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A Colorado Democrat who last year became the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to Congress took his place Friday on the U.S. Air Force Academy's supervisory board.
The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67.
The Air Force Academy says 84 cadets with flu-like symptoms have been isolated are being tested for swine flu.
Susan Popp was a manager at Hewlett-Packard and her husband was a pilot at the Air Force Academy when they decided to become bison ranchers.
The military is shutting down the Air Force Academy's emergency room and its hospital's inpatient services.
One of 36 freshman cadets caught up in a cheating scandal at the Air Force Academy has withdrawn from school, officials said Thursday.
An evangelical group petitioned Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit by an Air Force Academy graduate who alleges senior officers and cadets illegally impose Christianity on others at the school.
AF Major Guilty of Indecent ActsHe's an Air Force Major and he has already plead guilty to indecent acts with an underage girl. What difference does it make if there is penetration? Fry him for what he did. She will be traumatized for life because of what he's done.
An Officer's Experience in Our Christian MilitaryMikey Weinstein asked me to pass along this statement from an Army office and West Point graduate about the constant problems he has faced in the military from aggressive Christian superiors who have badgered him relentlessly about his own religious views.
US Soldiers Handing Out Swahili Bibles in Iraq, In Defiance of RegulationsHere's yet more video evidence of Christian groups using soldiers to proselytize Muslims in a war zone, this time in Iraq. The video is of an Army chaplain and officer, Capt.
Sullenberger To Be Honored At Air Force Academy / Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Southern Colorado, Breaking News, News, Weather, School Closings, Traffic from KKTV 11 NewsThe U.S. Airways pilot who heroically landed a charter plane in the Hudson River in January, saving the lives of 150 people on board, will return to his alma mater, the Air Force Academy, Wednesday and Thursday.
Questions Raised Anew About Religion in MilitaryIn a memorandum distributed last month at the Air Force Academy in response to several recent complaints about religious bias, base leaders reminded faculty members that "the Air Force is 'officially neutral' when it comes to belief systems." The memorandum said cadets sh …
I've seen so many truly insane, not to mention blatantly unconstitutional, ways that the military is playing with the mental well being of our troops since I began working for MRFF that I really didn't think it was possible for me to be surprised by anything anymore.
Military atheists want new rules on prayerA coalition of atheists and agnostics wants the new White House to protect young military members from what they see as rampant religious discrimination in the services.
Jewish Leader Says Victim of Anti-Semitic Attack Playing 'Jew Card'Some members of the Jewish community are calling for the immediate removal of a retired Navy captain who represents the interests of Jewish soldiers at Fort Benning, Georgia Army base that they said made light of anti-Semitic attacks on a soldier.
Religion and Its Role Are in Dispute at the Service AcademiesThree years after a scandal at the Air Force Academy over the evangelizing of cadets by Christian staff and faculty members, students and staff at West Point and the Naval Academy are complaining that their schools, too, have pushed religion on cadets and midshipmen.
Lawyer Finds Swastika and Cross on HomeAttorney Mikey Weinstein, who has had his windows shot at and feces thrown in his yard, found a swastika on the front of his house over the weekend.
The "Great Commission" and Iraq - US Military and Proselytizing ChristianityIn the course of investigating organizations like the Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) Military Ministry, whose goal is to transform our enlisted trainees and future officers into "government-paid missionaries for Christ," we began to look not only at how CCC's activities, and the …
Pictured: The Moment George Bush 'Chest Bumps' A Graduating AirmanThere are still eight months to go until George Bush hands over his presidency but it seems he already feels like celebrating. After greeting US Air Force Academy cadets at a graduation ceremony in Colorado, he started horsing about with one graduate.
Top military service runs in Wisconsin familyLA VALLE — Family gatherings at the Voss home in La Valle are beginning to resemble a kind of meeting of the junior Joint Chiefs of Staff. This fall, the family's youngest, 18-year-old Joanna, plans to start classes at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, making her the fourth o …
The Christian Right's Emerging Deadly Worldview: Kill Muslims to Purify the EarthWalid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right.
An Interview with Michael Weinstein, Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom FoundationMichael Weinstein is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, as are his brother-in-law, two sons, and daughter-in-law. His father graduated from the United States Naval Academy.
Complaints of religious bullying in the nation's military academies have been occurring for more than two years.
Evangelical Christian Supremacism -- The Cancer That's Consuming The United States' Airforce AcademyForty-two years ago, at the age of 18, I took the oath of office on my first day as an Air Force Academy cadet.
American Exceptionalism Meets Team JesusA Tomdispatch Interview with James Carroll(Part 1) He's a man who knows something about the dangers of mixing religious fervor, war, and the crusading spirit, a subject he dealt with eloquently in his book Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews.
The Faith-based Ideology of ArmageddonBook TV On C-SPAN -- With God on Our Side: Evangelicals and the Military
Top Stories: NEW! Cadets rescued off Pikes Peak, peak, kinsey, cadets,rescue - Gazette.comTwo Air Force Academy cadets who got stuck in waist-deep snow on Pikes Peak were rescued by helicopter this morning, El Paso County Search and Rescue officials reported.
The Denver Post - Cadets rescued on snowy Pikes PeakThe El Paso County Search and Rescue Team rescued two Air Force Academy Cadets from Pikes Peak.
Top Stories: Rescuers close in on cadets, colorado, expected, rescuers - Gazette.comEarly this morning rescuers got within yelling distance of a pair of Air Force Academy Cadets stuck in waist-deep snow on the north ridge of Pikes Peak.
Headlines: Cadets call for snow rescue , snow, pikes, rescue - Gazette.comEl Paso County Search and Rescue perform a second rescue involving hikers mired in deep snow on Pikes Peak.
All worked up to play Wake ForestMatt McCraw can't pull rank, but he is doing most of the talking right now when he and roommate Chris Sutton, a senior cornerback and a captain on the Falcons' football team, take time out from studies to talk sports.
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