Tag: Air Force Academy
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Impending government shutdown could affect thousands of local troops, federal employees
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 12:01 a.m. Sunday, many government operations will come to a…
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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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Air Force Academy senior wins Miss Colorado competition
An Air Force Academy senior is the newest Miss Colorado. Madison Marsh, an Arkansas native and reigning Miss Academy, was crowned on Saturday after beating out about 20 local pageant winners for the title. It was Marsh’s third entry in the state competition. Marsh, who will graduate from the academy on Thursday, said her coaches…
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Some Colorado 14ers have closed after legal wrangle. What might be next?
Owners of properties where Coloradans hike and play in the outdoors had hoped to feel better about allowing that access after a hearing this month at the state Capitol. Instead, some are feeling more worried than ever. That includes Patrick Schilken, who has long held land along the base of 14,000-foot Mount Sherman in Park…
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Military, conservation groups eyeing 75,000-plus acres on Colorado Springs outskirts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs military installations and leading conservation groups are set to embark on a multi-year mission intended to achieve operational buffers for those installations and simultaneously realize a new vision of open space on the city’s peripheries. The unique arrangement was recently cleared by the…
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2022 Air Force Academy graduation and Thunderbirds air show: Live video and updates
It’s graduation day Wednesday at the Air Force Academy’s Falcon Stadium, where more than 1,000 cadets become officers. Can’t see the video at the top of this article? Go to this link: https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast UPDATES 12:15 p.m. The graduation ceremony is completed. 9:45 a.m.: The cadets have arrived! #USAFA2022. Here we go! pic.twitter.com/kyatRt61zo — U.S. Air Force Academy…
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EDITORIAL: State board declares ‘Thunderbirds’ a crime
Don’t look up unless you’re a racist. The Air Force Thunderbirds thundered over Colorado Springs on Monday and Tuesday in preparation for the annual F-16 air show Wednesday after the Air Force Academy graduation. The show is so grandiose it draws people from around the country. It is a display of our culture’s commitment to…
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Hotel building boom underway in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One of the Colorado Springs area’s biggest waves of hotel construction in the last quarter century will add three-dozen new properties and more than 4,100 rooms over the next two years, including a high-profile downtown hotel set to open this week. A healthy economy and…
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Sexual assault reports at Air Force Academy highest in at least 16 years
The Air Force Academy had its highest number of reported sexual assaults in at least 16 years, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday. The Department of Defense annual report on sexual harassment and violence at the military’s service academies for the 2020-2021 academic year shows the Air Force Academy atop the nation’s two other…