The full cadet wing at the Air Force Academy will again be in attendance for the full football schedule.

The academy announced on Thursday that it would revert to the previous policy of making attendance at Falcon Stadium mandatory for all of the roughly 4,000 cadets.

Last year brought several changes to that policy, eventually landing on the decision to have the full cadet wing at the opener on Parents’ Day Weekend and for home games against rival service academies and half of the cadets at the other four home games. At one point the plan was to have just a quarter of the cadets at some games.

The 2024 change was a break from the longtime norm for the service academies, which have always had the backing of all of their cadets at their games.

At Air Force, the cadet march-on is routine

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