Five years after they were given the ax due to Pentagon budget cuts, the Air Force Academy is putting 40 training sergeants back into its cade…
Army Cpl. James Loder’s daughter, Emersyn, was 5½ months old when he finally met her Tuesday.
The wife of a former Fort Carson soldier who was shot to death Dec. 31 outside of his father’s Michigan home has been charged with his murder.
BEIRUT — The U.S. military says a number of service members were killed Wednesday in an explosion while conducting a routine patrol in Syria —…
Millicent Young had dreamed of flying since she was 6, after a pilot who had landed a plane on her family’s Nebraska farm told her: “Don’t tou…
The Air Force Academy’s athletic program will get an ombudsman to deal with complaints and a new system for cadets to anonymously report conce…
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The GoFundMe campaign that aimed to raise $1 billion for the border wall is shutting down, and the $20 million raised will be refunded to donors.
WASHINGTON • U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has joined other senators in demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs about what they a…
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The Marines will be landing in Colorado Springs soon.
A Fort Carson, Colorado, soldier sought for an Indiana slaying had been in the Army for seven months before allegedly deserting his post. Spc.…
WASHINGTON — On his final day as secretary of defense, Jim Mattis on Monday urged all Pentagon employees, military and civilian, to "hold fast…
Despite new rules addressing sexual assault among the children of U.S. service members, the federal government failed to fix a flaw that on ma…
As we enter 2019, the Pentagon will have quite a few resolutions.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's attorney general says a Colorado-based charity has agreed to spend $425,000 on programs benefiting veterans and …
AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq (AP) — In an unannounced trip to Iraq on Wednesday, President Donald Trump staunchly defended his decision to withdraw U…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is starting to lose a high-tech advantage as China and Russia develop sophisticated artificial intelligence, Pe…
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw a test Wednesday of a new hypersonic glide vehicle, declaring that the weapon is impossible …
Crews at the North American Aerospace Defense Command are ready for their biggest annual mission: tracking an elusive target that propels a be…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has launched the U.S. Air Force's most powerful GPS satellite ever built.
A ceremony held in Alaska last week brought one more honor for Fort Carson troops who battled through the post’s deadliest day in Afghanistan.
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On a military base in the Mideast, the location of which is a secret, there is a giant room with more than 70 seats facing a two-story bank of…
WASHINGTON — The extraordinary resignation letter that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis handed to a surprised President Donald Trump was not just …
If neither Mexico nor Congress is going to fund President Trump’s border wall, then Brian Kolfage has a more expedient plan: GoFundMe.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw American troops from Syria was made hastily, without consulting his national securi…
The renovation of the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel has been delayed, giving the public until June to get a glimpse of the iconic landmark be…
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from S…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is developing plans to withdraw up to half of the 14,000 American troops serving in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said…
Yes, Virginia, NORAD will track Santa on Christmas Eve, even if the government shuts down.
Colorado’s U.S. senators are demanding that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs take action to reduce wait times at the agency’s health ca…
If you want to see the Air Force Academy’s iconic chapel in all its leaky glory, you’d better hurry.
The U.S. Navy has warned that the Blue Angels may participate in fewer air shows in 2020 in the event that Congress fails to reach an agreemen…
DENVER • After months of delays, the Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more accurat…
WASHINGTON • The U.S. military is starting to lose a high-tech advantage as China and Russia develop sophisticated artificial intelligence, Pe…
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After the Pentagon spent the past several months bracing for belt-tightening in 2019, the Trump administration has changed course, reportedly …
Nathan Pine, now athletic director at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, has been named athletic director at the Air Force Academy. H…
A top space policy expert will be the next commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Brig. Gen. Michele …
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The Army came up nearly 11,000 short of its yearly recruiting goals for active-duty and Reserve troops in 2018, but that doesn’t mean the serv…
Donald Stratton, one of five surviving sailors who was aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, was lionized Friday as Colorado Springs paused …
More than four years after the Department of Veterans Affairs ordered a probe into long waits at the Floyd Lindstrom Clinic in Colorado Spring…
For three days in August, Col. David Zinn saw something that few Americans have seen during 17 years of combat in Afghanistan.
More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7…
The local chapter of the Navy League will host a ceremony Friday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
The U.S. Postal Service expects to process more than 16.2 million pounds of mail for U.S. military and diplomatic corps members living oversea…
President George H.W. Bush delivered the commencement address at the Air Force Academy on May 29, 1991.
