Author: Mary Shinn
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Bipartisan amendment may keep planes at Buckley Space Force Base
Buckley Space Force Base could get reassurance in next year’s defense budget that its fleet of F-16s will be replaced. The base has some of the oldest F-16s in the Air Force at a time when the service is looking to eliminate older, maintenance hungry planes to modernize. However, this summer a bipartisan slate of…
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American defector to North Korea had loose ties to Fort Carson, Colorado Springs
The U.S. soldier who fled into North Korea on Tuesday had loose ties to the 4th Infantry Division based in Colorado Springs. Pvt. 2nd Class Travis King, a cavalry scout, traveled to South Korea with the 1st Brigade Combat Team within the 1st Armored Division based in Fort Bliss, Texas. He was then administratively attached…
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Army, Air Force racing to address recruitment; both projected to fall short as eligibility and interest fall
As the Air Force and Army brace to miss recruiting goals this year, both branches are making changes to help address long-term problems of dropping interest and eligibility to serve. Last year the Army missed its recruiting goal by 25% and doesn’t expect to hit it this year, either, although it is doing statistically better…
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Colorado Gators rebuilding after April fire
A manager of Colorado Gators and Reptile Park in Alamosa thought she was pulling a dead tortoise from the wreckage of a burned building where more than 100 animals died in April. But Thing 4, a red-footed tortoise, had survived the fire by burrowing under another exhibit in the reptile barn and poked his head…
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Colorado boosts funding to bolster fire investigation, identify cause of more fires across the state
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Investigators have never found the causes of some of the largest and most destructive fires in Colorado history, including the Black Forest fire, a trend state officials hope to change with more staff. Finding the cigarettes, shell casings or other telltale signs of a fire’s…
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Biden urges Air Force Academy graduates to ‘meet the moment’
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 at this inflection point in history and despite all the…
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Phone apps for the battlefield: Soldiers test new system featuring real-time mapping, chat
BEMOWO PISKIE, Poland • Inside a tank with explosions on all sides, knowing allied soldiers and not enemies are coming up beside you can save lives. In Poland last week, the 2nd Calvary Regiment tried out a new system for ensuring that allies from multiple nations all have the same real-time map of the battlefield…
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2 injured in Divide plane crash Monday afternoon
A plane crashed in Grandview Estates in Divide Monday afternoon, injuring a pilot and a passenger, according to the Teller County Sheriff’s Office. The two were taken to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, the office said on Facebook. The pilot of the four-seater Cessna Skyhawk from 1961, based on its tail number, “indicated there was engine…
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Investigation launched into Space Command delay, changed plans for building
The House Armed Services Committee is launching an investigation into the delay around a decision on a permanent home for Space Command and changes to the requirements for a future headquarters. The permanent home of Space Command, currently in Colorado Springs, has been a contested issue for two years since President Donald Trump announced it…