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  • 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

  • Rugby Update: Zoomies head to New Zealand

    Air Force Academy men’s rugby goes international with matches and clinics in New Zealand for spring break. The Zoomies start their trip by training with the Royal New Zealand Air Force Colts rugby team March 20, competing in a practice match against the Colts March 21 at the Canterbury Crusaders

  • Academy hosts global crisis exercise for military, civilian students

    International studies cadets and students from universities across the U.S. swapped their military and civilian roles during a global crisis exercise hosted by the Air Force Academy March 3-5. The goal of the event, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an organization supporting humanities

  • Academy freshmen get ‘recognized’

    “Recognition” for freshmen cadets at the Air Force Academy was in full swing March 10-12 as hundreds of four degrees sprinted across campus, exercised, and did their best to follow the loud orders of senior cadets.  The three-day event is a challenge freshmen must endure before earning the status of

  • NCLS: What’s your ‘Go Spencer’ moment?

    The NCO who thwarted a terrorist attack on a high-speed train bound for Paris last year spoke to cadets and permanent-party staff members here during the 2016 National Character and Leadership Symposium Feb. 25-26.                Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone and his two friends, Alek Skarlatos and

  • Intramural wrap up: Hospital No. 1 takes home championship

    Two teams from the 10th Medical Group competed for the intramural championship title Feb. 23 with Hospital No. 2 defeating Hospital No. 1 with a final score of the first game 47-43. The teams played a second game to determine the champion because it was a double elimination tournament and Hospital

  • DOJ official discusses legal protection program with cadets

    The Department of Justice’s third-ranking lawyer visited the Air Force Academy March 5 to talk to cadets about the Service Members and Veterans Initiative, a legal support and protection network for service members, veterans and their families. Stuart Delery, the acting associate attorney general,