Obama Addresses AFA Class of ’16

The new officers who graduated this year from the U.S. Air Force Academy are joining the ranks of the finest military in world history, President Obama told them as they accepted their commissions. Speaking at the Colorado school’s commencement June 2, Obama told the Class of 2016, “With our unequaled vigilance and reach, unrivaled fifth-generation fighters, a new generation of remotely piloted aircraft pilots, astonishing precision that calls to mind your class motto, ‘On target, on time,’ nobody can match America’s Air Force.” They can expect to be challenged, Obama said, by threats posed by terrorist groups, the Islamic State, Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran. “We’ve got to draw on every tool all elements of our national power,” Obama said.