Tag: navy
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Analysis: Readiness report offers troubling assessment as military spending shrinks | Tom Roeder
America is ready to fight on the ground, but a report from the Government Accountability Office this month offers a worrying assessment of the military’s preparedness everywhere else. The report found that “mission readiness” dropped from 2017 to 2019 for air, sea, cyber and space forces. Why that readiness went down isn’t clear in the…
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Remembering Donald Stratton
Scenes from the memorial service for Donald Stratton.
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
There’s a timeless quality to World War II that America’s other conflicts don’t possess. The battle across two oceans came against powerful enemies who possessed much of three continents. The objectives of the war came with a clarity Americans haven’t seen since: We would either topple our fascist opponents or learn to speak Japanese and…
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Last of the Greatest: These five Colorado vets survived WWII. Here are their stories.
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VIDEO | Mental Health: Veterans
Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center provides veterans mental health with resources in Colorado Springs. (Video by Katie Klann)
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Colorado Springs gathers to remember Pearl Harbor
Locals will gather at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum downtown on Friday to remember the 77th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Expected in the crowd is USS Arizona survivor Donald Stratton, one of five men living who escaped the doomed battleship during the Japanese surprise attack. The event is set for 11 a.m. at the museum,…
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Military fashion week: Peacoat out, Army camo in
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Welcome to October, when military uniforms change like the fall leaves. You might notice the change on local Air Force bases, where airmen can now look more like the Army. As of Oct. 1, airmen may wear the Army’s camouflage pattern instead of the Airman…
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Military fashion week: Peacoat out, Army camo in
Welcome to October, when military uniforms change like the fall leaves. You might notice the change on local Air Force bases, where airmen can now look more like the Army. As of Oct. 1, airmen may wear the Army’s camouflage pattern instead of the Airman Battle Uniform, called the ABU in military alphabet-soup-speak. The ABU,…
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David Ramsey: How Air Force’s Troy Calhoun can repair his broken football program
Troy Calhoun revived Air Force’s broken football program when he returned to his alma mater in 2007. Once again, the call rings out for Calhoun to ride to the rescue. This time, he must save the team he built, a disintegrating team, a team tumbling toward the bottom of service-academy football. In his 12th season,…