Tag: Air Force Academy
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Censorship concerns: As Air Force Academy reviews books for removal, group forms to push back
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As library staff at service academies and war colleges review books for removal under a Department of Defense directive, a new group is starting to push back on what they perceive as censorship at libraries serving military members and their families. Castle Rock resident Kelly…
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Transgender Air Force Academy cadets graduate, but not commissioned amid Trump’s ban
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Three transgender senior cadets earned their diplomas from the Air Force Academy on Thursday, but they did not commission as officers with their peers. Hunter Marquez is among the three, earning degrees in aeronautical engineering and applied math and meeting the Air Force’s physical standards…
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‘Life can be good again’: Local program brings healing to vets, military families through animal therapy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Gillian Sirles came to the Remount Foundation nine years ago, she had survived multiple suicide attempts. Sitting on a picnic table outside the horse stables at the Air Force Academy, Sirles recounts her story of survival. Decades earlier, the Navy welder was discharged for…
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A six-step plan for keeping Space Command in Colorado | Vince Bzdek
Two short months and a lifetime ago, U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs celebrated its fifth birthday after expanding from “a rag-tag band of about 100 people” when it was reestablished in 2019 to a fully operational headquarters employing 1,700 people today. This week, the Command looks to be at risk of interrupting operations and…
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Air Force coach Troy Calhoun to face Oregon State team he was ‘forced’ to support as Oregon native
The way Troy Calhoun describes it, he grew up in Roseburg, Ore., with something of an arranged marriage when it comes to the college football team he supported. “I didn’t have a choice,” said the Air Force football coach, whose preference for Oregon State while growing up was preordained by his parents and proximity. “My…
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Motherhood wasn’t part of the mission for first Black female fighter pilot, until it was
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rochelle Kimbrell knew by fourth grade what she wanted to do with her life, and spent the next 15 years on a trail-blazing trajectory of singular purpose. For the first Black female fighter pilot in the history of the U.S. Air Force, becoming a mother…
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Polo comes home: The sport is reborn in Colorado Springs, where it once thrived
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Cynthia Leonard has been sifting through yellowed pages of brochures, reading the fading ink of newspapers and collecting grainy photos — all of it helping to paint the picture of a sport’s heyday in Colorado Springs. Here in the 1920s, some of the nation’s top…
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On rebounding: How Air Force’s Jayda McNabb overcame long childhood odds and learned to seize opportunities
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Remove basketball from the equation, and Jayda McNabb’s life story remains all about rebounding. McNabb, an Air Force freshman, leads the Mountain West Conference in offensive rebounds (90) and ranks 18th nationally. Listed generously at 5-foot-10, she’s the shortest player on that leaderboard. The thing…
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Impending government shutdown could affect thousands of local troops, federal employees
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The end of the 2023 fiscal year is rapidly approaching, and with it, the increasing possibility of a government shutdown as Congress remains at an impasse on a federal budget. If members of Congress cannot agree on the appropriation bills that fund federal agencies before…
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Biden urges Air Force Academy graduates to ‘meet the moment’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Under partially cloudy skies at Falcon Stadium, President Joe Biden on Thursday highlighted various world threats from the conflict in Ukraine to increasingly damaging natural disasters that 921 Air Force Academy graduates will face as future military leaders. Biden noted the world “genuinely needs” them…