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  • USAFA hosts Front Range Cycling Classic

    The Falcons Cycling Team hosted racers from 13 colleges and 33 amateur and professional teams for the annual Front Range Cycling Classic here last weekend. Races started early Saturday with collegiate team time trials, a four-person event pitting each team against the clock on a 10-mile course,

  • Home Run! USAFA baseball team visits patients at California hospital

    Falcon Baseball players took a detour during their spring road trip last month to visit patients at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Sacramento, Calif. The team stopped by the hospital March 24 before competing in a warm-up series against the Sacramento State Hornets. "The chance to visit the

  • Academy cadets work to patent aeronautic advances

    Back in 2012, Lt. Col. A.J. Rolling, assistant aeronautics professor, challenged cadets: take two ideas and turn them into inventions, with patents pending, by the end of the semester. The cadets succeeded, and now the current crop of aerospace majors is busy developing prototypes of patent-pending

  • Falcon football tackles violence prevention training

    Last week, Academy football players participated in a new training initiative that will help them become better leaders on and off the field and to take a stand against sexual assault. Approximately 60 cadets, football coaches and staff participated in the Mentor in Violence Prevention program April

  • Academy, Association of Graduates recognizes distinguished grads

    Two Academy graduates were presented the Association of Graduates' Distinguished Graduate Award April 4 at Mitchell Hall during the Founders Day celebration.Recipients for 2013, A. Bart Holaday, Class of 1965, and retired Gen. William "Bill" Looney III., Class of 1972, were honored for their

  • Prep School fitness program targets improvement

    A new program was set in motion earlier this year to assist Prep School cadet candidates improve their physical fitness test score.The supplemental fitness program is a three-day-per-week program designed to help cadet candidates struggling to pass the Academy's cadet PFT."The program has been

  • Academy nurse receives Nightingale luminary award

    The 10th Medical Group's Anesthesia Element Chief was one of six luminaries recently recognized for the 2014 Florence Nightingale Award for Leadership in Clinical Innovation during a banquet in Colorado Springs. Maj. Adeleke Oyemade, a certified registered nurse anesthetist and flight nurse here,

  • USAFA, city combines for joint FEMA exercise

    First responders from the Academy, Colorado Springs and El Paso County convened in Colorado Springs late last month for a four-day emergency management course tailored to meet the emergency management needs of the community.The Federal Emergency Management Agency-training included several scenarios:

  • Academy seeks savings through mock energy bill program

    The Air Force Academy's Installations and Mission Support Directorate will send out a second round of mock utility bills in April to raise units' awareness about their energy use.The first round of bills, sent to mission elements here in February, breaks down how facilities across the base spent