Word: mcpeak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introduction to Air Force training was a particular passion of General Merrill McPeak, the service's chief of staff in the early 1990s. McPeak, a fighter pilot who had flown with the Thunderbirds, the Air Force's precision-flying team, is now retired but still flies his own homemade, acrobatic RV-4 aircraft. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," says McPeak of the T-3's predecessor. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco...
...teach cadets the building blocks of military flying, including a dizzying array of loops, rolls and spins. With the T-3, the Air Force could offer what it called an "enhanced flight-screening program," which could pinpoint "those cadets who have the basic aptitude to become Air Force pilots." McPeak encouraged his service to buy a trainer that could spin, the wing tips tracing a circle after the plane has lost, at least temporarily, its ability to remain aloft. It is a maneuver so dangerous that Air Force fighter pilots are under orders to eject if one occurs. But McPeak...
BEACH Nancy Reno and Holly McPeak, the powerful U.S. duo who break up with each other almost as often as they win tournaments, are on their way to gold unless the Brazilians stop them. Sinjin Smith, the granddaddy of the beach at 39, will try for a medal with his partner, Carl Henkel...
After 11 consecutive wins last season by Reno and partner Holly McPeak--beach volleyball features two-woman teams--the pair earned a trip to Atlanta for the sport's Olympic debut. But Reno nearly gave it all up when she split with McPeak in April. They have since reunited, but why even risk losing such an opportunity? Reno explains, "With all the sacrifices I've made, I'm not that tolerant of not being happy." Sounds perfectly logical. --By Susanna Schrobsdorff/New York...
...McPeak dismisses the gospel of his former fellow Joint Chieftains, who insist that retreating from a two-war strategy would tempt troublemakers once U.S. troops were pinned down in the first conflict. "Not true," he insists. "If the adversary sees the U.S. keeping its commitment somewhere, it deters the second. Nobody in the world is anxious to fight the U.S. if they judge that we are serious." McPeak acknowledges that the Clinton Administration's shaky relations with the military make it unlikely that this Administration would push to replace the two-war strategy with a more modest pledge, although...