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  • Cadets perform on America’s Got Talent

    In the Stairwell, the Air Force Academy’s all-male a Capella singing group, performed on NBC’s America’s Got Talent June 13. Show producers saw the group’s fall YouTube broadcast and contacted the Academy.Their video was shown to AGT producers, who picked their favorites and showcased them to NBC

  • An educational milestone: 38 Airmen earn CCAF degrees

    A score of enlisted Airmen at the Air Force Academy proved higher education isn’t just for cadets when they received their Community College of the Air Force degrees June 6.In all, 38 Airmen received CCAFs diplomas or professional certificates at the graduation ceremony in Polaris Hall. Twenty-four

  • Academy Fire Dept to host open house, June 10

    The 10th Civil Engineer Fire Department will host an open house 11 a.m.-2 p.m. June 10 at Fire Station No. 1, 6202 Pine Drive.Families, faculty and staff at the Air Force Academy, and Defense Department ID card-holders, are invited.The event will feature fire rescue demonstrations, a weapon and

  • Academy wins 1st CASTLE Classic golf tournament

    The Air Force Academy reigned victorious with an 18-13 win against Fort Carson in the inaugural CASTLE Classic golf tournament May 26 at Cheyenne Shadows Golf Club.  The tournament was set up as a team-scramble event where two-person teams compete against each other, with one point awarded to each

  • Prep School graduates 194 cadet-candidates

    One-hundred-ninety-four cadet-candidates graduated from the Air Force Academy Preparatory School during a ceremony May 18.  Of those graduates, 186 received appointments to the Academy. The cadet-candidates completed the school’s 10-month curriculum, designed to prepare them to succeed and lead at

  • Cadets take home individual awards

    More than 100 cadets at the Air Force Academy received awards for their academic, athletic and airmanship talents, May 22 in Clune Arena.Lt. Col. Robert Callihan, an Academy faculty member at the event, said the awards recognize individual cadets for their achievements in academics, athletics and

  • Academy teams-up with NASCAR for summer internship

    Two engineering majors at the Air Force Academy will get in high gear this summer with NASCAR. Cadets 2nd Class Alexander Hill and Karl Sapper are scheduled to join Richard Petty Motorsports in Mooresville, North Carolina, for a six week summer internship and use their talents to improve the

  • Dozens of Class of '17 grads bound for grad school

    Dozens of Air Force Academy Class of 2017 graduates are slated to return to the classroom now that they've graduated.Ninety-three graduates are scheduled to attend grad school after receiving bachelor degrees and commissions as second lieutenants at the May 24 graduation ceremony at Falcon

  • 17 Academy NCOs selected for E-7 promotion

    Seventeen NCOs at the Air Force Academy are probably in a pretty good mood today because the Air Force selected them for promotion to master sergeant.  Master sergeant is the first rank of the Air Force’s senior noncommissioned tier and transitions technical sergeants from their duties as

  • Gen. Dunford to Class of ‘17 grads: ‘It’s time to lead’

    The U.S. military’s senior officer welcomed nearly 1,000 new second lieutenants into the officer corps May 24 during the Air Force Academy’s Class of 2017 graduation ceremony at Falcon Stadium.  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford encouraged the new officers to be