# @af_academy on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DR5VeKek7Gj - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37637667-af-academy-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/9673100901.jpg - **Posted:** 2025-12-05T20:52:43.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** U.S. Air Force Academy (@af_academy) โ€” https://gondola.cc/af_academy ## Caption ๐Ÿ“ฃ ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ž ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ: ๐‚๐Ÿ๐‚ ๐Œ๐š๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข โ€œ๐Œ๐š๐ฅโ€ ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ง โœˆ๏ธ Meet C1C Mal Greman from Spanaway, Washington!๐ŸŒฒ A Management major and future pilot, Mal came to #๐”๐’๐€๐…๐€ to push his limits as a leader and commission so he could give back to the enlisted corps he proudly came from. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Before arriving at the Academy, Mal served as a Boom Operator on the KC-135, logging over 400 flight hoursโ€”including 200 in combat supporting Operations Freedom Sentinel and Inherent Resolve. ๐Š๐ž๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ: โš”๏ธ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง โ€” Built grit under pressure and a hunger for excellence ๐Ÿช‚ ๐–๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ โ€” Forged close friendships while competing at elite levels ๐Ÿงญ ๐Ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ โ€” Led 2,000+ cadets through demanding summer operations ๐Ÿ‘ His most rewarding moment was instructing AM-490 and watching cadets conquer their fears as they jumped from a military aircraft for the first time. "๐‹๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ž๐ซ. ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐งโ€”๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ." ๐ƒ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ ๐š ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง ๐Œ๐š๐ฅ! #USAFA2026 #FirstieFriday #LeadersOfCharacterAndQuality #FutureFight #NoQuitAllGrit #WarfightersToWin #CriticalThinkersToAdapt ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 3,194 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 23 ## Tags ๐”๐’๐€๐…๐€, usafa2026, firstiefriday, criticalthinkerstoadapt, warfighterstowin, noquitallgrit, leadersofcharacterandquality, futurefight --- Copyright (c) Gondola