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  • Academy seeks savings through mock energy bill program

    The Air Force Academy's Installations and Mission Support Directorate will send out a second round of mock utility bills in April to raise units' awareness about their energy use.The first round of bills, sent to mission elements here in February, breaks down how facilities across the base spent

  • Protecting personal information

    The Defense Department defines personally identifiable information, or PII, as information that identifies, links or is unique to an individual.PII can distinguish or trace a person's identity or any other information linked or linkable to any specified individual.There were two personally

  • Academy surpasses 2014 Air Force Assistance Fund goal

    This year, the Academy went above and beyond to help provide basic needs to fellow Airmen.For 2014, the Academy surpassed its goal of raising $78, 603 for the Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign by more than 150 percent, bringing in a total of $118,000 in donations to provide food, shelter,

  • Cadet wins American Chemical Society award for polymer research

    A senior cadet here won an award for the best undergraduate research poster from the American Chemical Society's Division of Polymer Chemistry during the Society's national meeting in Dallas March 16-20.Cadet 1st Class Ford Carty's poster was judged best of 31 posters, including some presented by

  • Don't invite the bears over this spring

    Academy families living in base housing may be used to seeing wildlife on the installation but due to the warmer weather, they might want to keep an eye out for Black Bears, as these rather noticeable omnivores will soon emerge from hibernation and begin searching for food.Black Bears normally feed

  • 7 Academy NCOs selected for promotion to E-8

    even Academy NCOs were among the more than 900 master sergeants selected across the Air Force for promotion to senior master sergeant.They are Master Sgt.'s Jason Arnold, James Normandin, Christopher Pugh, Jeremy Remley, Ellwood Tegtmeier, Christian Urena and Bryan Kinder.The Air Force released it's

  • A once in a lifetime opportunity: cadet visits Antarctica

    While most cadets traveled home for winter break, one meteorology major here headed as far south as you can go, to the coldest, windiest and driest place on earth -- Antarctica. Last December, Cadet 1st Class Glen Hanson spent a week on the frozen continent (made up of nearly 98 percent solid ice)

  • Camaraderie, strength, excellence: Academy cadets to compete at Sandhurst

    Academy cadets are getting ready to brave rigorous terrain, frigid waters and a trying obstacle course to showcase their skills and camaraderie.Nine cadets, freshman-to-senior, will compete in the U.S. Military Academy's annual Sandhurst Military Skills Competition April 11-12 at West Point, N.Y. to

  • Communication is about relationships, says Lt. Gen. Johnson at media forum

    Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson spoke to Colorado Springs leaders on communication and media relations in the digital age during a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs leadership conference, March 13 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. Johnson opened the conference, themed

  • News release: Disenrollment Process Review released

    Today the Air Force and the Air Force Academy released two Inspector General reports, one highlighting the Air Force Office of Special Investigations' use of cadets in the Confidential Informant program and one on the Academy's disenrollment process. "Both IG reports provide recommendations for a