"What defines an institution's core principles? They're what's left when you cut everything else away.
A fiscal year 2015 budget drill, held in the spring of 2013, forced Academy officials to take a close look at what programs fit into the Academy's foremost mission: to educate, train and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the Air Force in service to their nation. If the Academy cut programs until it couldn't cut any further, what would be left?"
http://www.usafa.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123406195
A fiscal year 2015 budget drill, held in the spring of 2013, forced Academy officials to take a close look at what programs fit into the Academy's foremost mission: to educate, train and inspire men and women to become officers of character motivated to lead the Air Force in service to their nation. If the Academy cut programs until it couldn't cut any further, what would be left?"
http://www.usafa.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123406195