Author: Mary Shinn

This story has been updated to include a comment from the Air Force Academy.  The Air Force Academy superintendent is proposing to cut civilian faculty positions without hiring uniformed instructors to replace them — a change that could eliminate some majors. The proposal floated in internal meetings and communications is intended to increase the percentage of…

An Air Force Academy football player faces a felony sexual assault charge based on accusations he inappropriately touched a woman at a Halloween party. Sophomore Roman Bradley attended a party on Nov. 1 hosted by Phi Gamma Delta, also known as FIJI, near the University of Colorado Boulder campus where he started dancing with a…

In brisk and windy weather Tuesday, Fort Carson soldiers eased roughly 20-ton Strykers onto flat rail cars for their trip to the U.S.-Mexico border to help with illegal immigration enforcement. The slow roll of the eight-wheeled Strykers was followed by the clanking of chains as soldiers tied down the vehicles. Other 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of combat fitness standards to ensure gender neutrality on Sunday, even though fitness tests for combat roles are already gender neutral. Hegseth has previously expressed skepticism about women in combat roles, and he committed to ensuring the entire force was meeting high standards in his confirmation hearing.…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of combat fitness standards to ensure gender neutrality on Sunday, even though fitness tests for combat roles are already gender neutral. Hegseth has previously expressed skepticism about women in combat roles, and he committed to ensuring the entire force was meeting high standards in his confirmation hearing.…

What if a satellite constellation could track incoming missiles and then select one satellite to drop from orbit to take down the incoming threat? That’s Booz Allen Hamilton’s vision for Brilliant Swarm, a rebooted idea from President Ronald Reagan’s administration that was known at the time as Brilliant Pebbles. Chris Bogdan, an executive vice president…

After the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for more service members to teach at the military academies, senators closely questioned the schools’ superintendents about their civilian faculty at a hearing this week. Air Force Academy Superintendent Tony Bauernfeind, the leaders of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.,…

Pikes Peak National Cemetery will honor the service of an unclaimed Marine Corps veteran on Tuesday. Jim E. Van Hoose Jr. served as a Marine in 1973 and attempts to reach his family were unsuccessful, said Kyra Carter, program specialist with the Pikes Peak and Fort Lyon National Cemeteries. He is among many veterans who…