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1 June
1954 -- The Air Force Academy Project office is superseded by the newly created
Air Force Academy Construction Agency.
The Agency's mission, like that of the Project Office, was "to direct
the planning, designing and construction of an Air Force Academy. Colonel Leo Erler was appointed as its first director. Congress approved this limited-time agency
because Air Force officials did not want the Army (Corps of Engineers) involved
in the planning and construction of the Academy.
1 June
1959 -- The cadet dormitory is officially named Vandenberg Hall, after General Hoyt
Vandenberg, the second Air Force Chief of Staff, who made many key decisions in
the Academy's formulation, to include selecting General Hubert Harmon as its
first Superintendent. General
Vandenberg's widow and son attended the ceremony. That son, Captain Hoyt Vandenberg Jr., would
go on to be the Academy Commandant of Cadets in the 1970s. This was the last of five building dedications
to take place during a three-day period.
1 June
1977 -- The "Tail End Charlie" tradition ends with the graduation of the Class
of '77. The 19-year practice had every
member of the class give a silver dollar to the classmate graduating last in
the order of merit. The incoming
Superintendent, Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman, would end the custom
because he believed it was not appropriate to recognize a graduate for being
the lowest ranking member of his class.
John McNulty was the final "Tail End Charlie."
1 June
1980 -- The Department of Chemistry and Biological Sciences is split into two
departments. Colonel Harvey Schiller became
the first head of the Department of Chemistry and Colonel Orwyn Sampson became
the first head of the Department of Biology.
1 June 1981
-- Colonel Jock Schwank, Class of '60, becomes the first Academy graduate to
serve as Preparatory School Commander.
1 June
1981 -- Second Lieutenant Michelle Johnson, Class of '81, becomes the first
female cadet selected for a Rhodes scholarship.
1 June
1981 -- The Department of Economics, Geography, and Management is reorganized
into the Department of Economics, the Department of Management, and the Office
of Instruction for Geography. The Office
of Instruction for Geography became part of the Department of Law.
1 June
1982 -- The Department of Astronautics and Computer Science is split into two
separate departments.
1 June
1982 -- The Thunderbird Overlook is dedicated.
It contained a T-38 Talon painted in the Thunderbirds paint scheme, with
the number 1 on the tail. The aircraft
was given to the Academy in 1981 by Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The Association of Graduates was instrumental
in funding the Overlook. An A-10 was
added in 2002.
1 June
1992 -- The Cadet Wing Hostess Office is eliminated. The decision was primarily
economy-driven. In 2008, the
Superintendent, Lieutenant General John Regni, Class of '73, re-established the
1 June
1998 -- Colonel Hedy Pinkerton becomes the first female Director of Admissions.
1 June
1999 -- The Air Officer Commanding (AOC) master's program begins, whereby
incoming AOCs study and receive a master's degree in counseling from the
University of Colorado - Colorado Springs at the conclusion of their AOC
1 June
2003 -- The Cadet Counseling Center is administratively moved from Dean of the
Faculty to the Commandant of Cadets and is renamed the Academy Counseling
1 June
2004 -- Charles Baldwin, Class of '69, is promoted to the rank of Major General
and becomes the first Academy graduate to serve as Air Force Chief of
1 June
2012 -- Tom Krise, Class of '83, becomes the thirteenth president of Pacific
Lutheran University.
2 June
1954 -- The official plan for Academy flight training is established. Graduates would be qualified as aircraft
observers and navigator-bombardiers.
Familiarization with flying as pilots would be provided, but graduates
would not be qualified as pilots. The
type and amount of flying training to be conducted at the Academy had been a
contentious subject for decades.
2 June
1972 -- Captain Dale Stoval, Class of '67, flies the mission for which he would
receive the Academy's 1973 Colonel James Jabara Award for Airmanship. He penetrated the heavily defended Red River
Valley of North Vietnam in his Jolly Green HH-53 helicopter, repeatedly braving
MIGs, SAMs, anti-aircraft artillery fire, and ground forces, to rescue a fellow
airman. He also received the Air Force
Cross for his actions on the mission.
2 June
1975 -- The Academy becomes the first service academy and the first military
installation to receive dual recognition as a National Bicentennial Site.
2 June
1987 -- The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library is approved by the
Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) Corporation. The Friends was established to enhance the
quality of the McDermott Library as an educational, research, scientific and
cultural institution.
2 June
1999 -- President William J. Clinton is the graduation speaker.
2 June
2004 -- President George W. Bush is the graduation speaker.
3 June
1954 -- The Air Force Academy Site Selection Commission recommends that one of three
sites be chosen as the academy's home: Alton, Illinois; Colorado Springs,
Colorado; and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
3 June
1959 -- The first class graduates. The
ceremony was held in Arnold Hall, and it remains the only indoor graduation in
Academy history. Secretary of the Air
Force James Douglas and Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White
officiated. The 207 graduates in the
Class of '59 began the "Long Blue Line."
3 June
1976 -- Air Force Cadet Regulation 50-1, Training: Fourth Class System, is
published. It contains guidance for
training the first female cadets, who would arrive later in the month.
4 June
1958 -- The Department of Foreign Languages is officially
established an academic department. In
the first year, classes were taught in French, German, Russian and Spanish.
4 June
1958 -- The Department of Graphics is deactivated.
4 June
1969 -- President Richard M. Nixon delivers the graduation address to the Class
of '69, the largest (683) class to graduate to that time.
4 June
1974 -- The Strategic Air Command's Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird makes its first
appearance at the Academy's graduation festivities.
4 June
1975 -- The Class of '75 graduates. The
class had an attrition rate of 46.19%, the highest in Academy history.
4 June
1986 -- The Barry M. Goldwater Visitor Center, dedicated on 27 May, opens to
the public.
4 June
1993 -- The P-47 Thunderbolt statue is dedicated. The memorial, sculpted by Robert Henderson,
is displayed on the Honor Court.
5 June
1963 -- President John F. Kennedy speaks at the Class of '63's graduation, the
first graduation ceremony in Falcon Stadium, and the first time a president
participated in an Air Force Academy graduation. The first three African-American graduates of
the Air Force Academy are in the Class of '63 - Charles Bush, Isaac Payne, and
Roger Sims.
5 June
2012 -- Janet Wolfenbarger, Class of '80, becomes the Air Force and the Air
Force Academy's first female four-star general as she assumes command of Air
Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
6 June
1961 -- Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert, at the Academy for the
graduation of the class of '61, officiates at the pouring of the first concrete
in the construction of Falcon Stadium.
6 June
1965 -- The song "The Ramparts" is debuted at a concert in Arnold Hall. The song, commissioned by the Air Force
Academy Welfare Fund in commemoration of the Academy's tenth anniversary, was
written by Clifton Williams.
6 June
1987 -- T. Allan McArtor, Class of '64, named by President Ronald Reagan to
head the Federal Aviation Administration.
He served from 22 July 1987 until 17 February 1989.
7 June
1967 -- With the increase in the number of cadets, the Cadet Wing is expanded
into five groups, each with six squadrons.
After one year, the Wing was returned to a four group configuration.
7 June
2000 -- The Superintendent, Lieutenant General Tad Oelstrom, Class of '65,
receives the Order of the Sword. The
Order of the Sword is presented by enlisted members to an officer who they feel
epitomizes officership.
8 June
1966 -- The first three foreign national cadets to complete four years at the
Academy receive their diplomas.
8 June
1996 -- The Association of Graduates purchases a gyrfalcon and presents it to
the Academy. The cadets name the white
falcon Aurora.
8 June
2007 -- The Academy announces the inaugural class for induction into the Air
Force Academy Athletic Hall of Fame. The
class is comprised of Olympic champion sprinter Alonzo Babers (Class of '83), basketball
players Bob Beckel ('59) and Michelle Johnson ('81), former athletic director Colonel
John Clune (Navy, '54), and football players Brock Strom (59) and Chad Hennings
9 June
2000 -- Major General John Dallager, Class of '69, becomes the Academy's 15th
Superintendent. He would pin on his
third star on 1 August 2000.
9 June
2006 -- Ten days after graduating, Second Lieutenant Dana Pounds, Class of '06,
defends her national javelin title at the 2006 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field
Championships in Sacramento, California.
She became the Academy's first back-to-back champion at the Division I
9 June
2009 -- Lieutenant General Mike Gould, Class of '76, becomes the Academy's
eighteenth Superintendent, assuming command from Lieutenant General John Regni,
Class of '73.
10 June
2005 -- Cadet Dana Pounds, Class of '06, wins the national javelin title at the
2005 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Sacramento, California. She became the Academy's first female national
champion at the Division I level, and the first track and field champion since
Cadet Callie Calhoun, Class of '91, won the 10,000 meter title at the 1991
Division II national meet.
11 June 2013
-- The Black Forest Fire starts just east of the Academy. For the second time in two years, the Academy
and Academy personnel were threatened by a large wildfire. Again, the Academy fire department and other
agencies responded. Two people were
killed in the fire, including Robin Herklotz, Class of '84, and her husband
12 June
1956 -- The first Athletic Awards Banquet is held, in the Cadet Dining Hall.
12 June
1982 -- Brigadier General Anthony Burschnick, Class of '60, becomes the Academy
Commandant of Cadets. He was the second
Academy graduate to serve a Commandant, immediately following the first,
Brigadier General Bob Beckel, Class of '59.
12 June
2007 -- Colonel (Retired) Michael Butler, Class of 1976, is killed near Tikrit,
Iraq. Colonel Butler was working as a
civilian contractor with the Civilian Police Advisory Training Team.
13 June
2011 -- Officials from the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs Utilities and
SunPower Corporation flip a switch signifying the official dedication of the
Academy's 6-megawatt solar array. The
array, near the Academy's South Gate, constitutes about 11 percent of the
Academy's overall electricity needs: about 12,000 megawatt-hours per year, or
enough to power more than 1,200 average homes.
14 June
1986 -- Brigadier General Sam Westbrook III, Class of '63, assumes command of
CW, making him the fourth consecutive Air Force Academy graduate to serve as Commandant
of Cadets.
14 June
2013 -- The Academy holds the funeral of Brigadier General Alfred F. Hurley,
USAF, Retired, former Permanent Professor for the Department of History. The event took place in the Catholic Cadet
15 June
1939 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Crawford unveils his "Army Air Corps" song ("Off
we go, into the wild blue yonder....").
Officially performed for the first time later in the year, the song
would eventually become closely associated with the Air Force Academy.
15 June
1963 -- The Falcon Foundation Scholarship Fund Drive begins.
15 June
2008 -- Walter Netsch, lead architect of the Air Force Academy, passes away in
16 June
1981 -- Major General Robert Kelley succeeds Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman
as Academy Superintendent.
16 June
1983 -- Lieutenant General Winfield "Skip" Scott becomes the Academy's tenth
Superintendent, assuming command from Major General Robert Kelley.
16 June
1997 -- The Academy Superintendent, Lieutenant General Paul Stein, Class of
'66, receives the 1997 All-American Football Foundation's Outstanding College
President's Award at the foundation's banquet.
16 June
2005 -- Captain Nicole Malachowski, Class of 1996, is announced as the first
female Thunderbird pilot. She flew with
the demonstration team from November 2005 until November 2007.
17 June
2002 -- The Hayman Fire west of the Academy forces the evacuation of the Farish
Recreation Camp and the Academy's Combat Survival Training site in the Pike
National Forest.
17 June
2004 -- The Class of '59 dedicates the Challenge Bridge outside Doolittle
Hall. The stone and mortar structure
serves as a gateway to the Heritage Trail and is intended to inspire cadets to
reflect on the oath of service and commitment they have chosen for their lives.
18 June
1999 -- Brigadier General Mark Welsh III, Class of '76, becomes the Commandant
of Cadets. General Welsh would go on to
become the fourth Air Force Academy graduate to serve as Air Force Chief of
19 June
1961 -- Brigadier General William Seawell becomes the Academy's third
Commandant of Cadets.
19 June
1964 -- Cadet Jim Murphy, Class of '66, becomes the Academy's first athlete to
win an NCAA individual national championship by finishing in a tie for first
place in the 5,000 meter run at the NCAA Track and Field National Championships
in Eugene, Oregon. He was also the first
cadet selected to participate in the Olympic Trials--the top three runners
qualified for the Olympics, and he finished fourth.
19 June
1965 -- Brigadier General Louis Seith becomes Commandant of Cadets, succeeding
Brigadier General Robert Strong.
20 June
1961 -- Major Frederick Gillen and Captain Patrick Slezak, both assigned to the
Academy Athletic Department, are killed in the crash of a T-33 near Lowry Air
Force Base. The Gillen-Slezak Trophy,
the Intercollegiate Athletics Award, is presented each year in their
memory. The Trophy is displayed in the
Athletic Hall of Excellence.
20 June
1991 -- The Academy and the Academy Research and Development Institute (ARDI)
sign a Memorandum of Agreement. The
document was signed by Academy Superintendent Lieutenant General Charles R.
Hamm, and ARDI President, retired Brigadier General Philip J. Erdle.
21 June
2010 -- Colonel Tamra Rank, Class of '83, becomes the first female Vice
Superintendent in Academy history.
22 June
1942 -- General of the Air Force Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, namesake of the
Academy's Arnold Hall, is featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
22 June
1955 -- The Academy Superintendent, Lieutenant General Hubert Harmon, sends a
letter to District 20 School Board President, Russell Wolfe, requesting a
statement of District 20's desire and capabilities to support the educational
needs of the Air Force Academy's dependents.
The District response indicated that it did not have the funds to build
a school, but would operate a school if the Air Force furnished the facility.
22 June
1959 -- The Air Force Academy is featured on the cover of Life Magazine, weeks
after its first class graduates. The
article is titled: "Party: A Festive Week in the Air Force Academy:
Girls and Weddings Grace a Graduation."
The June 1959 issue of National Geographic also covered the Academy in a
colorful 30-page spread.
22 June
1973 -- General Jimmy Doolittle, leader of the Doolittle Raid, visits the
22 June
2011 -- The General Dynamics MQ-1B Predator drone, hanging inverted from the
Mitchell Hall ceiling, is dedicated.
23 June 1998
-- Heather A. Wilson, Class of 1982, is elected to the United States House of
Representatives, making her not only the first Academy graduate elected to the
House, but also the first female veteran in American history to serve in
23 June
2012 -- The Waldo Canyon Fire starts in the foothills south and west of the Academy. By the time the fire was under control,
81,000 acres had burned, including a small portion of Academy land, roughly 140
acres in the southwest corner of the reservation.
24 June
1954 -- Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott announces Colorado Springs
would become the permanent home of the Air Force Academy. He also announces that Denver, Colorado,
would become the interim home of the Air Force Academy and tasked General
Hubert Harmon to evaluate possible sites.
25 June
1949 -- J. Douglas Crouch, Military Affairs Chairman of the Colorado Springs
Chamber of Commerce, sends a letter to
Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington, recommending Colorado Springs as
"an ideal location for the proposed United States Airforce Academy."
25 June 1954
-- Chaplain, Colonel John S. Bennett and Chaplain, Colonel Constantine E.
Zielinski report for duty as the Academy's first Protestant and Catholic
chaplains, respectively.
25 June
1991 -- Lieutenant General Bradley Hosmer, Class of '59, becomes the first Air
Force Academy graduate to serve as Superintendent.
25 June
1997 -- A T-3A Firefly crashes near Research Parkway and Explorer Drive, east
of the Academy, taking the lives of Captain Glen Comeaux and Cadet Pace Weber, Class
of '98. This was the third T-3 crash at
the Academy, leading to the plane's grounding a month later.
25 June
1999 -- The San Antonio Spurs, coached by Gregg Popovich, Class of '70, win the
National Basketball Association championship.
It is the first of four championships the Popovich-led team would win.
25 June
2012 -- The Academy conducts a change-of-command ceremony at which Brigadier
General Gregory Lengyel becomes the Commandant of Cadets.
25 June
2013 -- Brigadier General Andrew Armacost succeeds Brigadier General Dana Born,
Class of '83, as Dean of the Faculty.
26 June
1959 -- The first three Falcon Scholars, sponsored by the Falcon Foundation,
entered the Academy with the Class of '63.
26 June
1967 -- Colonel Frank Merritt becomes the Director of Athletics. He would serve in this position until June
26 June
1978 -- The Class of '82 enters the Academy, with the first five cadets in
history who were dependents of Academy alumni.
26 June
1987 -- The Academy conducts a change-of-command, at which Lieutenant General
Charles Hamm becomes the Academy Superintendent.
26 June
1992 -- Brigadier General Richard Bethurem, Class of '66, succeeds Brigadier
General Joseph Redden, Class of '64, as the Academy's Commandant of Cadets.
26 June
1993 -- Brigadier General Patrick Gamble becomes the Academy's 17th Commandant
of Cadets. A graduate of Texas A&M
University, he was the first non-USAFA grad Commandant in more than 12 years.
26 June
2007 -- The funeral for Dorothy Donnelly Moller is held in the Protestant Cadet
Chapel. Mrs. Moller and her husband, Colonel Joseph A. Moller, who passed away
in 1993, were selected to receive the Academy's 2003 Distinguished Service
Award. Among their many contributions, the
Mollers established the first major planned gift in Academy history.
26 June
2008 -- KAFA, the Academy radio station, broadcasts live from in-processing for
the first time. Station manager Dave
West provided listeners with updates and interviewed Academy staff members and
27 June
2006 -- General Kevin Chilton, Class of '76, a veteran of three Space Shuttle
flights , assumes command of Air Force Space Command in a ceremony at Peterson
AFB, Colorado. He pinned on the rank of
general in a promotion ceremony the morning of his assumption of command, thus
becoming the first astronaut to earn a fourth star.
28 June
1976 -- The first 157 female cadets begin training, as members of the Class of
'80. Joan Olsen was the first female
cadet to be sworn in - she did not graduate.
By mere days, the Air Force Academy was the first of the Department of
Defense service academies to admit women.
28 June
1977 -- Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman becomes the Academy's eighth
Superintendent, taking the reins from Lieutenant General James Allen.
28 June
1988 -- Air Force Academy professor Dr. Robert Golobic and Hewlett-Packard
engineer Johann Sverdrup founded Spectranetics. Golobic and Sverdrup developed
medical lasers for heart surgery.
28 June
2012 -- Due to the Waldo Canyon Fire, the first phase of the Class of 16's
in-processing is moved from Doolittle Hall to the Field House. This marked the first time since 1993 that
in-processing did not begin at Doolittle Hall.
29 June
1954 -- Colonel Robert V. Whitlow is appointed as the Academy's first Director
of Athletics. He also coached the
football team to a 4-4record during its inaugural season in 1955. Colonel Whitlow served at Athletic Director
until June 1957.
29 June
1979 -- During its twenty-year reunion, the Class of '59 dedicates a plaque to
the Air Training Officers in Arnold Hall.
The ATOs served the role of upper classmen for the early classes during
the Lowry AFB days.
29 June
1992 -- The first international cadets from a former communist bloc country are
admitted to the Academy, as members of the Class of '96. The two cadets were citizens of Poland, and
both graduated.
29 June 2012
-- Colonel Kabrena Rodda, Class of '92, becomes the first female Preparatory
School Commander.
30 June
1954 -- Master Sergeant Lawrence Malchow of March Air Base, California, makes
the first gift to the yet-to-be-established foundation to support the
Academy. The check for $5 was sent to
Colorado Spring Mayor Harry Blunt with a request that it be placed "in a
trustee fund for purchase of the U.S. Air Force Academy site." The check could not be deposited until the
foundation was incorporated the following month.
30 June
1965 -- Colonel Virgil O'Connor retires from the Cadet Registrar and becomes
the first Academy officer to be awarded an honorary bachelor of science degree
by the Academy.
30 June
1972 -- The U.S. Court of Appeals rules that mandatory chapel attendance at the
three service academies is unconstitutional.
In December 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the case,
and compulsory chapel ends in January 1973.
30 June
2007 -- The funeral for Brigadier General Robin Olds, USAF, Retired, is held in
the Protestant Cadet Chapel. General
Olds, a triple ace
with seventeen kills in World War II and Vietnam, served as Academy Commandant
of Cadets 1967-1971.
The following story was done by SB Nation and discusses the difficulty in coaching at a service academy. SB Nation feels that the three service academy jobs are the most difficult in the FBS.
Air Force, Army, Navy head coaches explain football's 3 hardest jobs
By Kevin Trahan, May 21 2014, 9:00a 19
America's service academies face tough recruiting restrictions and still find success on the football field. SB Nation talked to head coaches Ken Niumatalolo, Troy Calhoun, and Jeff Monken about adapting and contending anyway.
In April, when the NCAA changed its policy to allow for unlimited meals, college coaches championed it as a success for student-athletes and as a potential benefit in recruiting. But for Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun, it was just another reminder of what he's up against.
"That doesn't pertain to us," he said of the new rules.
Calhoun isn't bitter about the rule change. He knows it benefits athletes at most schools and that it's necessary in a world more focused on player welfare. And he knew in 2007, when he took the Air Force Academy job, that he was signing up for one of the three toughest jobs in college football.
At no other major football schools are recruits agreeing to active military service when they sign to play football. At the academies, physical training mandatory for a degree gets in the way of physical training for football. And that's for the players who meet the height and weight requirements for entry.
With these restrictions, among many others, it's a shock that America's service academies can win any games in the top subdivision of Division I. Because to win games, you have to recruit good players. And finding good players with those restrictions is improbable, at best.
How do service academies recruit?
I posed that broad question to Calhoun, and his answer started out simply enough: "I don't think our process is different than anywhere else," he said.
On the surface, that's true. Calhoun and the coaches at Army and Navy go out in search of the best football players in the country to come to their schools, just like the coaches at every other Division I program. But it comes with a caveat: "just, the filters that are involved are a lot stronger."
Just a few of those filters:
Academics. At Air Force, prospective players need to have at least a 3.5 high school GPA, a 25 on the ACT in all subjects, and a minimum of a 1200 two-part SAT score. Requirements are similarly rigorous at the other service academies. Lt. Col. Gaylord Greene, who works in admissions at Army, said coaches will often encourage recruits to take more core courses, since the school requires more of them for entry than most others do.
Height and weight requirements. They differ slightly by academy, but at Air Force, a 6'4 applicant cannot weigh more than 221 pounds for admission -- and must also not weigh more than that upon graduation. This makes recruiting offensive linemen very difficult. "I'd love to have a bunch of 320-pound guys with good feet," Calhoun said. "We've never had a 285-pound kid, which is very small for a Division I offensive lineman. We usually average 255 pounds with our offensive line."
Mandatory military service. Unlike players who sign a normal scholarship tender, athletes at the service academies sign on to serve in active military duty after college. As expected, that "is a turnoff for a lot of kids," according to new Army head coach Jeff Monken.
Apply the academic filter, and suddenly the pool of prospects shrinks. The academies are forced to recruit similar kids as Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, and the Ivy League schools, yet none of those schools have to also worry about the additional filters of weight limits and mandatory military service.
Opposing linemen regularly outweigh the academies' by 50 pounds or more. Scott Cunningham, Getty
The result is a national recruiting plan.
"I bet out of our two-deep, we might only have two that are even from this time zone," Calhoun said. "Which, that is really absurd."
That sounds really nice: "we recruit nationally." After all, that's what powerhouses like Notre Dame pride themselves on. However, Notre Dame recruits nationally because its name has enough cachet to pull players from anywhere; the Irish don't have to just stick with the players in the Midwest. The academies recruit nationally out of necessity, because they could barely fill out a team if they recruited their geographic regions.
Even with a national recruiting plan, the academies rarely beat out major-conference teams for players. And as Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo pointed out, even many lower-level FBS players think they can go to the NFL. Whether that's true or not, it cuts the service academies out of the picture for those players as well. So they tend to recruit against each other, FCS schools, and maybe a MAC school every once in awhile.
Monken arrived at Army from FCS Georgia Southern this year, and even though he jumped up a division, it might be tougher to get players now.
"I think the service academies are the most difficult places to recruit to in the nation," he said.
ARMY HEAD COACH JEFF MONKEN The recruiting rankings back that up. According to 247 Sports, Air Force was the top-ranked service academy in 2014, finishing 109th nationally. Army and Navy were 121st and 129th, respectively, finishing among a group of FCS and low-level FBS schools. Only 10 of their collective 58 commits received three-star ratings. Star ratings matter for football success, so the coaches at service academies need to be creative in their recruiting approaches.
Since there is so much information in recruiting these days, the academies can't really rely on fellow coaches to miss ready-made prospects. Instead, they take chances on players they hope to develop.
Niumatalolo said his staff will look to identify undersized offensive linemen, corners with 4.6-second 40-yard dash times, and small defensive linemen who could turn into linebackers. It's an exhausting process, but if coaches look hard enough, they can find enough players who fit the very specific profiles. Once they find those players and get them to campus for official visits, Niumatalolo claims 90 percent of them end up committing.
"Since we recruit all 50 states," he said, "I believe there are enough student-athletes out there that have good grades that are willing to serve their country after."
Adapting to the recruiting filters
The physical requirements at the service academies dictate their on-field style. All three are known for running option offenses. Navy, in particular, has become famous for perfecting the flexbone triple option. Former Navy coach Paul Johnson brought it to Georgia Tech with some success, with Monken a former assistant.
Because the academies can't have big offensive lines, they rely on athletic linemen and option misdirection to create running lanes and open up the field. The Midshipmen won a game in 2011 without completing a pass, as did Monken's GSU against Florida in 2013. In the past six years, all three academies have ranked in the FBS top four in rushing attempts per game, along with Georgia Tech.
"It's a fitting tribute to have the Air Force's newest pre-positioning vessel named after an Air Force logistician and true American patriot who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the service of his country," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III. "Captain Lyon answered the call by saying 'send me,' and exemplified the core value of service before self. I'm extremely proud that this great airman's story will become part of the legacy of this proud ship and its crew."
Lyon, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and member of the 21st Logistics Readiness Squadron out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, died Dec. 27, 2013 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when a vehicle-born improvised explosive device was detonated near his convoy. Serving a year-long deployment to Afghanistan, Lyon was performing a combat advisory mission with Afghan National army commandos and working with the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan.
Lyon was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Purple Heart and the Air Force Combat Action Medal.
The dedication of the Motor Vessel David I. Lyon continues the long-standing tradition of the Navy's Military Sealift Command by having a ship dedicated to national heroes. Lyon is the fifth Airman to receive this honor.
The MV David I. Lyon will provide responsive and agile combat support by prepositioning munitions afloat within theaters of operation in support of multiple combatant commander war-fighting and operational plan requirements. The MV David I. Lyon will provide enduring capacity for sea-based munitions movement equivalent to 78 fully loaded C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft.
While Lyon was working in Afghanistan, his wife, Capt. Dana Lyon was serving at Bagram Airfield.
When told about the decision to honor her husband with the ship renaming, she said she "was in awe and deeply honored."
"It is quite an honor that the logistics community and the Air Force recognized the man I knew him to be ... humble and selfless," she said. "Dave's favorite thing about being in the Air Force was feeling like he was in the fight and making a difference in the world. He would be very much honored and happy about having this vessel named after him because it allows him to still deliver to the warfighter ... his legacy will live on and the mission will continue despite him being gone."
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The baseball hurtles toward the batter, and he must decide from its rotation whether it's a fastball worth a swing or a slider about to drop out of the strike zone.
Running full speed, the wide receiver tracks both the football flying through the air and the defensive back on his heels. Golfers must rapidly shift visual focus in order to drive the ball at their feet toward a green in the distance.
Many athletes need excellent vision to perform well in their sports, and now many are adding something new to their practice regimens: vision training. The idea has been around for years, but only recently have studies hinted that it might really work -- that it might be possible to train yourself to see better without resorting to glasses or surgery.
"Vision training has been out there for a long time," said Mark Blumenkranz, a professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University Medical School. "But it's being made more respectable lately thanks to the attention it's been getting from psychophysicists, vision scientists, neurologists and optometrists."
Vision training actually has little to do with improving eyesight. The techniques, a form of perceptual learning, are intended to improve the ability to process what is seen. The idea is that if visual sensory neurons are repeatedly activated, they increase their ability to send electrical signals from one cell to another across connecting synapses.
If neurons are not used, over time these transmissions are weakened. "With sensory neurons, just like muscles, it's use or lose it," said Dr. Bernhard Sabel, a neuroscientist at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, who studies plasticity in the brain. "This applies both to athletes and the partially blind."
Vision training may involve simple strategies -- for instance, focusing sequentially on beads knotted at intervals on a length of string with one end held at the tip of the nose. This is said to improve convergence (inward turning of the eye to maintain binocular vision) and the ability to focus near and far.
Companies like Dynavision and Vision Coach make light boards said to strengthen peripheral vision by engaging users in a sort of game of whack-a-mole; they smack at bulbs as they flash on and off, while keeping their gaze fixed straight ahead. Increasingly, though, vision training means playing something akin to a point-and-shoot video game in which the targets get progressively harder to discern.
A study by a team of psychologists and published in February in Current Biology showed that baseball players at the University of California, Riverside, were able to improve by 30 percent their reading of eye charts -- as well as their batting averages -- after completing more than two dozen 25-minute vision training sessions using a computer program. Players who didn't receive the training did not show similar improvement.
A study of the University of Cincinnati baseball team found marked improvement in the batting averages of players following six weeks of various kinds of vision training. The team batting average went up 34 points from the previous season, exceeding improvements of other N.C.A.A. teams. Errors decreased by 15 percent, while fielding assists increased 8 percent. (One author of the study was Johnny Bench, the Hall of Fame catcher.)
In earlier studies, vision training has been found to boost the performance of table tennis players, golfers and field hockey players. But generally the sample sizes were small and variables difficult to control. (Athletes have been known to perform better just by not changing their underwear.)
Still, they build on decades of work with stroke, brain injury and glaucoma patients whose vision has been significantly improved with training. Dr. Sabel's most recent research appeared in the February issue of JAMA Ophthalmology and showed that computer-based vision training improved glaucoma patients' peripheral vision by 19 percent.
"Vision, like other sensory systems, can be improved with practice," Dr. Sabel said. "The improvements occur not in the optics of the eye, but in the central processing centers of the brain."
Dr. Blumenkranz of Stanford and other vision experts suspect that to be successful, vision training must be tailored to the individual, like physical training.
"A little discomfort is expected," as when you exert yourself lifting weights, said Al Wile, the director of sports vision at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and a longtime proponent of vision training.
In addition to improving the performance of athletes, he said he had been able to help cadets pass pilot vision proficiency tests after they had failed.
Professional teams, including the Indiana Pacers, the Brooklyn Nets, the St. Louis Rams and the Pittsburgh Steelers, also are experimenting with vision training. Shawn Windle, the head strength coach for the N.B.A.'s Pacers, said he uses the Dynavision device to improve his players' visual abilities, as well as to assess the vision of prospective draft picks.
"It's a great way for me to identify who can get their hands on the ball," he said.
Players who are already on the team tell him it has made their vision sharper. "I don't have a way of measuring that," Mr. Windle said. "But if they think it's helping, that's good enough for me."
The link to two feature stories done by KKTV's Sam Farnsworth follow below about sophomore fencer Madeline Girardot and her saving the life of a local fencer.
Here is the link to the quick segment done during the 5:30 news:
And here is the link to the complete story done during the 10:00
pm show:
For the second time in three
years, an Air Force recruiting class was awarded High Honorable Mention status
by PrepVolleyball.com, as the website recognized the Falcons' 2014 recruiting
class on May 27. PrepVolleyball.com, the only website that does a yearly
ranking of the 329 NCAA Division I volleyball recruiting classes, ranks the Top
30, awards 17 additional schools with Highest Honorable Mention and another 30 with
High Honorable Mention. Air Force's Class of 2018 arrives at the Academy for
in-processing on June 26.
The link below is to a column from Colorado Springs columnist Paul Klee and some life-changing things former Air Force football player Ben Garland is doing. Garland is a 2010 Academy graduate and is playing professionally with the Denver Broncos. Garland will be promoted to the rank of captain in the Air Force this month.
The following link is a story the Colorado Springs Gazette did on football players helping with clean up and fire mitigation in Waldo Canyon. More than 50 were on hand to help in the efforts!
In the continuing series celebrating the Air Force Academy's 60th anniversary, a historical look at the month of May follows.
1 May
2003 -- The Cadet Library is renamed theMcDermott Library, recognizing the
accomplishments of Brigadier General Robert F. McDermott, Dean of the Faculty
from 1956 until 1968.
1 May
2003 -- The Academy Singers perform at General Chuck Yeager's eightieth birthday
celebration at the Doubletree Hotel Legacy, Plano, Texas.
1 May
2003 -- General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gives
the 25th Eaker Lecture, "The New American Way of War."
1 May
2006 -- Air Force Reserve Major Jim Fabio, Class of '94, wins a sports Emmy
Award at a New York City ceremony. He
was a producer, editor, and cameraman for Lama
Kunga, the story of a Tibetan leader who takes up golf, that won
Outstanding Short Feature Story.
1 May
2007 -- Academy housing is privatized, in the care of Forest City-Hunt LLC.
1 May
2008 -- KAFA, the Academy radio station broadcasting at 97.7 FM, begins
streaming on-line. The Association of
Graduates funds the streaming, which can be accessed through the AOG website,
1 May
2009 -- Second Lieutenant Kenny Grosselin, Class of '08, receives the 2008
Cadet of the Year award at a Pentagon ceremony.
The Air Force-level award recognizes the most outstanding cadet in an
Air Force commissioning program.
1 May
2009 -- The second Air Force Academy Athletic Hall of Fame class is inducted at
a dinner at the Colorado Springs Marriott.
The class consists of: coach and
recruiting director Jim Bowman; six-time NCAA champion runner Callie (Calhoun)
Molloy (Class of '91); football players Dee Dowis ('90), Terry Isaacson ('64),
and Ernie Jennings ('71); and football coach Ben Martin (Navy '46).
1 May
2013 -- The Life Sciences Research Center is awarded its first
NRC-AFSOR-sponsored senior scientist, Dr. Patrick Hallenbeck, who comes to the
Academy from the University of Montreal in Quebec. He is assisting research
efforts involving microbial fuel cells.
2 May
2007 -- General Ronald Fogleman, Class of '63, becomes the first Air Force
Academy graduate to receive the Thomas D. White Award, accepting the 2006 honor
at a ceremony in the Library. The award,
established in 1962, is presented annually to a U.S. citizen who has
contributed significantly to the national defense of the United States.
3 May
1955 -- Mr. Carroll Tyler, General Manager of architect Skidmore, Owing and
Merrill's Air Force Academy Project, sends a letter to nature photographer
Ansel Adams, thanking him for his work photographing the Academy site, saying
"the photos are excellent and they certainly will provide our planners with a
wonderful choice for their mural presentations." The photomurals were a key component of the
firm's display later in May at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
3 May
1959 -- The human interest television series "You Asked For It" devotes its
entire 30-minute episode to the Academy, its traditions, the events leading to
its birth, its past and its future.
Filming took two weeks.
3 May
1976 -- Thomas C. Reed, Secretary of the Air Force, approves the equal semester
plan. The arrangement was introduced in the fall 1976 semester.
3 May
2011 -- The Falcon Circle is dedicated in an official ceremony, making it the
newest of the Cadet Chapel's worship areas. While open to use by all religious communities
to worship in a manner respectful of other faiths, the Earth-Centered community
receives precedence.
4 May
1963 -- The Academy hosts the First Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering
4 May 1968
-- Peggy Fleming, Olympic gold medal winner, skates at the dedication the Cadet
Ice Rink in the Academy's new Field House.
5 May
1962 -- The Louis Bleriot Speed Trophy of France, now in the Library, is
donated to the Academy. The trophy was
won on 10 May 1961 at Edwards Air Force Base when the Convair B-58 HUSTLER
exceeded 2,000 kilometers (1,302 miles) per hour. On 27 May 1961, the crew was in Paris to
accept the trophy from Mrs. Bleriot.
They stated they wanted to trophy to go to the Air Force Academy. The crew was killed shortly thereafter, and
their widows donated it to the Academy.
1974 -- Aviation pioneers Chuck Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran begin a joint
three-day visit to the Academy.
5 May
2005 -- The Honorable James A. Baker III, Chief of Staff for both President
Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush. gives the 27th Eaker Lecture.
6 May
1955 -- Models and photomurals are delivered by van to the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center for an exhibit that would show architect Skidmore, Owings and
Merrill's design for the new Academy. Included
in the exhibit were photos of the site taken in April by noted nature photographer
Ansel Adams, a job for which he was paid $1005.62.
6 May
1966 -- The Falcon Foundation gives the Academy the "Gallery of Great Airmen",
with its 67 portraits. The portraits are displayed in the exemplar
area of Fairchild Hall.
6 May
1986 -- The Association of Graduates names Russell Thayer Tutt II an Honorary
Member. Mr. Tutt was a key member of
Colorado Springs' effort to win the Air Force Academy and a dominant figure in
shaping the growth of Colorado Springs.
Honorary membership is awarded to persons who have rendered outstanding
service to the Air Force and/or the Academy.
Membership is limited to 25 living persons.
6 May
1988 -- The Tuskegee sculpture "The Black Airman" is dedicated. The statue, displayed on the Honor Court, was
sculpted by Tuskegee Airman Clarence Shivers.
It was donated by the Hooks-Jones Chapter (Colorado) of the Tuskegee
Airmen, Inc.
6 May
1989 -- The Superintendent, Lieutenant General Charles R. Hamm, marries Sandra
Hughes in the Protestant Cadet Chapel. General
Hamm had been widowed in October 1987, four months after becoming
Superintendent, when his wife, Jane, passed away suddenly.
6 May
1997 -- Ervin Rokke, Class of '62, is named as President of Moravian College
and Theological Seminary. He would begin
his tenure on 1 August.
6 May
2011 -- The Association of Graduates names Edmund L. Ladouceur an Honorary
Member. Ladouceur was the Academy's
second Music Director, and served for 28 years, serving from 1981 until
1989. Honorary membership is awarded to
persons who have rendered outstanding service to the Air Force and/or the
Academy. Membership is limited to 25
living persons.
7 May
1994 -- The Association of Graduates names Norma Nottingham an Honorary
Member. From 1981 until her 1997
retirement, Mrs. Nottingham worked in the Academy Activities Group in the
Pentagon and was the Academy's focal point for Congress in the nomination and
admissions process. Honorary membership is
awarded to persons who have rendered outstanding service to the Air Force
and/or the Academy. Membership is
limited to 25 living persons.
8 May
1987 -- The Falcon Foundation gives the Academy a 15-foot bronze eagle. The sculpture was placedon the trail between
the Visitor Center and the Cadet Chapel.
9 May
2000 -- South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond is presented the 1999 Thomas D.
White Award at a ceremony in Washington D.C.
The award, established in 1962, is presented annually to a U.S. citizen
who has contributed significantly to the national defense of the United States.
10 May
1955 -- The 739th Air Force Band (which previously resided in England and had
been deactivated in 1945) is reactivated to provide musical support for cadet
athletics and military marching units.
The band was under the command of Lieutenant Carl Costenbader.
10 May
1989 -- The Brigadier General Billy Mitchell statue is dedicated. The statue was sculpted by Lieutenant Colonel
Jerry McKenna and is displayed near Arnold Hall.
10 May
2008 -- Dr. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, is presented the 2007 Thomas
D. White Award during a visit to the Academy.
The award, established in 1962, is presented annually to a U.S. citizen
who has contributed significantly to the national defense of the United States.
10 May
2011 -- The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library establishes the
Clark-Yudkin Research Fellowship to support scholars interested in advanced
research in the McDermott Library.
10 May2012
-- Cadet First Class Dustin Hayhurst, Class of '12, receives the 2011 Cadet of the
Year award at a Pentagon ceremony. The
Air Force-level award recognizes the most outstanding cadet in an Air Force
commissioning program.
10 May
2013 -- FalconWorks receives a patent for the Therabalance, based on work done
byAcademy faculty and cadets. The Therabalance can be used by physical
therapists to help patients regain balance after strokes or injuries.
11 May
1972 -- First Lieutenant Michael Blassie, Class of '70, is killed when his
A-37B Dragonfly is shot down over Vietnam.
In 1984, his remains were buried in the Arlington National Cemetery's
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In 1996,
when suspicion of his identity heightened, his remains were exhumed and
identified. His remains were buried on
11 July 1998 in the Jefferson National Cemetery, Missouri.
11 May
1987 -- The Officers' Open Mess reopens after a five-month renovation.
11May 2004
-- A bound copy of the compendium of nearly 50 oral history interviews
completed by The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library to commemorate the
Academy's 50th Anniversary is presented to the Association of Graduates.
11 May
2007 -- The Memorial Pavilion at the Cemetery is dedicated. The Pavilion, funded by the Association of
Graduates, provides an indoor facility for events during inclement weather.
11 May
2013 -- The fourth Air Force Academy Athletic Hall of Fame class is inducted at
a dinner at the Colorado Springs Marriott.
The class consists of swimmers Karen (Reeder) Burton (Class of '84) and
Patty (Gilette) Martinez ('83), football coach Fisher DeBerry, multi-sport
athlete Parke Hinman ('64), runner Eric Mack('96), and football consensus
All-American Carlton McDonald (93).
12 May
1994 -- The Academy takes possession of an F-15 Eagle for static display. The aircraft would replace the F-104 Starfighter
on the Terrazzo.
12 May1999
-- General Colin L. Powell, United States Army, is presented the 1998 Thomas D.
White Award during a visit to the Air Force Academy. The award, established in 1962, is presented
annually to a U.S. citizen who has contributed significantly to the national
defense of the United States.
12 May 2001
-- The Association of Graduates names Fisher DeBerry an Honorary Member. DeBerry was the Academy's head football coach
from 1983 until his retirement in 2006, winning a record 169 games. Honorary membership is awarded to persons who
have rendered outstanding service to the Air Force and/or the Academy. Membership is limited to 25 living persons.
12 May
2011 -- Cadet First Class Christopher McCool, Class of '11, receives the 2010
Cadet of the Year award at a Pentagon ceremony.
The Air Force-level award recognizes the most outstanding cadet in an
Air Force commissioning program. The
award was presented by the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton Schwartz,
Class of '73.
12 May
2013 -- His Royal Highness Prince Harry of Wales visits the Academy during his
week-long visit to the United States. He
was in the country to raise awareness for the Warrior Games, which took place
at the Academy and the U.S. Olympic Training Center.
13 May
1955 -- Architectural plans and models of the Academy, as well as photos of the
undeveloped site, are presented at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center during
a three-day period beginning on this day.
The response to architect Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's modernist
design was not universally positive.
13 May
1975 -- Captain James Kays, Class of '71, and
First Lieutenant Laurence Froehlich, Class of '72, are killed when their
CH-53 helicopter crashed in Thailand en route to assist in the recovery
operation for the crew of themerchant ship the SS Mayaguez, which had been
captured by the Khmer Rouge. This was the final official act of the Vietnam War,
and Mayaguez victims are the lastnames on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
13 May
1977 -- Captain Dale Condit, an associate professor in the Department of
Engineering, Engineering Mechanics and Materials, is the recipient of the first
William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education to be given at the
13 May 2003
-- The book Falconry at the US Air Force Academy, authored by A. P.
Clark and sponsored by The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library is
released. Also released is the Friends-contracted DVD,Falconry at the Air
Force Academy, produced by Word One.
14 May
1963 -- The portrait of Brigadier General William Mitchell is unveiled in
Mitchell Hall.
14 May
2005 -- The Association of Graduates (AOG) names Nancy Burns an Honorary
Member. Ms. Burns served at the Academy
almost continuously from 1964 until 2011, including work as liaison between the
Academy and the AOG while in Protocol, Plans & Programs, and Development
& Alumni Programs. Honorary
membership is awarded to persons who have rendered outstanding service to the
Air Force and/or the Academy. Membership
is limited to 25 living persons.
14 May2011
-- The third Air Force Academy Athletic Hall of Fame classis inducted at a
dinner at the Colorado Springs Marriott.
The class consistsof athletic trainer Jim Conboy, sprinter Gail (Conway)
Gray (Class of '84), hockey player and coach Chuck Delich ('77), All-American
swimmer and Olympic pentathlete Bob Nieman ('70), and football All-American
Scott Thomas ('86).
15 May
1959 -- Pegasus, a marble replica of an original at the Italian War College,
was presented as a gift of the Italian government. The statue stood outside of Arnold Hall until
1994, when it was moved to Doolittle Hall.
15 May
1960 -- Bart Holaday, Class of '65, is offered a Falcon Scholarship. He attended prep school at New Mexico
Military Institute, and went on to become the first Falcon Foundation scholarship
recipient to earn a Rhodes Scholarship.
15 May
1961 -- The Air Force Academy Preparatory School is activated, per General
Order 10, HQ USAFA.Colonel Lee Black was its first commander.
16 May
1948 -- The Donner Air Service, owned by Robert Donner, hosted the largest air
show held in Colorado to date at Pine Valley Airport.
16 May
1959 -- President Dwight Eisenhower makes a brief, informal visit to the
Academy. He was the first person to
receive a Class of '59 diploma, which was presented to him by Cadet Herbert
Adamson, the Cadet Wing Commander.
Eisenhower was the second person to be named an honorary member of '59,
joining Lieutenant General Hubert Harmon, former Academy Superintendent. Incidentally, Eisenhower and Harmon were both
members of the West Point Class of '15.
16 May
1986 -- The nine painting collection called 'The Way of the Eagle in the Air,'
painted by the late Shlomo Katz, is gifted to the Academy by the Falcon
Foundation. The paintings are displayed
in the Cadet Chapel's Jewish Chapel.
16 May
2006 -- Chad Hennings, Class of '88, is elected to the College Football Hall of
Fame. A unanimous first-team
All-American in 1987, he received the Outland Trophy as the nation's top
interior lineman. While a member of the
Dallas Cowboys, he played in three Super Bowls.
16 May 2012
-- The Cadet Fitness Center Addition is dedicated. The $9.5 million, 50,000-square-foot center
is located on the west side of the building. It includes climbing walls, cardio equipment, aphysical
fitness testing room, a weight room and a fencing center.
17 May
1964 -- The Commandant of Cadets, Brigadier General Robert W. Strong, Jr.,
officially recognizes the Academy's group of skydivers and grants them club
17 May
1973 -- The Air Force Academy Band begins a six day tour of the Azores.
17 May
1994 -- A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the new Consolidated Education
and Training Facility (CETF) immediately east of Fairchild Hall. The $34 million project would house
laboratories, classrooms, offices, and medical facilities.
17 May
1999 -- Special Order G1 is issued, inactivating Cadet Squadrons 37, 38, 39,
and 40. Due to the reduction in the
number of cadets in the wing, the squadrons were cut, effective 1 June
1999. The squadrons were reactivated in August
17 May
2006 -- Air Force Academy Heritage: The Early Years, a book by George
Fagan, is released after being republished by The Friends of the Air Force
Academy Library.
18 May
2011 -- Cadetsbreak the Guinness World Record for the largest dodgeball game, with
3,612 cadets participatingThe previous record has been 2,136 people, set by the
Rochester Institute of Technology on May 1, 2011. By the time Guinness officially confirmed the
Academy's effort as the world record, the University of California-Irvine had fielded
4,488 students in September 2011 and broken the record.
19 May
1954 -- Court settles the final of eight claims on property used for the Air
Force Academy (out of 140 parcels, ranging in size from 0.08 acres to 4,630
19 May
1978 -- The Academy hosts the 1978 Colorado Special Olympics competition. More than 2,000 youths from around the state
participated. This was the first time a
service academy hosted a state Special Olympics event.
19 May1989
-- The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library acquires the collection of
Colonel Yvonne C. Pateman and the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
19 May
1993 -- The 8th Air Force Memorial Museum Foundation approves annual funding to
the Friends of the Air Force Academy Library.
19 May
2005 -- The Friends of the Air Force Academy Library-sponsored 50th
Anniversary Interview Compendium is presented to the Academy Library.
20 May
2009 -- First Lieutenant Roslyn Schulte, Class of 06, becomes the first female
graduate killed in action when she dies from injuries sustained in an
improvised explosive device explosion in Afghanistan.
21 May
1981 -- The Superintendent, Lieutenant General Kenneth Tallman, receives the
Order of the Sword. The Order of the
Sword is presented by enlisted members to an officer who they feel epitomizes
21 May
1981 -- The Cadet Chorale performs at the Miss USA Pageant in Biloxi,
21 May
1995 -- The Academy's SAT-B is launched on a helium-filled balloon, the
precursor of the FalconSAT projects that would follow. The mission was
successful in testing an attitude-control system designed and fabricated by
22 May
1964 -- The two-day 1964 National Collegiate Volleyball Championships begin at
the Academy.
23 May
1986 -- The Jewish Cadet Chapel rededication takes place.
23 May
1991 -- Cadet Callie Calhoun, Class of '91, wins the national 10,000 meter
title at the 1991 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in San
Angelo, Texas. It was her sixth national
championship. With the win, Cadet
Calhoun became the only Air Force track athlete to earn back-to-back national
champion honors in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
23 May
2001 -- Callie (Calhoun) Molloy, Class of '91, is inducted into the NCAA
Division II Track and Field Hall of Fame.
She won five NCAA national championships in track, with an additional win
in cross country. The presentation took
place on the tenth anniversary of her sixth national title.
23 May2012
-- President BarackH. Obama is the
graduation speaker.
24 May
1987 -- Dr. Robert H. Schuller, from the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove,
California, is the Protestant Baccalaureate guest speaker.
24 May
1999 -- The Academy Protestant Cadet Chapel hosts the funeral of General James
E. Hill, USAF, Retired. General Hill, a
World War II ace, former commander of the North American Air Defense Command,
and a prominent supporter of the Academy, is buried in the Academy Cemetery.
25 May
1954 -- The architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill submits its
questionnaire indicating its desire to design and construct the air force
academy. Walter Andrew Netsch, Jr., age
34, was lead architect of the project.
25 May1981
-- A dedication ceremony is held for the 40 foot tall American Legion Memorial
Tower, in memory of all who have served their country from the Revolutionary
War to the present. The tower was displayed
on the hill west of the Cadet Chapel until 22October 1996, when it was moved to
its new site at the Academy Cemetery.
25 May
1982 -- The Academy hosts the 1982 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics
for Women's Division II National Golf Championships. The Air Force team finished sixthin the
four-day tournament.
25 May
1990 -- Cadet Callie Calhoun, Class of '91, wins the national 3000 meter title
at the 1990 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Hampton,
Virginia. This was the first of her
three outdoor national championships.
25 May
2010 -- The inaugural Lieutenant Roslyn L. Schulte Cadet Character and
Leadership Award is presented at a ceremony in the Library. First Lieutenant Schulte, Class of '06, the
first female graduate killed in action, died in Afghanistan in May 2009. The award recognizes the senior cadet who
best exemplifies the Air Force core values.
Cadet Mychol Alexander, Class of '10, was the first recipient.
25 May
2011 -- The Class of 2011 graduates with the lowest attrition in Academy
history - 20.1%.
25 May
2013 -- The Air Force Academy Facebook page hits 100,000 fans.
26 May
1953 -- The combined firms of Gugler, Kimball and Husted, and Harbeson, Hough,
Livingston, and Larson are awarded a $106,000 contract to prepare
"Architectural and Engineering studies for an Air Academy situated on a
hypothetical site."
26 May
1960 -- The first class to graduate from the new Air Academy High School
building walk across the stage located at one end of the
gym. Thirty-nine seniors received their
diplomas from School Board President Russell Wolfe.
26 May
1990 -- Cadet Callie Calhoun, Class of '91, wins the 5000 meter national
championship at the 1990 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships
in Hampton, Virginia.
26 May
2010 -- Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers the
commencement address, becoming the first chairman to do so.
27 May
1992 -- The Class of '92 graduates. With
1,076 members, '92 is the largest graduating class in Academy history.
27 May
2008 -- The first statue in the Mall of Heroes, located between Fairchild and
Vandenberg Halls, is dedicated. That
statue depictsFirst Lieutenant Karl Richter, Class of '64, who was shot down
and killed on his 198th combat mission in Vietnam. The Mall and the statue are gifts of the
Class of '64, and the ceremony was conducted before the Class of '08 graduated,
as he was the class exemplar.
28 May
1954 -- Charles Lindbergh and other members of the Air Force Academy Site
Selection Commission visit the proposed academy site near Colorado Springs .
28 May
1958 -- Air Academy High School conducts its first graduation. The ceremony was held on the front lawn of
the Carlton mansion, the Superintendent's residence. Major General James Briggs, the
Superintendent, addressed the graduating class.
Seven students had completed the requirements for graduation. The Air Force Academy woodwind quintet
provided the music.
28 May
1968 -- An F-105 Thunderbird is installed on the Terrazzo. The plane was created from ten different
aircraft with combat duty in Southeast Asia, with much of the work was done by
the 2951st Combat Logistics Support Squadron at McClellan AFB, California. Dedicated three days later, it resurrected
the Thunderchief serial No. 60-0482.
28 May
1980 -- Graduation is held for the class of '80, which includes the first 97
female graduates. Kathleen Conley,
ranked eighth overall, was the first female to graduate.
28 May
1986 -- The Visitor Center, named after Senator Barry Goldwater, is
dedicated. The facility was the result
of a $4.5 million venture of the Air Force Academy Foundation and the Air Force
Academy Athletic Association.
28 May
1986 -- Terrie Ann McLaughlin, Class of '86, becomes the first female cadet to
graduate number one in the class order of merit.
28 May
1991 -- The Association of Graduates holds a groundbreaking ceremony for its
new alumni house.
28 May1997
-- Captain Amy Svoboda, Class of 1989, is killed in an A-10 crash near Gila
Bend, Arizona, earning the somber distinction of being the first female fighter
pilot in the Air Force to die in service.
28 May2008
-- President George W. Bush is the graduation speaker.
29 May
1958 -- The first Ring Dinner and Dance is held, with the dinner in Mitchell
Hall and the dance in Arnold Hall.
29 May
1970 -- The Academy receives the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for exceptionally
meritorious service.
29 May
1980 -- Entertainer Bob Hope visits the Academy on his 77th
29 May
1991 -- President George H. W. Bush is the graduation speaker.
29 May
1996 -- General Ronald R. Fogleman, Class of '63, while Chief of Staff of the
Air Force, becomes the first graduate to serve as graduation speaker.
29 May
2013 -- Due to Pentagon-wide automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, the
Thunderbirds were unable to perform at graduation. In their place, volunteers arranged for
graduation-week flyovers by several heritage aircraft, to include two P-51s, a
B-25, and a P-40.
30 May
1959 -- At a noon ceremony, the cadet dining hall is officially named Mitchell
Hall, after Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, an outspoken advocate
for air power. His son and daughter-in
law attended the ceremony. This was the
first of five building dedications to take place over three days.
30 May
1959 -- Mildred Miller, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano, is the guest soloist
for the Cadet Chorale's first on-site concert, in Arnold Hall. Ms. Miller was the wife of Lieutenant Colonel
(later Brigadier General) Wesley Posvar, head of the Department of Political
Science. Posvar, the first Air Force
officer to receive a Rhodes Scholarship, went on to become chancellor of the
University of Pittsburgh.
30 May
1979 -- Cadet David Rhodes, Class of '79, becomes the first graduate to achieve
a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average.
30 May
1984 -- President Ronald Reagan speaks at graduation. Security screening prevented some parents and
guests from getting into Falcon Stadium before the President finished his
speech. The Federal Aviation Agency
representative cancelled the Thunderbirds performance because the parking lot
was not clear of people.
30 May
1993 -- Dr. James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, is the Protestant
Baccalaureate guest speaker.
30 May
2005 -- On the day they were promoted, special tactics officers Captain Jeremy
Fresques, Class of '01, and Captain Derek Argel, Class of '01, are killed when
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this thread is nothing but BS go on against Islam but whatever you say wont change the fact that Islam is right path to the only truth ,2000 years back from now there were much haters and stronger unbelievers than yourselves,but Allah is almighty the stronger ,the first and the last is capable of protecting his words and his believers.
Where in the Quran is the Mahdi spoken of?
it's not in Quraan, the Mahdi story came through prophet Mohamed's (pbuh) Hadeith
So it is not inspired by Allah, but written by man.
It's fiction.
may be it's fiction for you ,but for who believes in Allah is not at all abecause he knows that Quraan and Hadeith are the two faces of the same coin .
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Surah 7:3
The Quran is complete, fully detailed, an explanation of all things. Surah 12:111
You follow the teachings of man, making it equal with the Word of Allah.
That's associating partners to Allah.
You are calling Allah a liar by following outside of the Quran.
Surah 14:30
i ask the forgiveness of Allah that i didn't know about it ,that's only my ignorance .
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Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Read in the name of Allah. Surah 92:1
The Quran is easy to read and comprehend. Surah 22:14
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