A Year in the Blue portrays the life inside the Academy - the heartbreaks and triumphs of balancing military training, a rigorous four-year college education, mandatory athletics, and more. This 105-minute documentary dives inside the lives of a small group of freshman cadets at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and witnesses the tough challenges these cadets must endure to make it through their grueling first year. They dreamed of becoming pilots and officers, but find themselves slogging through mud and barbed wire on the assault course and chasing through the sweltering summer heat in combat exercises.