# 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY -- ON THE THRESHOLD OF TRADITION - USAF ACADEMY 1954-1979

Department of Defense PIN 50934 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY -- ON THE THRESHOLD OF TRADITION - USAF ACADEMY 1954-1979 COVERS THE 25 YEARS SINCE THE ENABLING LEGISLATION FOUNDING OF THE ACADEMY. DESCRIBES BASIC MISSION AND CURRICULUM. NARRATED BY MEN WHO WERE IN THE FIRST CLASS UP THROUGH A CADET IN THE CLASS OF 1979. SEVERAL CADETS GIVE THEIR VIEWS ON WHICH FACET OF TRAINING BENEFITTED MOST IN THEIR CAREERS. INVOLVED ARE: THE FIRST GRADUATE TO BECOME A GENERAL OFFICER, A VIETNAM ACE, A FORMER POW, AN ASTRONAUT, THE FIRST FOOTBALL ALL-AMERICAN, ETC. THE COMMANDANT DISCUSSES DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES OF CADETS OVER THE YEARS, AND REVIEWS THE ACADEMY'S GROWTH IN ITS FIRST QUARTER CENTURY.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1979
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.50934)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.