Sponsors are appointed to help all personnel assigned to the Academy. They are prepared to help you with any questions or problems before your arrival and while getting settled. Please exchange phone numbers, e-mail addresses and your travel itinerary with your sponsor. If you’re unable to contact your sponsor, call the base locator at DSN 333-1110 or your gaining unit orderly room.

Upon arrival, check in with your sponsor and in-process with your assigned commander’s support staff. You will need to hand-carry your orders, the sealed records package from your losing military personnel flight and be in uniform. After obtaining a local address and phone number, you will need to update your emergency data card (DD Form 93), PCIII and the DEERS/RAPIDS computer database with the new information. During the first month following your arrival, you will attend a briefing from the finance office, military personnel flight, newcomers orientation/information fair and, if applicable, a first duty station/military equal opportunity orientation. Spouses and teenage family members are encouraged to attend the newcomers orientation/information fair.

If you are an appropriated fund civilian employee arriving for employment at the Academy, you will be in-processed by the civilian personnel flight, Building 8034, 10th Air Base Wing Headquarters. You will be scheduled for orientation briefings within your first 60 days.

Call (719) 333-2753 or write: 10 MSS/DPCU, 8034 Edgerton Drive, Suite 100, USAF Academy, CO 80840-2205 for more information. If you are on a leave-without-pay status from a previous non-appropriated fund position you should report to the NAF human resource office located in the upper level of the community center, next to the library, to apply for current open positions.

The weather is generally moderate, but can vary. April through September are normally pleasant months; typical high temperatures are in the mid-80s for July and August and between 20 and 40 degrees for December and January. Normally, snowfall occurs October to late April but the area still enjoys more than 300 days of sunshine each year.