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  • Coming Soon: Annual National Character and Leadership Symposium

    The 22nd Annual National Character and Leadership Symposium takes place at the Air Force Academy Feb. 26-27 and will feature distinguished leaders and scholars from across the country.The two-day event includes 50 diverse discussion panels and individual speakers, including Chief Master Sergeant of

  • Cadet candidates lead Prep School's 'It's On Us' pledge

    A group of 13 Academy Preparatory School students and senior leaders took the "It's On Us" pledge during a presentation in the Community Center Theater here Feb. 3.The pledge commits the Prep School's student and faculty leaders to create an environment that does not tolerate sexual assault and that

  • Academy ranks among nation's best value colleges

    The Academy was ranked as one of the nation's 200 best value colleges by The Princeton Review Feb. 3.The announcement came in the release of The Princeton Review's "Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Best Value Colleges and What It Takes to Get In - 2015 Edition" book. The book and associated

  • Academy tentatively names new athletic director

    A former deputy and interim director of the U.S. Military Academy's athletic department has been tentatively named as the Air Force Academy's next athletic director, officials at the Academy announced Jan. 6.James Knowlton, previously the director of athletics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in

  • DOD releases 2015 military pay, compensation rates

    The Defense Department announced the 2015 military pay and compensation rates for service members Dec. 22, with most service members receiving a 1 percent increase in basic pay.The new rates for basic pay, basic allowance for housing (BAH), basic allowance for subsistence (BAS), and the cost of

  • Falcons slide past Broncos for Potato Bowl title

    A dominant running game and strong linebacker play carried the Air Force Academy to a 38-24 victory over Western Michigan in the rain-soaked Famous Idaho Potato Bowl Dec. 20.Four quarters of steady rain made for a wet and saturated field, turning the blue artificial turf into a gigantic water slide

  • Panel prepares cadets for ROTC exchange

    Three cadets who will take part in a first-of-its-kind Air Force ROTC exchange program next semester sat down Dec. 4 with cadets who came to the Air Force Academy with ROTC experience to discuss what they could expect when they arrive.Cadets 2nd Class Ben Goirigolzarri, Caitlon Faimon and Matt

  • Long Blue Line' gets longer with winter graduation

    Four new officers were added to the Long Blue Line Dec. 17 at the Academy's fall graduation and commissioning ceremony here.The new Air Force 2nd Lt.'s are Aaron Hall of Duncanville, Texas; Adam McMurray of Huntsville, Ala.; Christopher Morales of Rio Rancho, N.M.; and Michael Husar, Jr. of

  • Dig in, discuss: Cadets weigh-in on Brown, Garner cases

    The evening before the last day of classes, cadets and Academy staff gathered at the Falcon Center to unpack their thoughts and questions surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y - two unarmed black men killed by white police officers this

  • Former Academy director of faculty research receives Harold Brown Award

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James presented Dr. Donald Erbschloe, the Air Mobility Command chief scientist, with the 2014 Harold Brown Award during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Dec. 9.The Harold Brown Award, established in December of 1968 as a tribute to Dr. Harold Brown, the eighth