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The Air Force Academy’s 2015 football schedule

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The Air Force Academy football season kicks off in less than a month, with the Falcons taking on Morgan State to open the season on Saturday, Sept. 5. The Falcons look to build on a 2014 season where they finished 10-3, with a 38-24 win over Western Michigan in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. USAFA will take on Navy on Oct. 3 and Army on Nov. 7. The Academy won last year’s Commander in Chief’s Trophy, for the winner of the triangular rivalry between the service academies. The Air Force has won the trophies the most of the three, with…

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In this 2013 photo, Air Force Academy Falcons freshman quarterback Nate Romine runs for a touchdown. Romine took over for starter Karson Roberts who suffered a concussion. Officials say sports are responsible for half of all concussions at the academy. (Courtesy U.S. Air Force/Mike Kaplan)

USAFA Cadets aid in concussion study

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U.S. Air Force Academy cadets are helping the NCAA in a national study on concussions, the service announced. Hundreds of cadets took part in the research July 13, the Air Force said in a press release. It’s part of a three-year, $30 million joint program by the Pentagon and the National Collegiate Athletic Association to better understand concussions that have bene plaguing both sports and the military. “The collected results of these evaluations will be compiled into a database and form a baseline of a cadet’s complete physical assessment,” Col. Darren Campbell, the director of the academy’s Concussion Center, said…

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An F-35A Lightning II aircraft from Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, breaks hard left trailing wingtip vortexes behind as it arrives at Hill Air Force Base, Utah where it will be seen on static display during the 34th Fighter Squadron’s activation ceremony held July 17 at Hill AFB. The 34th will be the first combat squadron to fly the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft, the F-35A. The squadron has an extremely rich history. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd/Released)

Hill activates first F-35 squadron

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Hill Air Force Base, Utah, has its new F-35 squadron, but does not have the jets yet. The 34th Fighter Squadron reactivated during a ceremony July 17 at the base, which will be the first operational home for the Air Force’s variant of the stealth fighter. The squadron returned to life after being deactivated as an F-16 unit in 2010. The squadron can trace its lineage back to World War II through Vietnam, according to the Air Force. The maintainers who will work on the jets have been at the base for two months to prepare for the arrival. The…

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Iraqi F-16s to fly out of Iraq, not Jordan

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Iraqi F-16s and pilots will not be based out of Jordan, as reported by Iraqi media, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said. Abed Issawi, a Shiite member of Iraq’s parliament, had told reporters that that the U.S. government was demanding that the Iraqi F-16s fly combat missions from Jordan, not Iraq, according to Rudaw, a Kurdish media outlet. “We have information the US has decided that the three F-16s should carry out airstrikes from the land of Jordan while Iraq has a big airbase in the Ziqar province in southern Iraq,” Rudaw quoted Issawi as saying. But…

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Transgender troops attending White House LGBT Pride event

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A transgender airman and his financée, a transgender soldier, will attend Wednesday’s LGBT Pride Month reception. Both Senior Airman Logan Ireland and Army Cpl. Laila Villanueva were the subject of the recent documentary “Transgender, at War and in Love,” directed and produced by Fiona Dawson. The Air Force has been supportive of Ireland’s decision to serve as an openly transgender airman. He will attend Wednesday’s event in a male dress blue uniform. “Being invited to the White House as an actively serving transgender airman is one of the most humbling experiences of my life so far,” Ireland said in a…

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Law enforcement officers search for escaped prisoners near Essex, N.Y., Tuesday, June 9, 2015. State and federal law officers searching for two killers who used power tools to break out of a maximum-security prison poured into a small town 30 miles away Tuesday after getting a report of a possible sighting. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

An Air Force connection?

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The New York prison escape that has grabbed national headlines this week seems to have a tangential connection to the Air Force. Police are investigating whether Joyce Mitchell, a civilian prison supervisor who oversaw sewing operations at the prison, became involved with the two escapees and planned to, but didn’t, drive their getaway car. A photo of Mitchell that news sites took from her Facebook page shows her wearing a shirt that says “Air Force Mom. I raised a Hero!” Next to her is a younger man with Airman First Class insignia. NBC News on Wednesday interviewed Tobey Mitchell, whom…

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