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  • Humility at heart of superintendent's career

    Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson remembers where she came from.Before she was a she was a Rhodes Scholar, she was a cadet. Before she was one of Air Force's top-scoring women's basketball players, she played at a high school in the northwest corner of Iowa. And before all of that,

  • Academy supt. reflects on career, retirement

    Lt. Gen. Mike Gould, the Academy's 18th superintendent, will retire next week after serving his country for 37 years as an Air Force officer. Gould, a 1976 Academy graduate and 1972 Prep School graduate, tackled many rewarding Air Force opportunities during his nearly four decades of service,

  • Couple recalls Academy firefighters' role in saving home

    The Black Forest Fire claimed nearly 500 homes between June 11, when it started, and June 20, when it was fully contained. Colorado National Guard Lt. Col. Mitch Utterback dubbed it "the Battle of Black Forest." Driving north on Peregrine Way toward Jeff and Elizabeth Miller's Black Forest house

  • Academy 'steps up' to fitness, inspiration on Stairway to Heaven

    Behind the Academy's Preparatory School trails a steep, wooden stairway leading down to Pine Drive Academy members, cadets and cadet candidates' use as a route to fitness.In just 0.14 of a mile, hikers ascend or descend 211 feet by trekking 300-plus steps, known as the "Stairway to Heaven," getting

  • Conquered: 3 Academy graduates scale world's tallest peak

    Reaching the top of the world's tallest mountain was the most all-encompassing, incredible endeavor one Academy officer has undertaken. Capt. Marshall Klitzke, an instructor pilot with the 557th Flying Training Squadron here, was away for 58 days, shed 28 pounds and trekked more than 44,000 feet to

  • Cadets turn theory into practice in field engineering lab

    Cadets have been working in the hot sun, using their hands to put their engineering expertise into practice.More than 50 junior cadets from the Academy, four from the Naval Academy and five from the U.S. Military Academy started their three-week Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory training

  • Lancaster, Pa., native wins Schulte character, leadership award

    A native of Lancaster, Pa., was awarded the 1st Lt. Roslyn Schulte Cadet Character and Leadership Award during a ceremony at McDermott Library May 28.Cadet 1st Class Esther Willett received a gold and silver medallion for her outstanding contributions to the Academy's Center for Character and

  • Cadet-designed trailer could power future austere deployments

    A cadet capstone project designed to build upon cadets' research in 2012 could have broad-ranging applications from powering austere bases to supplementing stateside bases' power grids, instructors in the Computer and Electrical Engineering Department said May 22.The project, a solar- and

  • Warrior Games 2013: Airman fights to overcome 'invisible wounds'

    By looking at him, you would never be able to tell he is a battle-tested, combat-injured Airman. He is a testament to invisible wounds and just how their effects can become visible in everyday life.Capt. Mitchell Kieffer is a mathematician at heart and an operations research analyst at Joint Base