Word: steeplejack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ranked seventh in leadership in his old class. He observes sardonically that he "would have been a real big shot" at the academy had he not become involved in the scandal. During his year in purgatory, spent back home in West Islip, N.Y., working as a kitchen helper and steeplejack, his parents got calls from anonymous taunters who would jeer, "I hear your son's a cheat." After all that, the Point seems like paradise. "I requested to go to my old company," he says, "and they've been great...