Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More

Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled with wokeness, recruitment, and declining standards, great again.

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Watching the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds during the commencement ceremony of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., May 30, 2024

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Whether it’s the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff stating in a congressional hearing that he hopes to understand his “white rage,” or an official memorandum about establishing “aspirational” race and sex quotas for officers, it’s clear that partisan ideology has supplanted competency as the defining attribute of our current military’s leaders. Nowhere has this leftward shift been more apparent than at the United States Air Force Academy and its newfound obsession with indoctrinating cadets in woke, anti-American ideology.

Although not comprehensive, the following list provides five things that the new secretary of defense and the incoming secretary of the Air Force could immediately do to restore the Academy to its core mission: developing and training future combat leaders for our Air Force and Space Force.

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Patrick Bobko

Patrick “Kit” Bobko is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy who practices law in Southern California.

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