Class of 2029 cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy have begun their Basic Cadet Training. This week, they made the 6.2-mile ...

The second phase of Basic Cadet Training, or the “Second Beast,” consists of field training activities and challenging ...

Hunter Marquez expected to be commissioned into the Air Force after graduating in May, but Trump's ban on transgender service ...

But, on Thursday, when the time came for the U.S. Air Force Academy’s class of 2025 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to commission as second lieutenants, three cadets were quietly held back.

To become an Air Force Academy cadet, a student must be at least 17 years old, but not yet 23, by July 1 of the year they would enter the school. For the most part, they must be U.S. citizens.