- Freshman class reports for duty
The most important rule for newcomers to the Air Force Academy was demonstrated with excruciating clarity Thursday. Don’t stick out. The...

- Designer of the Air Force Academy's Cadet Chapel dies
Walter Netsch Jr. broke new ground in modern architecture with his design of the Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy. He died of pneumonia Sunday at...

- Fighters made for a gamer generation
The flight simulator brought to the Air Force Academy was more video game than war machine. But the mock-up of the F-35 Lightning II cockpit did show...

- Clouds can't dim cadets' happiness
The biggest applause of the three-hour Air Force Academy graduation Wednesday may have been when the sun made a brief appearance over Falcon Stadium....

- Leave early to avoid, join the masses
The Air Force Academy will graduate 1,011 cadets from the class of 2008 today in a ceremony that includes a speech by President Bush. There are...

- AFA staff sergeant gets 3 months
An Air Force Academy staff sergeant was sentenced to three months behind bars Thursday for crimes including covertly videotaping a nude coworker and...

- Plans in works to build $9 million indoor facility
Air Force has made the initial steps toward the construction of a privately funded $9 million indoor facility for intercollegiate sports. According...

- AFA tickets gone in flash
The 500 tickets for this year’s Air Force Academy graduation ceremony next month at which President Bush will deliver the commencement speech were snapped...

- Filmmaker delays work at AFA until next year
The Air Force Academy may be ready for a closeup, but fillmakers are holding off. “Bring Me Men,” an independent film that was to begin shooting...

- Launch grounded; spirit isn't
A rocket built by Air Force Academy cadets didn’t get off the ground this month, but the engineering students say they’re learning as much from setbacks...

- Tickets available Monday, April 28
The Air Force Academy will give away 500 reserved-seat tickets Monday for its May 28 graduation ceremony featuring a speech by President Bush. Tickets...

- Cadets fight in cyberwar
Bleary-eyed cadets at the Air Force Academy, including members of a group dubbed the “nerdy dozen” for its computer prowess, have spent the week battling...

- Bush to speak at graduation
The 950 or so graduating Air Force Academy cadets could be saluted by their commander in chief when they receive diplomas next month. President...

- Clips about proselytizing at AFA removed from seminar
Air Force Academy officials declined to show clips from a documentary critical of Christian proselytizing in the U.S. military at a seminar Wednesday...

- More views on war, religion
Air Force Academy cadets will hear a different perspective on war and religion than the one delivered by three “former terrorists” in February. ...

- Cadets urged to be smart downtown
After five cadets were injured in fights and three were sexually assaulted in downtown Colorado Springs, Air Force Academy boss Lt. Gen. John Regni sent...

- AFA denies downtown ban
Air Force Academy cadets have been warned about trouble spots in downtown Colorado Springs, but the academy is denying that it amounts to a ban, the...

- AFA will phase out inpatient hospital
The Air Force Academy is preparing to shut down its emergency room and phase out its inpatient hospital beginning April 1, relying on other area hospitals...

- Few apologies for views on Islam
Three Arabs told an audience at the Air Force Academy on Wednesday they left a life of terrorism and sectarian hatred after converting to Christianity....

- Speakers to stick to terror
Three “former terrorists” speaking today at the Air Force Academy will stick to their area of expertise — terrorism — and won’t be promoting Christianity,...

- Factious choice in public speakers
The Air Force Academy will host three “former terrorists” as speakers Wednesday to the cadet wing, despite warnings that at least one of them has fabricated...

- Hostage training to resume for cadets
The Air Force Academy will begin training cadets this summer on resisting enemy forces if they’re taken hostage, reinstating a program that was discontinued...

- During a grueling recovery, cadet had one goal: get back to the academy Air Force Academy cadet Thomas Avolio accepts his notoriety. “I don’t want to be identified as the guy who fell down Eagle Peak,” he said. “But...

- AFA researchers testing ocean waves for energy
Researchers at the Air Force Academy are developing an idea that could use ocean waves to meet much of the nation’s energy needs. The devices used...

- 19 sex assaults at AFA most among academies
Nineteen sexual assaults were reported at the Air Force Academy in the past academic year — the most of the three service academies included in a Pentagon...

- AFA man accused of taping women
An Air Force Academy staff sergeant is facing a possible court-martial on charges of making clandestine videotapes of female co-workers as they changed...

- 35 years later, AFA grad is laid to rest An Air Force Academy graduate was buried at the school’s cemetery Tuesday, 35 years after he was shot down during a secret mission over Laos. ...

- ’70s AFA didn't seem very Hollywood
In 1976, Col. Beverly Plosa-Bowser knew that being one of the first female cadets at the Air Force Academy was dramatic. She just never pictured it as...

- AFA grads share war stories In the skies over Vietnam, Dale Stovall helped pluck a dozen downed pilots from the jungle, earning the Air Force’s second- and third-highest honors...

- HONOR, PRIDE GET PUT TO THE TEST
It was a long drive to Albuquerque on that cold Friday last February. Under leaden skies and with strains of Wagner’s classics blasting, Lt. Gen....

- Cadets take on cancer, poison gas
In the chemistry labs in Fairchild Hall at the Air Force Academy, cadets and professors could be edging closer to defeating a pair of scourges. ...

- AFA gets pop-up gates; ID checks coming
Sure, try to run the gates of the Air Force Academy. Someday soon, when the bugs are worked out, the security forces there will have a little surprise...

- Cadet arrested in bike thefts
An Air Force Academy cadet is accused of stealing his classmates’ expensive bicycles and stashing them in a Colorado Springs apartment. Colorado...

- When it comes to straight, AFA No. 1
At the Air Force Academy you might find a trail of smoke spewing from the back of a jet, but don’t expect to see it billowing from a bong in a cadet’s...

- AFA rated top in its class by U.S. News
If you want to get into the top baccalaureate college in the West, it could take an act of Congress. Literally. The United States Air Force...

- Airman faces porn charges
Air Force Academy commanders on Wednesday began weighing if prosecutors have enough evidence to court-martial an airman charged with possessing child...

- Fresh meat at Air Force
Fresh faces climb onto yellow school buses, some shooting halfsmiles to onlooking family members, their last goodbyes until the fall. Only the...

- Shot down 17 planes in 2 wars
Former Air Force Academy commandant and legendary fighter pilot Robin Olds died Thursday at his Steamboat Springs home, the Air Force announced Friday....

- An outsider’s inside view of the AFA Sex. Booze. Cheating. It’s all in a new book about the Air Force Academy. Only this book is fiction. Well, sort of. “There certainly...

- AFA sergeant accused of rape after July event
A master sergeant at the United States Air Force Academy has been charged with raping a female military member after a social event last July, the academy...

- Gates: Listen to critics Air Force Academy cadets got advice on integrity and honesty at the school’s annual graduation rites Wednesday. The homily was delivered by Defense...

- Picture perfect
Everything in the last three minutes of the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony depends on everything else. If the Thunderbirds come in 10 knots...