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bad eyes in the 70's jbsail: While admittance was stricter on eyesight, it varied with the need for pilots. Generally, if you needed glasses, you were considered "non-pilot qualified" (as were all all women -- our gender medically disqualified us) and you needed to have SAT/ACT scores better...

Fascinating Thread This is a fascinating thread to me, because it shows how times have changed. When I went through BCT, we had two swim tests. The coaches watched, but recruited swimmers did not do other swimming; at least I didn't. But then, Coach Arata knew my real desire was to run...

More info And his older brother was a graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy. I have more details posted on my blog (just google my name).

I am here and I support USAFA Dear Pima, Somebody banned me from this site? Obviously NOT. Your mistake is an example of how false rumors get started and why America needs free speech and writers to remind people of the difference between assumptions and facts. I have not been posting here...

Sympathy to Family and the Cadet Wing I also heard of this through the rumor mill, including his name. I am confused, however. Was he a C2C at USAFA or was he still at the Prep school?

True. But can you COBOL, FORTRAN, Hypercard, LISP, and punch cards? Ha,ha, ha. Ancient, archaic knowledge that I didn't have to program in after graduation, either. Have fun with C++ and HTML

Last night I blogged about whether or not an Assault Scandal could recur at USAFA (I specifically call this Assault or Rape--it is not a Sex Scandal). Then, this morning, CA representative Jackie Speier wrote in the Huffington Post why she is introducing new legislation to change the way sexual...

Sometimes longevity means a good program. I majored in OR at USAFA in 1980, when it was a new field, and got my MS in it at AFIT. The main thing about OR is that it is interdisciplinary--NOT just math. You will/should be expected to combine a wide range of knowledge and skills to solve real...

I think the real answer is they want people who can do EVERYTHING. Remember the raid on Bin Laden? In and out in 20 (okay, maybe 30) minutes, after acquiring all the intelligence in the computers in the compound? Read a good SEAL memoir lately? Full of technical descriptions of their weapons...

I'm a little out of my league (water, that is) posting here, and everyone has given you pertinent advice. On a more qualitative side, a few years ago the featured speaker at the Women Military Aviators conference was the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, Vivien Crea. A contingent of more than...

More Minority Issues To TPG: Thank you for giving your daughter the best type of support!!! To Christcorp: I agree in general principle with what you say, but please indulge me while I expand the issue. Here is another radical idea to pursue--what if those "standards" are all created...

Scoutpilot: I think USNA1985 was probably referring to tanker trucks for refueling ground vehicles, that frequently move in convoys with other supply and maintenance vehicles. Jessica Lynch, a supply clerk, and Shoshana Johnson, a cook, were both captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom when...

Luigi59, I'm famous? Thank you very much for your kind comment and your welcome. USNA1985, That is so true!

Here is the answer from Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs: women cannot serve on Special Tactics Teams (Combat Controllers, Special Operations Weather Technicians, or pararescue) and we cannot be Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) (called Forward Air Controllers in my ancient...

Times have Changed (thank goodness) Dear LineInTheSand, This would have been after Grenada, which created big tension over the Navy special ops unit being unable to communicate with the AF and Army due to incompatible radio frequencies, and before 1986. Lots of guys still resented women...

Need to check Okay, this is embarrassing -- I did a quick google search to confirm that women can fly Air Force Special Operations helicopters and the top return was my own blog! Duh, I don't know the answer for sure; if I'm the expert, then that's embarrassing! A few other search returns...

Intriguing Name GO!!! I..he introduced me to the guy that the event is sorta named for (actually after his father) and it turned out to be a HS classmate of mine!! I hadn't seen him in over 30 years! THUDGATE...a great place to meet folks from this forum and many others!! Steve...

Good Luck, JetSet15! BCT is the exciting part of the doolie year; stand firm for the fire-hose of boring tasks that also require excellence. Several books on USAFA have been published on what we call the ten per-centers--the 10% of people who take up 90% of a commander's time. Lehmkuhl's...

So disappointing. As I told your Superintendent last October, I am so disappointed that, 36 years after I entered USAFA, women are still not automatically treated with the same respect as the men. While I consider this to be a failure of leadership, and while I am glad your classmates stuck...

Dear Melinda, Your husband and I spent many miserable experiences together during BCT--in fact, I am writing a book about it! Ask him about the old football cheer with his name in it. ;-) Seriously, I have thought hard about why I was never sexually harassed at USAFA or in the AF, when I know...