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...last week's whimpering climax. Shortly after the shoot-down, the Air Force granted immunity to Captain Eric Wickson, the F-15 pilot believed by many in the Pentagon to be most responsible for the catastrophe. The Air Force used his testimony against the other F-15 pilot, Lieut. Colonel Randy May. While May was senior in rank, Wickson was the so-called flight lead the day of the shoot-down, making Wickson largely responsible for what occurred. In part because of that prosecutorial decision, 26 charges of negligent homicide against May were dropped. Furthermore, the top officer responsible...
...record of the scholarship, its donor unknown, yet Koernke elected to spend his freshman year at the less prestigious, less expensive Eastern Michigan University. While there he joined the ROTC program, cutting a vivid and peculiar figure. "I don't often remember students who were in only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell out of everybody else...
...perhaps the Bosnian game is deception rather than surprise. Most of the military experts watching last week's offensive take shape confessed that they were confused. One of them, Canadian Lieut. Colonel Daniel Redburn, had a particularly close vantage point. He was bottled up with his detachment of peacekeepers at a U.N. base in Visoko that had been blockaded and mined by Bosnian-government troops. He could see smoke and explosions rising from a battle a couple of miles away but could only guess at their significance. "Is that a bluff?" he asked. "Do they want to get to Sarajevo...
...Washington State to practice air-show maneuvers. Barely 15 minutes later, while attempting to circle the runway's control tower in a steep turn, it crashed at 170 m.p.h., narrowly missing nuclear weapons bunkers and a crowded airmen's school. No one had wanted to fly with the pilot-Lieut. Colonel Arthur Holland, a 24-year veteran about to retire. Indeed, two of the three other officers killed with Holland were there because their subordinates feared flying with...
Danny Piper, a retired Air Force colonel, once believed the Air Force could fairly investigate its own wreckage. He's changed his mind, he says, "the hard way." On April 14, 1994, his daughter, Lieut. Laura Piper, 25, was one of 26 people killed when Air Force F-15s shot down two Army helicopters over Iraq. Four senior officers, including two generals, have declined to testify at hearings, citing the right against self-incrimination. The court-martial of AWACS Captain Jim Wang, the only officer facing trial in the shootdown, is scheduled for next week. The tragedy, says Diehl...