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  • 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

  • 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