in what state was the air force academy established?
Colorado
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 Exercises at a Booker T. Washington monument located at the Tuskegee Institute commemorated the beginning of black American pre @-@ flight training for military aviation . The first twelve candidates for officer @-@ flier positions were cited by America 's black press as , " the cream of the country 's colored youth . " The first classes started at the institute , and flying lessons soon began at the Tuskegee Army Air Field ( TAAF ) some approximately ten miles away . After it was built , government press releases recounted that the air field was developed and built by Negro contractors both skilled and unskilled . Of the original class , five students graduated in March 1942 . 

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 " Cadets " underwent training in artillery and engineering studies at the garrison since 1794 . In 1801 , shortly after his inauguration as president , Thomas Jefferson directed that plans be set in motion to establish at West Point the United States Military Academy . He selected Jonathan Williams to serve as its first superintendent . Congress formally authorized the establishment and funding of the school with the Military Peace Establishment Act of 1802 , which Jefferson signed on 16 March . The academy officially commenced operations on 4 July 1802 . The academy graduated Joseph Gardner Swift , its first official graduate , in October 1802 . He later returned as Superintendent from 1812 to 1814 . In its tumultuous early years , the academy featured few standards for admission or length of study . Cadets ranged in age from 10 years to 37 years and attended between 6 months to 6 years . The impending War of 1812 caused the United States Congress to authorize a more formal system of education at the academy and increased the size of the Corps of Cadets to 250 . 

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 By an act of Congress on October 1 , 1942 , during Olds ' Second Class year , the academy began a three @-@ year curriculum for the duration of the war for cadets entering after July 1939 . Cadets applying to the Air Corps were classified as Air Cadets , with a modified curriculum that provided flying training but eliminated Military Topography and Graphics required for Ground Cadets . Olds ' class was given an abridged second class course of study until January 19 , 1943 , when it began an abridged first class course . 

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 In May 1938 the Air Corps conducted one of the largest maneuvers in its history . 468 officers , 2 @,@ 380 enlisted men , and 131 aircraft were drawn from all three wings of the GHQ Air Force and based at 18 airports in the northeast United States , " from Schenectady , New York , and Aberdeen , Maryland , westward to Harrisburg , Pennsylvania " . Included were eight B @-@ 17s of the 2d Bombardment Group . All were assigned as the " Blue Force " defending New England from the " Black Force " , an attacking aircraft carrier fleet . The Navy , involved in fleet exercises off the West Coast , did not provide ships to play the role of the Black Force . The Army publicized the resulting scenario as depicting simultaneous attacks on America by hostile fleets on both coasts , with the Air Corps tasked to defend against one of them . 

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 The United States Air Force Academy Falcons began the 1984 college football season with a new head coach , Fisher DeBerry , who replaced the successful Ken Hatfield . Hatfield and the Falcons had gone 10 – 2 during 1983 , including a win in the 1983 Independence Bowl . Following that win , Hatfield accepted the head @-@ coaching position at the University of Arkansas and DeBerry was hired to replace him , being promoted from the offensive coordinator position . 
