Features

  • Academy Military Trainer uses Self Aid Buddy Care, help 2 in Colo. Springs

    An Academy Military Trainer used his Air Force training to aid two unconscious shoppers in Colorado Springs on Black Friday in November. Tech Sgt. Leslie Cook, an AMT for Cadet Squadron 40 and a prior medical technician, put his Self-Aid Buddy Care knowledge into practice to stabilize a man who

  • Serving their community: USAFA, civilian fire depts. protect El Paso County

    (Editor's note: This is the first in a series of reports highlighting the close tie between Academy emergency responders and their civilian counterparts.) Strong partnerships between the Air Force Academy, Tri-Lakes Monument Fire Protection District and city of Colorado Springs fire departments

  • Academy instructor inspires Afghan children to discover the universe

    During his eight-month deployment to Afghanistan, an Academy officer encouraged schoolchildren to aim high and reach for the stars.Maj. Doug Kaupa, a 1995 Academy graduate and Astronautics Department instructor here, deployed to Kabul from May - December 2013, where he was assigned to U.S. Forces in

  • Academy officer experiences challenges, rewards of deployment

    When Lt. Col. Howard Gentry deployed to Afghanistan in May 2012, he knew he'd be stepping out of his comfort zone -- living and working in a different country, absorbing its culture, learning a new language and, for the next 12 months, watching his one-year-old daughter grow up and say her first

  • Prep school enriches Long Blue line despite shoestring budget

    The Air Force Academy Preparatory School is no stranger to making do with little. That tradition started in a meeting between Gen. William Stone, the Air Force Academy's third superintendent, and Col. Lee Black, the Prep School's first commander. During the meeting, Black asked about the Prep

  • Breaking the code: World War II vet visits cadets, explains enigma of OPSEC

    Barbara Saks celebrated her 96th birthday on Sept. 15 and that occasion, she said to cadets here, took her back in time to her 23rd birthday in 1940 -- the day of a historic, monumental battle known as the Battle of Britain. The World War II code breaker and Colorado Springs resident visited cadets

  • Critical thinking helps cadets ‘make the grade’

    Creating leaders who communicate effectively, think critically and make ethical decisions are goals of every institution of higher learning, and the Air Force's Academy is no exception.This is one reason the Academy holds the annual Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Forum, or STLF, an event