With the threat of being dragged into court hanging over head, the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base has decided to reschedule its industry days for this year. The planned annual event was scheduled to occur Sept. 25 to 27, which would have put it in conflict with the celebration of Yom Kippur, which also is known as the Day of Atonement, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog organization, was having none of that. The foundation was prepared to take the center to federal court to get an injunction to stop the event…
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***UPDATE*** Air Force Times has learned that the Space and Missile Systems Center is planning to reschedule its industry days out of respect to the Jewish celebration of Yom Kippur. Stay tuned! Whomever scheduled this year’s Space and Missile Systems Center industry days for Sept. 25 through Sept. 27, might need to repent if they don’t move the event to another set of days. It just so happens that this year’s event has been scheduled at exactly the same time that Jewish people observe what is considered the holiest day of their calendar, Yom Kippur, or the Day of…
Sixty days ago, the Air Force said it would give “appropriate consideration” to allegations that the Air Force Academy’s dean of faculty ordered a campaign against a religious freedom watchdog group and then lied about it during a deposition. And low and behold the organization in question — the Military Religious Freedom Foundation — wants to know what the Air Force has found since it began it’s considering. The foundation has pressed the Air Force to investigate allegations that Brig. Gen. Dana Born directed a subordinate, in writing, to launch a campaign against the watchdog group and then denied it…
When Military Religious Freedom Foundation found out Air Force Academy higher-ups had not distributed a memo on religious neutrality to everyone on campus, the watchdog group took matters into its own hands. It posted the memo of Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz, dated Sept.1, on a billboard for all of Colorado Springs to see. In the memo Schwartz cautions Air Force leaders not to proselytize or show favoritism toward a particular faith. The memo came about a month after the Air Force suspended an ethics course for new nuclear missile officers that contained biblical references, and announced a review of…
