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  • Falcons fall to Cal, 55-36

    California's passing game was too much for the Air Force Academy Falcons to overcome as they fell to the Golden Bears 55-36 in the Armed Forces Bowl Dec. 29.Cal junior quarterback Jared Goff passed for 467 yards and six touchdowns, while the nation and seven NFL scouts looked on, at the bowl

  • Falcons visit Fort Worth hospital

    Air Force Academy football players and cheerleaders spread holiday cheer with patients and their families at Cook Children's Medical Center here Dec. 28.The Academy cadets, in town for the Armed Forces Bowl, took time out of their game preparations and holiday vacations to visit the children's

  • Academy's vice superintendent nominated for promotion to brigadier general

    Col. Kevin Lamberth, the vice superintendent of the Air Force Academy, was one of 36 Air Force officers nominated for promotion to brigadier general by the president earlier this month.As the vice superintendent, Lamberth is the Academy's chief operations officer, the executive advisor to the

  • Academy gets Air Force excellence award for 2010 - 2011

    The Air Force selected the Air Force Academy as the recipient of the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for meritorious service during 2010 and 2011.According to Air Force awards documents received by the Academy this month, the Secretary of the Air Force Personnel Council Awards and

  • Air Force marksman keeps cadets on target

    A former cadet visited the Air Force Academy to better prepare its Combat Shooting Team for the U.S. Practical Shooting Association competition, Dec. 6 in Aurora, Colo.The USPSA is the largest competitive pistol shooting organization in the U.S., said 1st Lt. Dalton Bridgers, a member of the Air

  • Gen. Welsh Named 2015 Great American Patriot Award Recipient

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III has been named the 2015 Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl Great American Patriot Award recipient.The Great American Patriot Award honors a candidate in recognition of their exemplary service to the United States."This award is not about me, but honors

  • 3 added to Air Force Academy's Class of '15

    Three officers were added to the Long Blue Line Dec. 16 at the Air Force Academy's fall graduation and commissioning ceremony.The newly minted 2nd Lts. are Joshua Burdge of Manteca, California; Mark Suges of Halton City, Texas; and Lindsay Ebel of Highlands Ranch.Burdge earned a Bachelor of Science

  • Astronaut, Academy grad returns to Earth after 141 days in space

    A 1995 Air Force Academy graduate was one of three astronauts to return to Earth Dec. 11 after a nearly five month mission aboard the International Space Station.Former Academy cadet and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Kimiya Yui of the Japan