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  • Warriors Way: A Cadet's Journey

    Gotta, Gotta, Gotta win! Can't Stop! Won't Stop! Air Force!This is the rallying cry of the Air Force Wounded Warrior wheelchair basketball team. And for Ohio University ROTC Cadet Matthew Pirrello, age 20, it describes his journey over the last year to overcome an injury that changed his life. In

  • Airmen donate time to local ReStore

    The Habitat for Humanity ReStore sits at the corner of Costilla Street and Wahsatch Avenue near downtown Colorado Springs. It accepts donations of construction materials from local retailers, contractors and individuals and sells those goods at a good discount to shoppers. Someone, however, has to

  • Academy Airmen help carry Air Force basketball teams to victory

    The all-Air Force men's and women's teams took different paths to victory in the Armed Forces Basketball Tournament at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 17. The men's team, which had several former Air Force Falcons on its roster, destroyed its competition, sweeping its way to an

  • Sisterhood of support, and the traveling BDU’s

    Cadet 4th Class Moranda Hern has so many sisters that she gets to talk to all of them only sporadically.That's what happens, though, when your sisterhood is actually an organization. Cadet Hern is the co-founder of the Sisterhood of the Traveling BDUs, a nonprofit that provides support to girls ages

  • Past, Present, Future; Academy Cyber Warfare

    Teams around the nation battling in cyberspace sounds like the plot of a Hollywood summer blockbuster, but for a team of students at the Air Force Academy this week it's just class work. Sponsored by the National Security Agency, the 11th Annual Cyber Defense Exercise took place April 18 -21,

  • Security Forces Airmen advise Afghan counterparts on base security

    Since 1943, security forces Airmen have toed the line of defence for U.S. Air Force bases in America and abroad, and sometimes in hostile environments.Helping to build capability similar to that of the U.S. Air Force security forces, airmen deploy on six-month rotations to Shindand Air Base, Herat

  • 100s Night 2011: File under "All in good fun"

    While the members of the Air Force Academy's Class of 2011 were spending their 100s Night finding out where they'll call home after graduation, their campus "homes" were being lovingly trashed by four-degrees.If afterward the seniors' dorm rooms looked like they had been the scene of a tornado

  • Air Base Wing welcomes 1st command chief

    Chief Master Sgt. David Staton is used to turning Airmen into professional leaders: he's done it throughout much of his career, from multiple tours as a military training instructor to five first sergeant positions and a year-long deployment to build the Afghan air force's enlisted corps. Now he'll

  • Blue Steel reaches out to America's youth through music

    The Air Force Academy Band's Blue Steel Rock Group hosted a youth concert Sunday at Arnold Hall, featuring the Cadet Orchestra and two youth symphony orchestras.While combining a rock band with a symphony orchestra may seem like an unusual pairing, Blue Steel has been successfully working to reach

  • Enlisted AFA instructor gives cadets perspective, shatters stereotypes

    The Cadet Wing has rarely seen the likes of Tech. Sgt. Romney Scheirer.Thanks to her master's degree, the enlisted Airman now serves on the faculty at the Air Force Academy. That is a highly unusual combination, and Sergeant Scheirer knows it. Cadets in her leadership class are gaining a new