The United States Air Force Academy is a United States service academy in Air Force Academy, Colorado, immediately north of Colorado Springs. It educates cadets for service in the officer corps of the
Cadets from the first USAFA class lined up for physical training at Lowry AFB in 1955
The academy's class of 2020 was the first to graduate new officers into the United States Space Force.
Interior of Cadet Chapel
The Class Wall is located just below the Cadet Chapel.
Richard Stephen Ritchie
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Brigadier General Richard Stephen Ritchie served as an officer in the United States Air Force and the Colorado Air National Guard, and a general officer in the Air Force Reserve. Ritchie joined Navy C
Ritchie, circa 1973
Capt. Steve Ritchie, 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, pictured beside the aircraft in which he became the first Air Force ace of the Vietnam War
Collings Foundation F-4D Phantom II marked as 555TFS 66–7463, flown by Ritchie for 1st and 5th kills
Brig. Gen. Steve Ritchie, dressed in an A-2 leather flight jacket, poses for an informal portrait prior to September 1996