Word: cadets
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...foresight didn't save him. On Feb. 22, 1995, Fischer, 29, and Cadet Mark Dostal, 20, were killed when their T-3 corkscrewed into the ground about 50 miles east of the academy. Dostal, of Moraga, Calif., was a junior at the academy, where he had racked up scholastic and athletic honors. "Mark wanted to fly from the time he was a little boy," says his mother Shirley. "He thought his best chance to fly was to go to the academy." He had spent 11 hours learning...
...Sept. 30, 1996, a second T-3 crashed 30 miles east of the academy, killing Cadet Dennis Rando, 21, and his instructor, Captain Clay Smith, 28. The Air Force concluded that Rando, a senior, and Smith had been practicing a forced landing and crashed when the engine failed during a key part of the maneuver. The first expert to study the wrecked engine said it was operating at impact. But when they looked into it, Air Force investigators disputed that finding, especially when they discovered that the initial expert didn't work for the Air Force, as they had thought...
...After Cadet shooting guard Chris Crawford burned the baseline defence for two, Clemente took a perimeter pass from sophomore guard Damian Long and hit a 10-footer from the baseline...
...Dunn, the Air Force cadet, is one of few students who signed up for ROTC without receiving a scholarship...
Sharmil S. Modi '99 was an avid Air Force cadet before he chose to leave ROTC in order to make an academic switch...