Tag: af – active duty
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Freeman’s homer highlights rally
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va., Oct. 10, 2012 – It was a bright, sunny day recently as Air Force Senior Airman Kimara Duncan, 94th Fighter Squadron F-22 crew chief, wheeled her toolbox out to the flightline here. The air was warm and filled with the roar of passing jets overhead as she prepared to start…
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Speier allows five singles to turn a lead into a loss
SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C., Oct. 9, 2012 – While many airmen who play the sport avidly hope to make the Air Force softball team once or twice in their careers, Master Sgt. Tony Patrick has donned the blue and black uniform an unprecedented 10 times since 2000. Patrick, noncommissioned officer in charge of…
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USOC lays off six in Springs
Connor Dietz, Air Force’s senior quarterback, stood motionless at the 35-yard line, his eyes fixed on his devastated teammates and their jubilant conquerors. Air Force’s two-game winning streak over Navy ended after the Midshipmen’s bold, unlikely comeback. Navy overcame an eight-point, fourth-quarter deficit to take a 28-21 overtime victory. Dietz had seen the Falcons power…
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Staff works overtime in wake of blizzard
Air Force Academy officials say a cadet who died after being found unconscious last week was a senior from Dallas. Academy officials identified him Monday as 22-year-old Cadet 1st Class Matthew Patrick. He was taken to a Colorado Springs hospital after he was found unconscious Friday and was pronounced dead. His cause of death remains…
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BACK IN THE RUNNING
Military prosecutors charged two Air Force Academy juniors on Tuesday in connection with allegations of sexual misconduct dating to 2009. The cadets’ names were not released — an unusual step coming in the wake of three other sexual misconduct cases announced in January at the academy, said John Van Winkle, an academy spokesman. “It is…
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Nuggets help cause, hurt Minnesota deeply
A group of politicians, retired generals and Air Force Academy graduates gave mostly positive marks on Friday for a survey gauging satisfaction, tolerance and discrimination at the Air Force Academy, with one person deeming the results “impressive.” But the low participation rate by academy cadets — 15 percent of those polled responded — stuck out…
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CC DUO UP FOR HOBEY TODAY
A culture of preferential treatment towards intercollegiate athletes ranked as one of the top concerns of Air Force Academy cadets who responded to a wide-ranging survey released on Thursday. Two out of five cadets also said underage drinking is a weekly occurence at the academy, while nearly two-thirds felt it happened at least once a…
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Sky Sox in need of relief
Air Force Gen. William Shelton remembers American troops fighting the first so-called “space war” in the dusty, barren deserts of Iraq and Kuwait.Half of the United States’ planned constellation of global positioning satellites circled overhead in 1991. AH-64 Apache helicopters flew with satellite transmitters duct-taped to their windscreens.“It’s hard to imagine today, but back then,…
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Youth serves dramatic rally
An Air Force Academy cadet was found innocent of using the marijuana substitute “spice” by a court-martial panel Friday night, but convicted of making a false official statement.Junior cadet Kami L. Bohannon was fined $990 in pay by the special court martial panel for lying to investigators.“She was found not guilty of one specification of…
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Air Force fighters won’t pull punches
The mock rescue of a plane seized by terrorists was the basis for a computer-based joint exercise by NORAD and the Russian Federation Air Force that ended Wednesday with representatives from both entities agreeing that it will serve as solid preparation for next year’s event. The annual event, part of the Vigilant Eagle exercise series,…