The US Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colo., announced last week that its applications for the Class of 2014 had increased over the previous year by 17.2 percent overall and 36 percent for minorities. An average class comprises 1,300 students. The academy received nearly, 11,600 applications, about 1,700 more than for the 2013 class. Of those, there were 4,029 minority applications, an increase of 1,070 over the previous class. The USAFA release credited the success to the academy’s “focused efforts over the last several years to reach out to minorities and individuals in areas of the country that are underrepresented at the academy.”
The total number of reported sexual assaults in the Department of the Air Force ticked up about two percent in 2024 while still trailing the total from 2022, as Pentagon officials say a hiring freeze on federal government civilian employees limits their ability to fill critical sexual assault prevention and…