Serving Colorado Springs & the Pikes Peak region since 1872 | Sunday, May 19, 2013
Three local troops were recognized Friday as the 2013 Outstanding Enlisted Military Representatives at the annual Armed Forces Week Luncheon at The Broadmoor. Senior Airman Gordon T. Burton, Air Force Staff Sgt. Donald W. Wheat III and Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Anthony B. Iadevaia were named as winners in the junior enlisted,...
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has started a program nationwide offering expedited screening for severely injured members of the U.S. Armed Forces, including competitors in the Warrior Games who were leaving Colorado Springs on Friday, the day after the event ended. The agency set up a special lane Friday at the Colorado...
Free tickets to the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony - featuring a speech by the secretary of the Air Force - will be available Thursday. About 500 tickets will be offered first come, first served, the academy said Tuesday. The batch of tickets will be available at two locations: the Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance and the...
WASHINGTON - After weeks of debate and number-crunching, the Defense Department announced plans Tuesday to furlough about 680,000 of its civilian employees - including thousands of people in the Pikes Peak region - for 11 days in the last three months of this fiscal year. The military is allowed only limited exceptions to avoid or reduce the...
Fire Department, the 10th Civil Engineering Squadron and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crews at the Air Force Academy will conduct controlled burns Tuesday. About half an acre south of the chapel and west of Falcon Stadium will be burned starting at 10 a.m., firefighter Travis Perkins said. The burns are meant to preserve a state-protected...
For about 70 years, the Sears family served in the U.S. Marine Corps with nary a scratch. But luck ran out for Cpl. Ivan Sears, who lost both his lower legs to an improvised explosive device while on patrol in 2010 in Afghanistan. It started a three-year recovery process that continues with his first Warrior Games, which continue through...
The best Mother's Day gift for Terri Faulkner of Greeley was watching her teenage daughter Rachel near British Prince Harry. 'Good Lord Almighty, ' Terri said. 'It's fun to see her so excited. I am letting her have this day because she has been talking about this for weeks. ' Rachel was one of a couple hundred people who crowded the...
New York-based pop artist Charles Fazzino has been tapped to create the official artwork for the 2013 Warrior Games, which open Saturday in Colorado Springs. Known for vibrant, highly-detailed silk screens that create a feeling of three-dimensionality, Fazzino is an officially licensed artist for the U.S. Olympic Committee, the NFL and Major...
Donors help out Home Front Cares A local military charity received more than $60,000 in donations last month - money that will allow the group to assist a greater number of veterans with emergency expenses. The Home Front Cares received donations from six organizations: Lockheed Martin, $25,000; Energy Outreach Colorado, $10,500; El Pomar...
Mitchell High School Mitchell High School's Air Force Junior ROTC unit has received the Distinguished Unit Award for the 2012-13 academic year. The award recognizes cadets' outstanding accomplishments, the contributions of the instructors as mentors, and the support of the school and community. Fewer than 19 percent of the 867 Air Force JROTC...
On April 10, the Academy Board returned American history to its core curriculum for a select group of cadets starting in the fall semester. The board brought back the course, previously part of the core curriculum from 1962 to 1987, amid concerns Air Force Academy graduates did not have a deep enough historical understanding of the U.S....
After five years and an estimated $1 billion spent trying to build a single integrated electronic health record system with the Department of Veterans Affairs, defense health officials have been taken off the project, sources confirm. Wielding the hook was Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who signaled disappointment with his management team to a...
Popular chef and television personality Alton Brown charmed cadets, faculty and staff from the Air Force Academy's chemistry department with humor and food science knowledge during the eighth annual Chemistry Majors Dining-Out event at the Antlers Hilton. About 150 cadets, professors, academy leaders and guests attended the April 26 event to...
he door opened. Iceland appeared before Mark Wise. A blizzard raged, he remembers. White-out conditions - winds howling at 40 mph. In a word, that minus 4-degree air was 'brutal. ' He stayed calm. Wise recalled approaching that day like every other 'brutal ' day he's encountered over the past 31/2 years. He faced it the same way he...
When Sean Hook cries, he cries big, thick tears. They are tears of pain; the physical pain of being 'blown up three times ' in Iraq, the emotional pain of being a father who needs an iPhone reminder to pick up the kids from school. The tears didn't come when his platoon was hit with an IED, or even the second time his platoon was hit with an...
