airmen across the Air Force are refurbishing an old email tool to help users reduce breaches of personally identifiable information, or PII.The Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET, which currently prompts users to provide a digital signature when an email contains an active hyperlink or

  • Academy cadets enhance skills at BMT

    After spending the last six weeks working with basic military training instructors, U.S. Air Force Academy cadets left Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland enthused and anxious to share their learning experience with fellow classmates.The 26 cadets in the annual Air Education and Training Command Summer

  • Cadets experience deployed life at The Rock

    With a little more than two years under their belts at the U.S. Air Force Academy, 16 cadets now find themselves in a different setting than the mountains of Colorado -- the desert of Southwest Asia. These future officers embarked on an opportunity of a lifetime by participating in the deployed

  • Basic cadets attempt to set world chain push up record

    The Academy's Class of 2018 tried to break the Guinness World Record for the largest chain push-up during Basic Cadet Training field day here July 11.Nine hundred and eighteen basic cadets attempted to break the record, requiring each cadet to rest his or her ankles and calves on the shoulders of