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  • Air officer commanding leads cadets to new heights

    Air Force leaders have said that diversity makes our nation and the Air Force stronger, and one Air Force Academy instructor lives that truth every day.Maj. Elaine Bryant is the Air Officer Commanding for Cadet Squadron 24, where she's responsible for developing and mentoring cadets to be officers

  • Colorado Springs bird watchers meet the Falcons

    Have falcon, will travel.Two cadets hit the road Sept. 21 to meet with attendees at an Aiken Audubon Society meeting in Colorado Springs and talk about the Air Force Academy's falconry program. Along with them was Destiny, a gray gyrfalcon. Cadet falconers conduct roughly 200 presentations per year,

  • Chilton family continues tradition of service

    One of the Air Force Academy's senior officers will mark her 30th year of service to the Air Force next month, while her daughter prepares to become a fourth-generation Airman. Brig. Gen. Cathy Chilton is the mobilization assistant to Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould, the daughter of an

  • Air Force quarterback enrolled to serve nation after 9/11

    When Osama bin Laden sent his minions and more than 2,900 others to their deaths on Sept. 11, 2001, he unwittingly picked a fight with an Atlanta seventh-grader named Tim Jefferson.The young man who had harbored a nearly lifelong dream of becoming a pilot just didn't know that yet. In Atlanta, as

  • Warriors' worries melt thanks to therapy that fulfills 'need for steed'

    Quoting Winston Churchill is one of the most surefire ways to draw attention to something. The Warrior Wellness Program run by the Air Force Academy Equestrian Center can vouch for that assertion. A flier promoting the program shares Churchill's musing that "the outside of a horse is good for the

  • At the Air Force Academy, honor is a way of life

    Not long ago, two residents of Colorado Springs wrote a letter of thanks to Academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould praising two cadets -- Cadets 2nd Class Ashley Bartmas and Tara Harris -- for returning an MP3 player that their daughter had lost while visiting the Academy. "Here are two ladies

  • Soldiers prepare for deployment by training cadets

    Soldiers with the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), based at Fort Carson, Colo., will soon deploy to Africa, where they will train foreign service members in how to defend their nations' borders. Before they left, however, their leaders wanted to hone the younger Soldiers' skills as instructors,

  • Academy cadet lauded for 'quick fix' on deployed B-1B

    One of the Air Force Academy's goals, set by Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould in the third year of his tenure, is to contribute to winning the wars in the Middle East. One cadet here has helped the Academy make a head start, Gould revealed during a superintendent's call here Aug. 2.Cadet 1st Class

  • Summer program introduces cadets to space

    The Air Force Academy's summer space program isn't as exciting as, say, jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. However, their 10-day program aims to teach cadets how much of their everyday lives and their future military careers rely on the Air Force's space mission.Few of the rising sophomores

  • Engineering camp attracts, inspires students

    How do you get middle- and high-school students interested in engineering? Get them to build a water balloon-launching catapult.The Air Force Academy and the Society of American Military Engineers held their 12th-annual engineering and construction camp in Jacks Valley June 24-30, using exercises