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  • Academy's enlisted support local football camp

    The Academy's 5/6 Club and volunteers from other Front Range bases helped give would-be football players a taste of the big leagues July 12-15.The Pro Football Camp is an annual event designed to offer young athletes the opportunity to learn football at the feet of current and retired National

  • Colo. Springs community, Airmen replace Tuskegee Airman's stolen medal

    A personal tragedy for one of the documented original Tuskegee Airmen ended on a happy note July 22, courtesy of the Colorado Springs community, and Airmen from Peterson Air Force Base and the Air Force Academy.Former 2nd Lt. Franklin Macon received a bronze replica of the Tuskegee Airmen

  • Cadets perform CPR on ailing hiker

    A day of hiking on Quandary Peak turned into an experience that three senior cadets from the Air Force Academy won't soon forget.Cadets 1st Class Benjamin Gomez, Andrew Nemethy and Michael Smith were near the summit of the popular fourteener when they saw a Flight for Life helicopter land nearby."We

  • Cadets study art of cyber warfare

    Rising sophomores at the Air Force Academy might compile a "things I did this summer" list that looks a little something like this:Deployment exercise, check. Piloted an airplane, check. Trained by the Air Force to be computer hacker, check.That last one is not a joke. Thanks to a newly introduced

  • Cadets gain insight into security forces mission in Southwest Asia

    For a group of Air Force Academy cadets visiting the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing in Southwest Asia, a training day with security forces proved both exhausting and informative.The cadets, here as part of Operation Air Force-Deployed, a program designed to give cadets a firsthand view of a

  • Operation Air Force: Cadets take trial runs at Aviano AB

    Eight cadets recently visited Aviano Air Base, Italy, recently as part of Operation Air Force, a program designed to give cadets operational Air Force experience.In Operation Air Force, rising juniors and seniors spend nearly three weeks at an Air Force base to shadow active-duty personnel in

  • Cañon City Airman buried at Academy after 45 years missing

    An Airman who was declared missing in action over North Vietnam in 1966 was buried at the Air Force Academy today with full military honors.Col. Leo S. Boston of Cañon City, Colo., was a member of the 14th Air Commando Wing assigned to Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand in 1966. A captain at

  • Prep School welcomes new class of cadet hopefuls

    Inprocessing at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School began Wednesday, ushering in this year's class of soon-to-be Academy cadets.For thousands of past applicants who didn't qualify for direct entry, the Prep School has served as a gateway for entrance into the Academy.The Prep School's 10-month

  • New aircraft soar into Academy

    Cadets in the Air Force Academy's Airmanship program will now train in state of the art sailplanes, as the first TG-16A glider touched down at the Academy July 8.The new fleet of training and aerobatic gliders is valued at $4.8 million and includes five new aerobatic gliders and 14 basic trainer