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  • Supt.'s Call: Lt. Gen. Johnson speaks on accomplishments, challenges

    Air Force Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle D. Johnson discussed budgetary uncertainties and the essence of the Air Force Academy's mission during a series of Superintendent's calls in Arnold Hall Jan. 7.A decline of $53.5 million in the Academy's budget from fiscal year 2013 to FY 2014, and

  • Air Force football team has 42 on Dean's List

    The Air Force football team had 42 team members earn Dean's List honors for academic excellence for the fall 2013 semester. Cadets must earn a 3.0 grade point average or higher to make the Dean's List."Our players work extraordinarily hard to earn the world's finest education at the Air Force

  • USAFA tax center to open in Feb.

    The Academy's Tax Center is scheduled to offer Academy Airmen and their families free tax preparation services in February. Taxes will be prepared by appointment only, 8-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m., Mondays and Fridays. This service will be open to income eligible active duty Academy service members,

  • Wings of Blue win big at national competition

    The Air Force Academy's Wings of Blue parachute team took home 33 medals at the National Collegiate Parachute Competition, Dec. 27-Jan. 2 in Lake Wells, Fla. Earning nine gold, 16 silver, and eight bronze medals, the team received the highest point total at the competition, making it the collegiate

  • Academy counselors available to help with life's challenges

    Academy Military Family Life counselors offer free and flexible short-term counseling with no strings attached. The four Academy MFLCs can meet with service members, their families, Defense Department civilians, or cadets on or off-base to provide situational, problem-solving counseling support and

  • Searching for the sound: Academy cadet researchers work to end bird strikes

    A group of Academy cadets has flocked together and come up with a noisy proposition: using loud sound to decrease the changes of a bird strike on a plane during takeoff and landing.A bird strike or "BASH" - Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard -- is a collision between an airborne animal and an aircraft, and

  • USAFA adds 5 to 'Long Blue Line'

    The U.S. Air Force's Academy added five new graduates to the "Long Blue Line' Wednesday morning during the fall semester graduation and commissioning ceremony in Arnold Hall.At the ceremony, David Baska, Spencer Boone, Christopher De La Torre, Adetunji Fisayo and Kaleb Jenkins received their

  • Cadet wins top scholarship

    A senior cadet here was recently awarded one of the most prestigious scholarships bestowed to U.S. college students each year, allowing him to study in England for two years after he graduates from the Academy next spring. Cadet 1st Class Brad Hackert from Thomaston, Conn., was named one of the 2014

  • Cadets hold 'awesome' Scout aviation workshop

    Temperatures here never climbed above 10 degrees Dec. 7, but that didn't matter to young Cameron Baker, one of several Boy Scouts who attended an aviation workshop put together by cadets in Cadet Squadron 17.While most people remarked that it was cold outside, Baker "came back in and said it was

  • USAFA Physics Dept. expands Falcon Telescope network to La Junta

    Researchers at the Air Force Academy 's Department of Physics Center for Space Situational Awareness Research now have new university partners around the globe, thanks to a project combining satellite and educational outreach.Otero Junior College is the first of 12 partners to build an observatory