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Silver Wings Soars Home

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From the Dr. C. C. and Mabel L. Criss Library archives: Members of the Omaha University organization Angel Flight, which later became Silver Wings, pose with AFROTC cadets.

OMAHA – Leadership, service, supporting our military.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is once again home to a local chapter of Silver Wings. The national organization was founded on our campus in 1952.

A new presence for the group on campus means new internship, scholarship and learning opportunities for students at the best university in the nation for military friendliness.

Silver Wings is dedicated to creating proactive, knowledgeable, and effective civic leaders through community service and education about national defense. Interested students and community members don’t need any military experience to join.

“It’s an organization that sympathizes with the Air Force mission, but it’s geared toward civilians,” staff advisor James Keating said. “That’s who we want, civilians who are interested in aerospace studies but for some reason or another can’t join the Air Force or just don’t want to make that commitment.”

Silver Wings works in tandem with the Arnold Air Society, a sister organization comprised of cadets in Air Force officer candidate training programs, such as UNO’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) detachment.

Organizers say Silver Wings membership will allow students to accompany AFROTC cadets on field trips they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to attend. Likewise, members will be able to apply for certain scholarships and Department of Defense internships.

This fall, Silver Wings will launch a Lecture in Leadership series, inviting the public to hear from military and government leaders at three speaking events.

View the lecture series schedule.

Organizers say they hope the community will join them, to celebrate the return of Silver Wings, and help the new chapter take off.

Interested in joining Silver Wings? Visit the group’s MavSync page or contact Staff Advisor James Keating at jkeating@unomaha.edu.