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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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Air Force Academy cadet dies on campus
An on-campus death of an Air Force Academy cadet is under investigation, according to an academy news release Tuesday. Jesse Fimian, 25, was found dead Sunday night by academy first responders, the academy said in its news release. Fimian, a cadet 2nd class, from Brookfield, Mass., was majoring in political science with hopes of graduating…
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Air Force Academy’s new Madera Cyber Innovation Center slated for 2024 opening
In a new high-tech building taking shape on the Air Force Academy campus, cadets will someday learn to jam communications signals, test small quadcopter drones and attack and defend critical infrastructure, such as electrical grids. The $58 million Madera Cyber Innovation Center will provide a home for the Department of Computer and Cyber Sciences and space…
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Air Force Academy cadet to be buried Wednesday
Air Force Academy Cadet 1st Class Cole Kilty, who died last week of a self-inflicted injury in Park County, will be buried Wednesday in his hometown of Elk Grove Village in suburban Chicago, according to his obituary. Kilty, 22, was planning to graduate this spring and become a second lieutenant. The behavioral sciences and leadership…
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Air Force Academy sexual assault, unwanted sexual contact reports continue to climb
The Department of Defense will investigate the U.S. Air Force Academy’s 11 training programs following another increase in unwanted sexual contact, according to an annual report by the released by the Department of Defense on Friday. The increase follows a yearlong trend across all three military service academies. The Air Force Academy said its sexual assault…
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Air Force Academy cadet found guilty on two sexual assault charges
An Air Force Academy cadet was found guilty Saturday on two sexual assault charges in a court-martial that involved allegations by four women. Judge Lt. Col. Dayle Percle sentenced Cadet Justin Couty to five years or 30 months for each charge, according to a Tuesday news release. She also dismissed him from the academy and…
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Air Force begins renovations to the east side of Falcon Stadium
A tackle gone awry inside Falcon Stadium against Army in 1977 created a direct path to shovels hitting the dirt outside that same venue on Tuesday morning at the Air Force Academy. That tackle, delivered with the crown of Jack Kucera’s helmet, left Kucera unconscious on the field and with stress fractures to three vertebrae…
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Air Force Academy cadet receives prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study overseas
A senior cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy recently received a fully-funded scholarship to study abroad, according to a news release from the academy. Cadet 1st Class Kyrolos Georgey has been selected for the coveted Marshall Scholarship, an endowment created by the United Kingdom in 1953 to allow America’s brightest scholars to pursue postgraduate…
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Air Force Academy cadet named 2023 Rhodes scholar
Rhodes scholar James Landy caught “the international bug” while sitting crisscross applesauce and learning his shapes and letters. His dad’s job at the World Bank stationed his family in Istanbul, Turkey, when Landy was 6. Students from all over the world offered windows into their lives back home through cultural foods, show and tells and discussions between class. When it…
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2022 Air Force Academy graduation week: Thunderbirds details + commencement schedule
Scenes from the Air Force Academy 2021 graduation, where more than 1,000 cadets crossed the stage at Falcon Stadium Wednesday as part of the school’s 63rd graduating class. (Video by Skyler Ballard) The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Class of 2022 will graduate in a full in-person event Wednesday at Falcon Stadium, but there are other events…