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...ramp has its ramp commander, an assistant ramp commander, a navigator in charge of flights between hangar and ramp, a hot pilot to supervise hot drinks, a cold pilot for cold drinks ("Sir, fuel injection is on the ramp"), and a crew chief to stack the dishes. When a cadet is ready to leave, he says: "New Cadet Blank reports in No. i take-off position. Am I clear?" The ramp commander, using control-tower jargon, can either "hold" him or demand: "What are you, Mister?" (to which the cadet must...
Reach for the Sky. As at both Annapolis and West Point, the Air Force Academy already has its stock exchanges for the moment when a cadet is braced by an upperclassman. On returning to barracks, the cadet says: "New Cadet Blank returning to base, three-green"-a reference to the three green lights on the instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position...
...week, Valmore W. Bourque, 20, of South Hadley Falls, Mass., lugged a suitcase up to Patrick Hall on Denver's Lowry Air Force Base and reported to a sleepy master sergeant. Said Bourque: "I figure it would be something to tell my kids I was the first air cadet in the U.S." Sixteen hours and 45 minutes later, Bourque and 305 other members of the first class at the U.S. Air Force Academy were sound asleep after a double-timed day that included drill, a dedication ceremony, physical examinations (one cadet had measles), lectures, assignments, hazing, uniform issue...
...mist clung low toward Constitution Island, where General Washington's men laid the two iron chains across the Hudson that kept the Royal Navy out of Highland waters, and white clouds puffed and scudded like shellbursts around the big rock cliffs. Along with about 800 other ex-cadets, the President marched in the traditional alumni parade, slow-paced at 60 steps to the minute so that the older men could keep up. Watching over the parade was the academy's oldest living graduate, 95-year-old Major General Henry Clay Hodges Jr., class...
...soldiers," the President said to the cadets, "you will live by the traditions of the service, built in the halls and on the campus of this greatest of all academies of its kind, and on many battlefields, from Bunker Hill to the Korean mountains." The President counseled the cadets to be "stout of faith in yourselves, your alma mater and your God." So saying, the President stepped to the front of the dais and began to pass out the diplomas, characteristically reserving his most scrutinizing appraisal and his warmest words of encouragement for Cadet John Paul Doyle Jr., "The Goat...