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...repeated search sorties, received the first direct radio signal from the downed pilot. "Basher-52 reads you," said O'Grady, using the "call sign" that signifies a particular plane and its pilot. "I'm alive; help." Hanford subsequently asked him to identify the name of the squadron in which he had served in Korea -- a question designed to ensure that O'Grady's message was not, in fact, a Serb trick. When he replied correctly, Hanford notified his superiors that he had made contact with O'Grady. Then he peeled away over the Adriatic to refuel...
...ultimatum to hand them back. That was too much even for Yasushi Akashi, the top U.N. official in Bosnia. He had vetoed several previous requests by local U.N. commanders for bombing strikes, but this time he approved one. It came Thursday and was more than the usual pinprick: a squadron of 15 NATO planes flying out of Italy -- mostly American but including a sprinkling of other craft -- bombed ammunition dumps just outside Pale, the Bosnian Serbs' so-called capital...
Gadzinski, 31, got his nickname because he plays the instrument with symphony orchestras and aboard ship. Dryfuse, 24, got hers after a port call when her male squadron mates discovered she took kidding well, snapping out comebacks that would make comedian Roseanne blush...
More than $1 million was spent renovating bathrooms and sleeping quarters to accommodate women. Crewmen received color-coded brochures on how they should act around their female shipmates. (A polite compliment, for example, was in the "green zone" and acceptable. "Red zone" behavior included promising promotions for sex.) Squadron commanders conducted seminars for pilots' wives, some of whom were nervous about their husbands working in close quarters with female aviators. Doctors trained in gynecology were brought on board. The ship's barbers were even given classes in cutting women's hair...
...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...