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After nearly four years of pressure, the 62 surviving women cadets (out of the original 119) in the Class of '80, the first to admit women, are also fed up with the limelight. "I always try to avoid interviews," says one emphatically. "I say to reporters, 'Go ask that male cadet the same things...
Three women sit at a makeshift table in the middle of a temporary summer encampment. The field is studded with hundreds of pup tents. A senior talks about cadet life and the coming graduation. Another woman walks casually by in shorts and T shirt, her platinum hair neatly blown in a Dorothy Hamill haircut. The reporter is startled by her own instinctive response: How could this gorgeous girl be headed for an Army career? The thought is broken by an angry shout. Off to the side, male cadets are snidely calling to the women to come to formation. "Buzz...
More boyish. But what's a cadet going to do with comb, handkerchief and notebook without a pocket? Especially a female cadet. Put them in her hat, of course. Every time they took their hats off, the women plebes would scramble around picking up their belongings. "You would have thought that they would have looked into the uniforms before we came here," grumbles one of the women. "The jackets they gave us made us look like ten-ton trucks...
...woman cadet works busily in her quarters, stopping to straighten her already drum-tight bunk. The door is open, not because a male cadet is visiting but because dozens of cadets keep filing back and forth from the corridor outside. (Men have had to forgo the honored custom of strolling naked through the barracks.) The woman is a top member of the cadet Brigade. A formation of her company is just now waiting for her outside the building. "Hey, Mom, it's time," calls one of the male cadets. This time it's an affectionate nickname, a mark...
During the inspection a male cadet giggles, and jiggles his eyebrows up and down in amusement as she walks by. Because he's a classmate she says nothing. If he were a plebe she could say: "Mister, do you know the proper position of attention...