We are pleased to announce that the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) will be joining Prospector early this week. USAFA was originally founded in 1947 after much growth in the nation's military aviation service. In 1955 the first 306 male cadets where signed in at a temporary military base at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. On June 28, 1976, USAFA welcomed it's first class of 157 female cadets. The original cadet population at the Academy was 2,529. However, in 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law increasing the size to 4,417 cadets, matching the size of the Naval Academy.

USAFA offers a rigorous curriculum with a balance of STEM and humanities programs. The McDermott library supports that curriculum with a host of resources from traditional print books to ebooks and databases. The Clark Special Collections branch, named after L.T. General AP Clark, housed in the main library, includes photographs, oral histories, yearbooks, building plans, reports, and other papers and publications. Fans of aeronautical history will be especially intrigued by the Gimbel Aeronautical Library and the Falconry Collections, both housed in Clark Special Collections. For further information about the Academy see: https://www.usafa.edu/about/history/.