{"id":1921398,"date":"2023-04-29T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-awards-football-trophy-to-air-force-academy\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T23:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T03:43:12","slug":"biden-awards-football-trophy-to-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-awards-football-trophy-to-air-force-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Awards Football Trophy to Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-awards-football-trophy-to-air-force-academy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>President Biden Awards Commander-in-Chief&#8217;s Trophy to Air Force Academy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0429\/649142a1-3ef8-4f68-a2d8-5b453b44db6a\/audio.mp3?length=1001709&#038;duration=83\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a win for the Air Force Academy as President Joe Biden awarded them the Commander-in-Chief&#8217;s Trophy for their football victories against their U.S. service academy rivals. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bills-players-have-to-dig-out-their-cars-after-returning-to-buffalo-following-massive-winter-storm\/\" title=\"WATCH: Bills Players Must Dig Out Their Cars after Returning From Buffalo After Massive Winter Storm\">team gathered<\/a> in the White House&#8217;s East Room to receive the prestigious award.<\/p>\n<p>Biden praised the academy for embodying the values of duty, teamwork, service, and excellence, which are essential to the soul of the nation. He commended the team for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-widow-stranger-things-star-david-harbour-says-no-one-could-disagree-with-socialism\/\" title=\"Black Widow, Stranger Things Star David Harbour Says No One Could Disagree With Socialism\">outstanding performance<\/a> and contribution to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Falcons had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/where-are-the-feminists-supporting-gina-carano\/\" title=\"Where Are The Feminists Supporting Gina Carano?\">impressive record<\/a> of 10-3, beating both the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy during last year&#8217;s collegiate football season. They also won against Baylor University 30-15 in the Armed Forces Bowl, which Biden said was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-awards-football-trophy-to-air-force-academy\/\" title=\"Biden Awards Football Trophy to Air Force Academy\">coldest bowl game<\/a> in history at 11 degrees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5229671\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/28\/id5229671-Joe-Biden-trophy-2-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/04\/28\/id5229671-Joe-Biden-trophy-2-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks during an event to present the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s trophy to the Air Force Academy in the East Room of the White House on April 28, 2023. (Evan Vucci\/AP Photo)\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>The Air Force Falcons have won the trophy 21 times, compared to 16 for the Navy Midshipmen and 9 for the Army Knights. The competition among the service academies began in 1972, and it has become a tradition to award the trophy to the winning team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s Trophy to the Air Force Academy for winning football games against its rival U.S. service academies. \u201cSimply put, you can\u2019t talk about the soul of the nation without talking about our service academies,\u201d Biden told the team gathered in the White House\u2019s East Room. \u201cAnd you can\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1921399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[8820,6229,9497,3620,5541,4649,6770],"class_list":["post-1921398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-academy","tag-air","tag-awards","tag-biden","tag-football","tag-force","tag-trophy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}