Commentaries

  • Air Force Academy energy research will yield global benefits

    "I am Air Force Energy" is more than just a catchphrase at the Air Force Academy. Those words, provided by Air Force Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Dr. Kevin Geiss as the theme for Energy Awareness Month, resonates at the Air Force Academy, whose faculty are innovating across the spectrum of

  • Forged in fire

    Paula and I simply couldn't be more proud of all the members of our Air Force Academy team for the selfless and dedicated manner in which the team handled last week's Waldo Canyon Fire crisis! Col. Tim Gibson and the entire 10th Air Base Wing leadership team stepped up to face what was arguably the

  • Team USAFA stands together during crisis

    Team USAFA,The past few days have been an experience like no other that will no doubtleave a lasting impression on our lives. We have witnessed our neighbors to the south suffer devastating losses as aresult of the Waldo Canyon fire, tens of thousands of people have beendisplaced from their homes,

  • Lorenz on Leadership: Passing the baton of service to the next generation

    On May 7, a friend and classmate, retired Lt. Col. Doug Dick, passed away after a six-year battle fighting cancer. Doug was commissioned in 1973, and after graduating from the Air Force Academy, he went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from UCLA. Following pilot training at Craig Air

  • Identity theft: What everyone should know

    Looking at my account balance made me sick to my stomach. The numbers in red print on my bank account ledger indicated I was more than $3,000 in the red. I let out a growl and sank in my chair, not knowing how much more of this nightmare I had to endure.My identity had been stolen, and no matter how

  • Mental injuries, illnesses are killers

    What would you do if you suffered a broken leg tomorrow? Chances are, you would go to an emergency room, see a doctor, have your leg x-rayed and placed in a cast and get a set of crutches. You wouldn't be back to 100 percent right away, but you could at least function.Now, what would you do if you

  • Celebrating King's legacy

    As a people and as a nation, we have come a long way since the civil rights movement of the early 1960s. King would be proud. But at the same time, we have not yet achieved the point he devoted his life to help our society reach. One of the most significant speeches in our nation's history was the

  • Cadet reflects on King legacy

    On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech, where he expressed hope that one day he would see "little black boys and black girls ... able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

  • Why building Falcon Circle was 'right thing to do'

    Why did the Air Force Academy build an "outdoor Stonehenge" worship area for just a handful of cadets?That's the question some have asked Air Force Academy officials after the Los Angeles Times' Nov. 26 article citing an $80,000 price tag for the Cadet Chapel Falcon Circle: an outdoor worship area

  • Pearl Harbor Day reminds us: Remember, honor WWII veterans

    When I visited my grandparents the weekend after Sept. 11, 2001, I remember my late grandmother, Clara Hix Clifford, saying to me, "I never thought I'd see something like this again in my lifetime."By "again," she was referring to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese -- a