Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investing in its first jet-powered basic trainer, the Air Force hopes to save money by sharply reducing the flight hours necessary to qualify a cadet for supersonic fighters and bombers. Flight cadets will drop 90 hours of prop training in North American's T-28 trainer, take the stick of the Cessna jet after only 40 hours of basic piston-engine flight in Beech's Mentor (T-34. In the T-37, instructor and student sit side by side instead of tandem. With 150 hours in the T-37, the student can step up to Lockheed...
Although he will be primarily connected with the Defense Studies Program, Emerson will take part in a ROTC subcourse given to cadet freshmen in military history, besides giving a course open to all undergraduates and conducting a graduate seminar...
...military affairs of our nation, as in all other respects. Like all other disciplines, military discipline is a form of mental training which in no way inhibits intellectual activity, but rather aids the true scholar in objective analysis. The non-military and ROTC instruction of the Harvard Army cadet, therefore, are not two isolated and unrelated activities, as this article unfortunately implies, but rather are integrated and complementary components of the broad education of a group of Harvard students who understand the Army's need for educated men. T. N. Dupuy, Col., Artillery; Professor of Military Science and Tactics
Born in 1909, in Sidney, Ill., "Whitey" Dahl learned to fly as a U.S. Army cadet, later dropped out of the Air Corps. and by 1937 was ready to launch his flamboyant, horsepower-opera career by marching off to the Spanish civil war with a $1,500-a-month contract to fly and fight for the Republican side. On a bombing mission over the Madrid front, he was shot down, captured and sentenced to death before a Franco firing squad...
...that they have a duty to their country to become officers. A few want commissions in the regular Army. Some are members of the unit simply because they would rather serve their two years in the Army as officers than as enlisted men. Whatever his reason for joining, each cadet attempts to get decent marks...