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  • Remembering ‘Maj. V’: OSI, cadets celebrate life of Academy grad

    Cadets and Air Force investigators celebrated the life of a graduate killed last year in Afghanistan, Nov. 12 at the Air Force Academy.   Maj. Adrianna Vorderbruggen was one of four Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents and two security forces Airmen killed in a Dec. 21 suicide

  • Jabara Award goes to fighter pilot

    Maj. Matthew Kuta, a 2005 Air Force Academy graduate and fighter pilot, was awarded the 2016 Col. James Jabara Award for Airmanship Nov. 9 at the Academy.Kuta was nominated for the award earlier this year by Brig. Gen. Mark Slocum, director of U.S. Air Forces in Europe-United Kingdom, for his heroic

  • ‘Airmen are the best defense,’ Col. Dunn says at all call

    Col. Troy Dunn, commander of the 10th Air Base Wing, hosted an all call in front of a full house Nov. 4 in Arnold Hall. Along with thanking the 3,000 Total Force Airmen assigned to the wing’s 11 squadrons and two staff agencies and their families, he praised the positive results of the Defense

  • Cadet exchange program combines talents, opportunities

    The saying goes "to truly know someone, you must walk a mile in their shoes" but until recently, Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Air Force Academy cadets had little crossover in their paths to becoming Airmen. The AFROTC Exchange program gives cadets on both sides an opportunity to

  • ‘For the bulls’: CS-06 wins Commandant’s Challenge

    Cadet Squadron 06 won the Commandant’s Challenge Trophy Oct. 29 at the Air Force Academy.  Cadet 1st Class Jack Corriere, CS-06 commander, chalked-up the win to the squadron’s dedication to its motto, “For the Bulls.” “It means in everything we do, we do for each other and the squadron,” he

  • Academy’s command chief gets ready for ‘new adventure’

    Chief Master Sgt. Max Grindstaff, the command chief at the Air Force Academy, capped-off his 30 year Air Force career with a friendly invite to the family and friends attending his retirement ceremony, Oct. 27 in Polaris Hall. “We’ll take some selfies and we’ll eat some cake … Tomorrow is a new

  • Deployed Ops: Cadet gets lesson in leadership in Middle East

    Cadet 2nd Class Susan Kwon, a geospatial science major from Cupertino, California, returned this summer from a three-week stay at an Air Base in the Middle East. The trip was part of the Air Force Academy’s Deployed Operations Program, which sends sophomore and junior cadets to overseas units to see

  • Energy Action Month update: Academy reduces utility bill by $1 million

    Energy experts at the Air Force Academy said due to an increasing awareness of energy conservation and cost-saving measures, the school’s utility bill plummeted by $1 million in the 2016 fiscal year.   The energy bill for the 2016 fiscal year was just above $6 million and hovered around $7 million

  • 1st Sergeants’ Council gets ready for Harvest Share

    Airmen might find an unexpected present on their doorstep next month, courtesy of the First Sergeants’ Council.   The council is prepping for Harvest Share, a program to assist lower-income families on base during the holidays, said Master Sgt. Kyle Capehart, the Academy command staff’s first

  • 10th CES firefighters to compete in championship

    First responders at the Air Force Academy are gearing up for the Firefighter World Championship next week in Montgomery, Alabama. The annual competition pits firefighters from around the world against each other in a series of timed trials, including a five-story tower climb and hoisting a 175-pound