Tag: Air Force Academy
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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
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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 about rebounding is that its very nature hints at a…
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Newly-crowned Miss America encourages students at Colorado school: ‘You can do all of it … and more’
Students at a Colorado Springs elementary school got the chance to meet and speak with the newly-crowned Miss America on Wednesday. Air Force 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh, the first active-duty service member to don the Miss America crown, stopped by Jackson Elementary School to visit classrooms and speak at an assembly. Marsh, who graduated from the…
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Air Force Academy graduate and Miss Colorado wins Miss America
Air Force Academy graduate and Miss Colorado Madison Marsh won Miss America Sunday night, making her the first active-duty Air Force officer to hold the title. Marsh said in a previous interview with The Gazette that while some might see a conflict between military service and pageantry, the values of education, leadership and service are…
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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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As sexual assaults rise, Air Force Academy needs to stop freshmen hazing, DOD report finds
Following a rise in reported sexual assaults across the military academies, Pentagon staff visited and evaluated all the schools, finding that the Air Force Academy needs to make changes to stop hazing among cadets and that freshman cadets feel the school has a prison-like environment. While military environments need to be stressful to build resilience,…
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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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NEWS | 2023 U.S. Air Force Academy Graduation
Highlights from the United States Air Force Academy 2023 graduation ceremony. Over 900 crossed the stage at Falcon Stadium Thursday as part of the school’s 65th graduating class. President Joe Biden delivered the commencement speech and shook the hand of each cadet, chatting with some of them. (Video by Skyler Ballard/ The Gazette)
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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…