Author: Michael Swaney

The COVID vaccine obsession within government institutions is once again rearing its ugly head, this time at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado. Graduates of the academy -who commission into the USAF- may be forced to repay up to $200k in tuition costs if they refused the COVID vaccine. While cadets will receive their […]

O’Dell Isaac The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) May 18—A senior Air Force Academy cadet who faces the possibility of being kept from graduating with his classmates after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds has begun proceedings to resign from the school, according to an academy official. The cadet, whose name was not released, has […]

David Wichner The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson The Air Force has for now dropped plans to retire most of the A-10 ground-attack jets that form a major mission at Tucson’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, after the plan was rebuffed by Congress last year. But the Air Force is again moving to retire some A-10s, and recently revealed documents show more than […]

Airmen at North Dakota’s Minot Air Force Base are being given a strict order by their superiors: stop killing prairie dogs with blowguns. The issue appears to surround two things common with the remote location, namely boredom and prairie dogs. Minot officials are paying special focus to on-base housing, as the use of said blow […]

Hugh Johnson The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) May 4—The Air Force Academy announced on Wednesday the death of a cadet from complications caused by a fall last month. Cadet 4th Class Christopher Scott Ryong Adams suffered “severe injuries” in a fall on April 23 during personal recreation, according to Commandant of Cadets Brig. Gen. Paul Moga. Conner Adams, who said […]

Thomas Gnau Springfield News-Sun, Ohio Apr. 26—After an Air Force judge handed down her sentence Tuesday, the former commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has a felony conviction on his record and faces a nearly $55,000 forfeiture of pay as well as a reprimand that may impact his career and retirement. An Air Force judge sentenced Maj. Gen. William Cooley to […]

Thomas Gnau Dayton Daily News, Ohio A military judge found Air Force Maj. Gen. William Cooley guilty of one charge of abusive sexual contact on the sixth day of an historic court-martial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Air Force Judge Col. Christina Jimenez deliberated for some five hours Friday before recessing for the day. The verdict was pronounced as soon as […]

Thomas Gnau Springfield News-Sun, Ohio Apr. 21—The mother of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Cooley today testified during her son’s court-martial at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that her son told her in 2018 that he had “made a pass” at his sister-in-law. “That’s what I recall,” testified the mother, Eleanor Cooley, adding later in her time on the witness stand: […]

Thomas Gnau Springfield News-Sun, Ohio Apr. 18—Selection of a jury of two- and three-star generals starts today at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the court-martial of a former Air Force Research Laboratory commander accused of kissing and touching a woman without her consent. The military trial was set to begin Jan. 10 at Wright-Patterson, where Maj. Gen. WIlliam Cooley worked with […]

Ryan Boetel Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Apr. 14—It’s an aptly named, high-tech space lab with a need for speed. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate on Tuesday cut the ribbon on the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, Laboratory, a 14,000-square-foot addition to an existing lab on Kirtland Air Force Base. The new laboratory will bring […]