• Academy prepares to pay: Leaders to get billed for energy use

    Starting next month, six senior officials at the Air Force's Academy will have yet another bill to cope with -- a bill detailing the cost and use of their organization's energy. These officials are the leaders of the Academy's mission elements: the Athletic Department, the Cadet Wing, the Dean of

  • USAFA Research center to compete against other service academies

    For the first time, all three service academies will compete to develop the most innovative projects to address challenges warfighters face.Sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research-driven competition will eventually feature three teams from each service academy.The

  • Academy pharmacist receives 2013 Distinguished Practitioner Award

    Upon receiving a Doctor of Pharmacy from Temple University in 2001, three months before 9/11, Maj. Andre Mach was offered a five-year job contract including a $117,000 salary and a BMW 3-series car, yet chose instead to serve in the Air Force.To this day, Mach -- the 10th Medical Support Squadron

  • Developer of AF bystander training speaks at Colo. College

    One of the architects of the Defense Department's bystander intervention training approach to sexual assault prevention spoke about men's violence against women at Colorado College Sept. 18. Members from the Academy's Behavioral Sciences Department were in attendance to listen and learn. Dr. Jackson

  • Dedication, sense of family drive lab's excellence

    Most businesses would envy a 97-percent satisfaction rate, but it's even more amazing for an organization that's in the business of pushing needles into people's veins.Lt. Col. Nathan Johnson, who commands the 10th Medical Support Squadron's Laboratory Flight, said that satisfaction rate is based on

  • Parachuting program helps cadets step through fear

    Second Lt. Glenn Miltenberg can recall the first time he jumped out of an airplane. It's not the sort of experience one is quick to forget: When the side door opens on the UV-18 Twin Otter thousands of feet above the ground, a cadet's next step is a gut-wrenching doozy."I was nervous, but I knew my

  • Academy's command chief: All Airmen critical in producing lieutenants

    Every day at the Academy, more than 1,000 enlisted Airmen play a direct role in preparing thousands of cadets to be exceptional leaders for the Air Force and the nation, said the Academy's top NCO.From the Academy Military Training NCOs who guide and mentor cadets to the NCOs involved with the

  • Academy focuses on suicide prevention

    The Air Force's Academy is committed today to building a community that recognizes Airmen in distress and intervenes appropriately to provide resources, the Commandant Issues Team director said. Knowing Airmen with strong mental, physical, social and spiritual fitness have the ability to withstand,