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  • 1998 grad earns 19th Air Medal

    Maj. Josh Brown thinks records are made to be broken. A KC-135 pilot deployed here, Brown flew his final combat sortie for this deployment July 30, qualifying him to receive the 18th oak leaf cluster for his Air Medal. Currently, the next highest awardees in the KC-135 Stratotanker each have 15

  • Academy sponsors annual Retiree Appreciation Day

    According to the Pennsylvania Dutch, we get too soon old and too late smart.Airmen here believe they can help remedy that problem, which is one of several reasons they maintained the annual tradition of Retiree Appreciation Day with an event in the Arnold Hall ballroom July 23.Senior Master Sgt.

  • Academy officials treating sick cadets, staff for stomach flu

    Health professionals here announced July 26 that they are currently caring for approximately 240 cadets and active-duty personnel exhibiting symptoms of viral gastroenteritis, or viral stomach flu.No one has been hospitalized to date for the infections, said Maj. (Dr.) Ruth German, a flight surgeon

  • 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