Word: cadets
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...that's left of that dream is the bruising memory of a rape and the lingering anger over the academy's alleged failure to fully investigate her complaint, accusing her instead, she says, of being a "liar." Over the past month, at least 22 other women--13 former cadets and nine currently enrolled--have made similar charges, accusing academy officials not only of failing to investigate sexual assaults but of actively discouraging women from reporting them, and retaliating when they did. Yet in the past decade, only one academy cadet has been court-martialed on a rape charge; the cadet...
...That at Arnie's, a lecture hall hangout on the school grounds where no alcohol is allowed. As Fullilove and three girlfriends were leaving, an upperclassman they knew offered them a ride to their dorms. Fullilove was the last to be dropped off, but she trusted the male cadet; he had bailed her out of two infraction charges that eventually proved unfounded but could have resulted in her being expelled. So, she says, she wasn't even worried when he pulled over and locked the car doors. But, struggling now to hide her emotions like a good soldier, she sums...
Susan Archibald, an academy graduate who says she was sexually taken advantage of by an academy chaplin when she was a cadet in 1983, argues that the academy's attempt to keep the problems hidden is what has so dispirited female cadets. Says Archibald, who now runs a nonprofit for survivors of clergy abuse in Louisville, Ky.: "We know in the military that bad things are going to happen to us, in terms of going to war, dying, so you go in with the mind-set of sacrifice. But we didn't think that sacrifice means keeping your mouth shut...
William C.B. Taylor ’04, a member-at-large of the College Democrats and a cadet in the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, said he supports the draft, calling it an “opportunity” to defend our nation...
During the final months at Officer Cadet School, cadets break off into specific schools. Myat San joined the ranks of the Infantry, which he affectionately deems “the queen of the battlefield.” There he learned a broad range of tactics—mastering the art of swimming in full combat gear, maneuvering assault boats, fighting in built-up areas, assaulting forts and operating helicopters. In order to master long-range navigation, the infantry cadets journeyed to the mountains of Taiwan. (The island of Singapore is only 15 miles long, a quarter of which...