Story by Milt Spalding | Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office | 04.26.2024
Cadets from Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan gathered at Fort Knox recently to take part in the Tri-State Challenge hosted by the Bluegrass ChalleNGe Academy. The students competed in a variety of events including basketball, softball, chess, and a spelling bee among other events....
Story by Milt Spalding | Kentucky National Guard Public Affairs Office | 08.10.2023
The National Guard ChalleNGe Academy is a nationwide program designed to help at-risk youth. For 22 weeks, the cadets live, eat, and learn at the academy. Through the highly structured, quasi-military program, emphasis is placed on self-discipline, personal responsibility, and positive motivation. Students must meet military grooming standards, wear military-style uniforms and observe standard......
Story by Capt. Cody Stagner | 133rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 04.23.2021
FORT KNOX, Ky. - Kentucky First Lady Britainy Beshear and the Kentucky Adjutant General, Brig. Gen. Haldane Lamberton, met with students and faculty from the Bluegrass ChalleNGe Academy (BCA) at Fort Knox, on April 23, 2021....
Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 05.01.2020
While Kentucky schools, including Fort Knox Community Schools, remain closed for the remainder of the school year, one school here continues to hold in-person classes and operate normally. The 70 or so teens of Class 42 attending Bluegrass ChalleNGe Academy still live together, eat together, march around, exercise, stand at parade rest to show respect, and share a laugh or two as they work on......
