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  • Class of 2013: 'Recognition granted'

    Say goodbye to carrying book bags, morning minutes of knowledge recitation, restricted paths on the Terrazzo and wearing uniforms off-base. Say hello to wearing hard-earned prop and wings and acceptance as upperclass cadets for the Class of 2013 during closing ceremonies for this year's Recognition,

  • Academy cadet earns Holaday Scholarship to study at Oxford

    An Air Force Academy cadet recently earned a top-level scholarship that will send him to Exeter College at Oxford University in England for two years of graduate study.Cadet 1st Class Bradford Waldie garnered the Alberta Bart Holaday Scholarship and will study abroad to earn a master's degree in

  • AF's 1st female general officer dies

    The first woman to serve as a major general in the Department of Defense and the Air Force passed away Feb. 15.Retired Maj. Gen. Jeanne M. Holm is credited as the single driving force in achieving parity for military women and making them a viable part of the mainstream military.The Portland, Ore.,

  • Academy chosen among top 100 best-value colleges

    The U.S. Air Force Academy was named as one of the nation's top 100 best value colleges for 2010 today by The Princeton Review Tuesday.The Best Values College List features 50 public and 50 private colleges, which the Princeton Review selected as its "best value" choices based on surveys of

  • Cyberspace leaders hold career panel at Academy

    Senior officers with Air Force Space Command and 24th Air Force held a space and cyberspace career panel in Fairchild Hall's F-1 Auditorium here Monday.The panel gave cadets in attendance a chance to ask the panelists questions about the future of space and cyberspace and how their future careers

  • Cadet Space Club launches 'Roswell II' experiment

    Twelve cadets with the Air Force Academy's Space Club launched a weather balloon experiment Jan. 10, 2010.The experiment included launching the balloon to an altitude of approximately 85,000 feet, tracking the payload using GPS and recovering the payload once it landed.View the slideshow.

  • Cadets brief senior AFSPC, AFRL officials on FalconSAT-5 status

    Air Force Academy cadets briefed the results Dec. 9 of tests conducted on the newest satellite, FalconSAT-5, as well as the current program status for FalconSAT-3 and their next design, FalconSAT-6.Senior officers from the Defense Department's Space Test Program, the Air Force Research Laboratory at

  • Close encounters of the FalconSAT kind

    Satellites from the Air Force Academy and the Department of Energy intentionally passed within 5 kilometers of each other in orbit just after midnight Dec. 13, with one satellite's sensors trained upon the other.The two satellites were the Academy's cadet-built FalconSAT-3 satellite and the Cibola

  • Class of 2009 members to receive commissions

    Seven cadets from the Class of 2009 will earn their commissions and Bachelor of Science degrees during a 10:30 a.m. ceremony in the Arnold Hall Ballroom Dec. 16.Graduating are the following first-class cadets:-- Thomas V. Avolio, from Des Moines, Wash. (Cadet Squadron 21)-- Jordan L. Barber, from

  • HLC releases Academy accreditation report

    The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools released their report on the Air Force Academy's accreditation status Oct. 27 with the official decision to renew the Academy's accreditation for another 10 years.The report culminates years of preparation that