Word: hultgreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Lieut. Kara Hultgreen was killed last October while flying, many anonymous claims were made that she had not been qualified to pilot the F-14 and that she had been placed as a token pilot in order to improve the image of the navy after the Tailhook scandal. These claims gained such momentum that they spurred her mother to release her training records after her death. The record showed that Lieut. Hultgreen had been third in her F-14 piloting class and above average as a pilot. Soon afterwards the crash was labeled a mechanical failure. All the claims...
...Navy had always stood by Hultgreen's ability. She even convinced those who very nervous about allowing women to fly in combat. "We were a little apprehensive at first about women driving the plane, but she got hold of that thing and knew what she was doing," her training squadron commander, Capt. Tom Sobieck, told the New York Times. When given the same training and subjected to the same standards as men, women compete on an equal level. If women are subject to the same standards as men, as Shannon Faulkner was in her original Citadel application (when...
...Hultgreen herself had always fought against any leniency in standards towards women. "If people let me slide through on a lower standard, it's my life on the line. I could get killed," she told Rear Adm. Robert Hickey. This lower standard could only be a result of lower quality skills in women. Subjecting women to a lower form of military education results in lower quality skills and ultimately dooms them in a military career. If they are admitted, then they are a danger to themselves; if they are not, then they are never given equal opportunities. The Citadel cannot...
...want to be an astronaut," Lieut. Hultgreen had told the Miami Herald. "Most of the astronauts are Navy jet pilots first. If you aren't given the same opportunities, you can't compete on the same level." If military colleges persist in keeping women out, then they will always claim that women are not qualified to serve in the military. If the Citadel ever opens its doors to women as the United States armed forces has, then they too might realize that their fears about women in the military are unfounded...
VINDICATED. LIEUT. KARA HULTGREEN, deceased, one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots; by a report concluding that last October's fatal crash at sea of her F-14A was the result of engine failure. The investigation flatly contradicted an anonymous campaign conducted on talk radio and the Internet that belittled her skills...
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