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  • 10th MDG honors new mural's completion

    The role of the combat medic traces back to the American Revolution. Since then, combat medics' courageous actions have saved countless lives. In the face of danger, with an utter disregard for their own well being, combat medics treat and stabilize the wounded until they can be medically

  • Academy command chief returns to roots

    Author John Ed Pearce once wrote, "Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to." While the Air Force Academy's top enlisted Airman is by no means old, home is where he plans to return after he retires in a ceremony June 5. Chief Master Sgt. Arvin Davis, a native

  • Healthy futures in store for children

    Academy youngsters are getting a jump start on a life-long healthy lifestyle -- and having fun doing it -- through the Fit for the Future, Meet Me in the Park program. Twice a week children and parents gather at housing area parks for two hours of outdoor games, play and socialization. The program,

  • Live from Afghanistan: Father promotes son via video teleconference

    Can you hear me, Dad? ... Pop, can ya hear?" "Loud and clear." And just like that, from halfway across the world, Lt. Col. Steven Black, chief of nutritional medicine at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, was ready to promote his son, 1st Lt. Travis Black, Materiel Management Flight commander, 87th

  • Cultural immersion in the Land of the Rising Sun

    Yumiko Guajardo has reason to be pleased about the cultural and language immersion program. She and a group of cadets recently returned to the Air Force Academy from a stay in the island nation, during which cadets visited major cities as well as smaller communities such as Wakayama, a small town on

  • Get Out and Go: Cripple Creek or Bust!

    In 1892 a wandering cattleman fell into a small stream in Teller County and broke his leg. A nearby miner heard his shouts for help, and while aiding the injured cattleman, he, too, fell in the stream and broke a leg. The miner was purported to cry out, "Well, ain't that a Cripple Creek!" The name

  • Class of 2013 learns basics during BCT

    "Sit up straight." "Put your heels together." "Put your hands on your knees." Sitting up straight on the bus to the Hill may be the first order incoming basic cadets receive during their Academy and subsequent operational Air Force days, but, without doubt it, won't be the last. During in-processing

  • Stripes run in chief's family

    The newest addition to the Air Force Academy family grew up living and breathing the Air Force as the son of a chief master sergeant. He would later become the son-in-law of a chief, and in 2005, he became a command chief in his own right. Now the top enlisted Airman at the Academy, Chief Master

  • China trip creates lasting impressions

    A former Academy chemistry department deputy accompanied cadets on a 16-day visit to the middle kingdom last month. Maj. Patrick Castle escorted Cadets 2nd Class Megan Biles, Jennifer Ebert, Sean Long and Alexander Paladino as part of a joint venture between the Academy Marathon Club and the Great

  • Horsin' around: 2009 Girl of the West visits Academy

    It's not very often that horseplay is allowed on the Terazzo, but that's exactly what happened when the 2009 Girl of the West and her aide visited the Academy Monday with horses Whisper and Classy China. April Biernat, the Girl of the West, and Jessica Greene, the aide to the Girl of the West, made