Selected Article Excerpts:

• Despite an Air Force investigation in years past and continuing efforts to set up religious sensitivity training at the Air Force Academy, it appears the officer school north of Colorado Springs continues to couch its mission in terms of a divine being.
  
  
• One of those photos featured most of a poster of the academy's famous honor code, with a second sentence we'd never seen before:
  ... "Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and live honorably so help me God."
  
  So we sent the photo to Mikey Weinstein, the 1977 academy grad who's been fighting for religious neutrality in the military since 2004 through his nonprofit, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The foundation got its start with efforts aimed at the academy, where Weinstein alleges fundamental Christianity is given priority, based on cadets' and staff's complaints to him that those espousing such a belief system receive favorable treatment.
  
  After receiving the photo late Friday afternoon, Weinstein immediately contacted the academy about it. Ironically, he had met with Superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson on Thursday morning and told her of several instances in the last month or so that he says demonstrate a lack of understanding about the separation of church and state.
  
  First, he says, an academy grad and active-duty officer wrote on a classroom board the "only formula needed to get through this course," which was "1 cross, plus 3 nails equals 4-given."
  
  Second, a female master sergeant recently told seniors that when they're commissioned as officers, they must end the oath with, "So help me God." Weinstein says a staff judge advocate advised the academy this was wrong, and the message was revoked.

• When Weinstein contacted Johnson's vice superintendent on Friday about the prep-school poster, he says, Johnson herself got back to him 68 minutes later. She wrote via e-mail:
  
  
  Thanks for taking the time to talk with my Vice about this matter. This Honor Oath is one of the new things since my graduation, evidently in about 1984. Col Miller was able to bring together the Prep School and other entities on base to put together a way ahead. We’ve already directed the Honor Review Committee to fix this next week when they meet. The Prep School poster has been taken down.
  
  
• We tried to find out more about what Johnson meant by "a way ahead," and by the word "fix," but she wasn't available. However, the academy did release this statement:
  
  
  We are assessing the situation and have many mission elements, to include Prep School leadership, the Honor Review Committee and other entities on base, working to put together a way ahead that is respectful to all perspectives.