Tag: military
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Hegseth announces nominee for Air Force Academy superintendent
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced last week that Maj. Gen. Paul Moga has been nominated to be the next superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Moga could replace Superintendent Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, who requested to retire early this summer. Moga’s nomination requires a Senate vote. The off-cycle departure means the superintendent and his…
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Colorado Springs area military events starting May 3
MONDAY “Forged in Fire” — presented by the Air Force Academy Band, 7 p.m., Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave.; pikespeakcenter.com. MAY 16-OCT. 3 Colorado Challenge Series — to benefit Veterans to Veterans and the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center. Go online for list of runs, prices and registration: coloradochallengeseries.com. JUNE 10 El Paso County…
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Trump ‘not satisfied’ with Iran’s proposal to end war
ISLAMABAD — President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal to end the war between the countries, saying Friday he still was not satisfied while blaming Iran’s “fractured” leadership. Trump turned back the latest proposal almost as soon as it was delivered. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Iran handed over its plan to mediators in Pakistan…
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Colorado Springs area military events starting April 26
MAY 4 Forged in Fire — presented by the Air Force Academy Band, 7 p.m., Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave.; pikespeakcenter.com. MAY 16-OCT. 3 Colorado Challenge Series — to benefit Veterans2Veterans and the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center. Go online for list of runs, prices and registration: coloradochallengeseries.com. JUNE 10 El Paso County Veterans…
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Doherty senior, accepted into three service academies, chooses Air Force
George Miller, who will graduate from Doherty High School next month, applied to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and the Air Force Academy, in the hope that one of the prestigious schools would accept him. To Miller’s surprise, he was accepted by all three. “It was…
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Kratos awarded $450M missile defense contract by Space Force
Kratos, a San Diego-based company with a significant presence in El Paso County, was awarded a contract worth nearly half a billion dollars last week. The contract, worth up to $446.8 million, will require Kratos to design, integrate and sustain ground systems the Space Force will need to operate a constellation of satellites intended to…
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Colorado Springs area military events starting April 19
EVENTS MAY 4 Forged in Fire — Presented by the Air Force Academy Band, 7 p.m., Pikes Peak Center, 190 S. Cascade Ave.; pikespeakcenter.com. MAY 16-OCT. 3 Colorado Challenge Series — To benefit Veterans to Veterans and the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center. Go online for list of runs, prices and registration: coloradochallengeseries.com. JUNE 10 El…
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Training exercise takes over Air Force Academy
Jets roared over the Air Force Academy and parachutists floated down through Thursday’s clear skies, as cadets closely guarded their operations’ tents with airsoft guns and patrolled the woods. In the minds of cadets, the academy’s campus was transformed into a Japanese island for an exercise meant to simulate defending four airfields and rescuing downed…
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Starlink outage hits drone tests, exposing Pentagon’s growing reliance on SpaceX
Last August, U.S. Navy officials carrying out a test of unmanned vessels realized they had hit a single point of failure: Starlink. A global outage across Elon Musk’s satellite network affecting millions of Starlink users had left two dozen unmanned surface vessels bobbing off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for almost an…
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Aerospace company SelectTech taps El Paso County for expansion
By Breeanna Jent and Alexander Edwards The Tribune Ohio-based aerospace company SelectTech Services Corporation is expanding to El Paso County. Company leadership, Gov. Jared Polis and local business and economic development officials announced the expansion last week during the 41st Space Symposium held at The Broadmoor. SelectTech is a mission-driven company that supports the U.S.…