Word: cadets
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...this month aptly titled "Service Academies: Leadership Crucibles or Magnificent Anachronisms?" All the academies are suffering from declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing the very thing that set them apart. Last week a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point acknowledged that the school is no longer a rigid temple of martial arts and science. "I expected a very military environment," says Cadet Jason Squier, a junior from Norwalk, Iowa. "It surprised me that West Point is a lot closer...
...result of a ruling from Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to attend day classes at the Citadel, the all- male military college in South Carolina. Rehnquist's ruling allows Faulkner to study without cadet ranking while her sex-discrimination lawsuit against the school is pending...
Hoffman didn't make the first cut, but after Congress requested that NASA reevaluate the selection, he was accepted and granted the title of a full-fledged space cadet...
This tough balance between school and hard, hard labor worked to mature Restic very quickly, a fact evidenced by his volunteering for the Army Cadet Program in 1943 at the age of 16-and-a-half. Because of the different nationalities of his parents and the ethnic variegation of Hastings in general, Restic was proficient in three languages: Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian. This background made him an ideal candidate to be a Special Agent in the European Theatre of Operations...
...event's most dramatic moment came when a student in the front of the audience stood and asked panelist and ROTC cadet Curtis L. Pierce '94: "Do you believe homosexuality is incompatible with military service...