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  • Finishing the fight: IDF soldiers visit Academy

    Israeli Defense Force soldiers visited the Air Force Academy June 22 to check out the school’s hand-to-hand combat training. Their stopover was part of a two-week visit to the U.S. to compare the IDF’s hand-to-hand combat and grappling training to similar training at U.S. military and civilian

  • Combat Conditioning club competes in ESPN Battlefrog College Championship

    The Air Force Academy’s Cadet Combat Conditioning Team debuted June 30 during the 2016 ESPN Battlefrog College Championship. Former cadet 2nd Lt. Sandra Suito, Cadets 2nd Class Parker Gray and Matthew Blackburn, and Cadet 3rd Class Julia Corton, competed in the Battlefrog season 2 championship over

  • Basic cadet training to start June 30

    The next class of Air Force Academy cadets begins Basic Cadet Training June 30.  In all, 1,175 Class of '20 cadets are scheduled to attend BCT, which includes physical conditioning; weapons training; drills and inspections; lessons on the Uniform Code of Military Justice; First Aid; honor and

  • Academy recognized for fire prevention programs

    A national fire-prevention official welcomed the Air Force Academy into the ranks of U.S. Firewise Communities June 18.   Cathy Prudhome, associate project manager of the National Fire Prevention Association’s community programs, presented the recognition to Col. Ken Ohlson, 10th Mission Support

  • Academy firefighters host Youth Fire Safety Camp

    Dozens of local children mixed and mingled with firefighters, learned about fire prevention and managed to have a little fun June 22at the Air Force Academy’s Youth Fire Safety Camp. Hosted by the 10th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Emergency Services Flight, the annual camp teaches 8-12-year olds

  • 10th MDG takes intramural championship

    The 10th Medical Group took the intramural soccer championship June 16 when they beat the 10th Communications Squadron-306th Flying Training Group 6-1 to finished the regular season 8-0. Mike David, 10th MDG, scored in the first minute of the game off an assist from Govinda Allin. David scored two

  • Cadets build homes for Navajo Nation

    Air Force civil engineers are building two homes for the Navajo Nation as part of the Academy's Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory this summer. The FERL is a 5-week summer engineering course exposing cadets to civil engineering and a requirement for Air Force Academy cadets majoring in civil

  • Cadet researchers improve 'fast rope' technology

    An invention by former cadets at the Air Force Academy to get troops out of an aircraft and on the ground in a hurry will be reviewed for patenting by legal staff at Air Force Materiel Command in Ohio. The auto-belay insertion system earned cadet researchers the top spots in the springtime Defense

  • Academy professor to be Supreme Court fellow

    Col. Cheryl Kearney, head of the Air Force Academy's Political Science Department, has been selected for a Supreme Court Fellowship to begin in August at the Office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice."Military officers take an oath to the U.S. Constitution," Kearney said. "Since it is the role of