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  • Academy to host 5km to raise money for AFAF

    A 5k run is scheduled here to drum-up donations for the Air Force Assistance Fund Campaign, 9 a.m., April 9 at the base’s Par Course.  Entry fees collected at the event will be donated to the campaign. Those entry fees are $10 for cadets and airmen through senior airmen; $15 for staff and technical

  • Cadets give up spring break for good cause

    Fourteen cadets gave up their spring break to build homes for Habitat for Humanity as part of the Academy’s alternate spring break program March 21-25 in Sacramento.             A total of 75 Air Force Academy cadets volunteered with Habitat for Humanity this year, in six cities: Sacramento,

  • Cadet instructor pilots teach Academy sophomores to soar in Arizona

    Blizzard-like conditions may have struck the U.S. Air Force Academy earlier this month, but in Arizona the weather was perfect for cadet instructor pilots who taught Academy sophomores the art of soaring in Coolidge, Arizona.   During their two-week trip to Arizona, 15 cadets and four officers from

  • 10th SFS hosts open house March 28, shows-off upgraded facility

    The 10th Security Forces Squadron here unveiled its renovated building with an unusual ribbon-cutting ceremony March 28: Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson, the Academy superintendent, sliced the ribbon with a bayonet attached to an M4 Carbine Rifle.The renovations include a top-to-bottom refurbishing of the

  • Alternative spring break: Cadets ‘deconstruct’ Houston home

    HOUSTON -- A whirlwind of activity marked spring break for 15 Air Force Academy cadets in Houston, March 21-25.The Northwest Harris County chapter of Habitat for Humanity kept the cadets busy, starting March 21 with a two-day deconstruction project in the River Oaks neighborhood. “Deconstruction is

  • Academy’s headquarters staff, 10th ABW win Air Force awards

    The Secretary of the Air Force selected the headquarters staff and the 10th Air Base Wing at the Air Force Academy for two high-level awards this week.The headquarters staff was awarded the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award and the 10th Air Base Wing the Air Force Outstanding Unit

  • Alternative spring break: Cadets work on Corpus Cristi home

    CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Caulking, painting and moving piles of rain-packed mud marked the start of spring break for 10 cadets in Texas March 22. The cadets volunteered to take part in the Academy’s Alternative Spring Break and work with a Habitat for Humanity chapter in Corpus Christi. In the

  • Alternative spring break: Cadets build Okla home

     OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- For more than a decade, cadets at the Air Force Academy have participated in the alternative spring break program by volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.Ten cadets traveled to Oklahoma City to frame and repair a house March 21. The home-site consisted of a slab foundation

  • Soldiers, baseball champ Eckstein visit cadet athletes

    The Falcons Baseball team met with Fort Carson soldiers and retired Major League baseball champion David Eckstein March 5 before beating the University of Nevada Wolf Pack 18-4.  The meeting was part of the Cadet-Athlete-Soldier Training and Leadership Exchange program, or CASTLE, between the 1st