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...Marine Corps delivered a verdict Friday on the 1998 ski gondola accident near Cavalese, Italy, in which a low-flying jet clipped the cable and killed 20 people. The pilot of the EA-6B Prowler, who was acquitted in March of manslaughter, was convicted by a military jury of obstruction of justice and conspiracy for helping destroy an in-flight videotape that might have shed light on the accident. That is the charge that stuck to Capt. Richard Ashby, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, after the first court-martial revealed a series of mix-ups and deficiencies...
...head in behind a SEAD (suppression of enemy air defense) package. These Navy EA-6B radar-jamming planes and Air Force radar-killing F-16CJs scour the skies for electronic clues betraying a SAM radar. As you plunge deeper over enemy territory between 15,000 and 25,000 ft., there's an aerial ballet taking place far above: a layer of F-15Cs ensuring that no Serbian pilot gets close enough to take a shot...
...guest was implacable. "We shall say we are satisfied when whoever is responsible for what happened is found guilty and punished," said Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema. The day before, a military jury in Camp Lejeune, N.C., had acquitted Captain Richard Ashby, a U.S. Marine pilot whose EA-6B warplane severed a ski gondola in the Italian Alps on Feb. 3, 1998, sending 20 Europeans to their death...
...confess. We students are immersed in a privileged bubble within a privileged sub-culture. As such, rather than service programs such as--GBLS (Greater Boston Legal Services), ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), EA (Emergency Assistance) and LHA (Local Housing Authority)--we deal with an entirely different highly esoteric set of acronyms. Exasperated, we fantasize about a help desk that could guide us along our path, from FDO to IOP to GMAT...
...confess. We students are immersed in a privileged bubble within a privileged sub-culture. As such, rather than service programs such as--GBLS (Greater Boston Legal Services), ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development), EA (Emergency Assistance) and LHA (Local Housing Authority)--we deal with an entirely different highly esoteric set of acronyms. Exasperated, we fantasize about a help desk that could guide us along our path, from FDO to IOP to GMAT...