Air Force Academy News

As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from urban districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics, and Asians.

Congressman Adrian Smith recognized a Scottsbluff High School student for being accepted into a military academy.

Armed forces alive to threats, says Kayani By Iftikhar A. Khan Thursday, 19 Nov, 2009 Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani.

Now, a team of aerospace engineers is applying the principles that keep airplanes aloft to create a new wave-energy system that is durable, extremely efficient, and can be placed anywhere in the ocean, regardless of depth.

Lt. Col. Larry H. Lang, commander and conductor of the U.S. Air Force Academy Band, conducts the ensemble during a performance.

Human remains found in San Antonio have been identified as a former Iowa man who was reported missing more than two years ago.

A U.S. Air Force Academy space weather experiment heads for the International Space Station aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis after the shuttle lifted off at at 2:28 p.m. EST Nov.

Emily Buckman, 21st Space Wing Mission Support commander, meets retired Chief Master Sgt.

This Friday is 2009's third Friday the 13th -- a day so foreboding to some that they curtail activity to duck misfortune.

Forget Ford Hood and investigating the so-called "terror" connections of Nidal Hasan.

The Air Force has nominated Maj. Gen. Kurt A. Cichowski, vice commander of the Air Force Special Operations Command, for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and assignment as the Central Intelligence Agency's associate director for military affairs.

Lieutenant Colonel Brian Tribus from West Point reacts to the Fort Hood tragedy.

A 200-milliJoule pulse laser is being used at the Air Force Academy to determine how "pushing" sulfur into a silicon-based solar cell increases the cell's efficiency.

Colorado state Rep. Kent Lambert says he will run for the seat held by state Sen.

Twenty years ago the U.S. Air Force Academy and the United States Military Academy at West Point went to Capt.

A new commander has been named for Grand Forks Air Force Base. Col. Donald Shaffer is to succeed Col.

Sometimes, the mind-numbing nature of life as a freshman at the Air Force Academy brings unseen advantages.

Excellent analysis here from William Astore , former educator at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, as well as Tom Englehardt of TomDispatch.com . Here's the thing: This may be our next "Vietnam moment," but Afghanistan is no Vietnam: there are no major enemy powers like the Soviet Union and China lurking in the ...

Students from the Northern Mariana Islands aspiring to attend one of the U.S. service academies now have twice as many slots open to them.

Although he graduated from the Air Force Academy and has a master's degree from Harvard, Brig.