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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Oh no... not the Zoo!  (What some Air Force Academy alumni disparagingly name their alma mater.)
Alpha Sig,
Home of the Zoomies! Actually, one of my very favorite stadiums from which to televise football games is Falcon Stadium. (Actually, all three service schools are beautiful places to shoot)
Spent time in technical school at Lowry AFB in Denver. (The base is now closed and was successfully converted to a planned community.)
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Lots of big expensive new houses.
Did a simulated 1940's USO type show there several years ago to raise money for a veteran's monument which is now across from the Colorado Capitol building. It was a Christmas time. Bob Hope was the star, big band (Shades of Blue from the Academy), dancers, comics, Miss Colorado all staged in front of the B-52 inside Hangar One. Could not broadcast the show, but microwaved it over to Fitzsimmons (Army Medical Center) for the patients.
As I'm sure you know, the "Air Force Academy" actually opened at Lowry before the campus was completed at the Springs.
That's another thing to point out about Colorado. Lots of military. NORAD, US Space Command, Peterson AFB, Falcon Air Station, Buckley AFB (just taken back over by the Air Force after being an ANG base), Ft. Carson, etc.