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Skies to Conquer

Author : Diana Jean Schemo
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470588349
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Skies to Conquer written by Diana Jean Schemo and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former New York Times reporter's year behind the scenes at the scandal-ridden Air Force Academy Diana Jean Schemo covered the Air Force Academy's sexual assault scandal in 2003, one of a series of academy embarrassments that have included drug use, rape complaints, and charges of evangelical officers pushing Christianity on cadets of all faiths. Today, the institution is in flux—a fascinating time to look at the changes being made and the experience of today's cadets. Schemo followed a handful of academy cadets through the school year. From the admissions process and punishing weeks of basic training to graduation, she shares the triumphs and tribulations of the cadets and the struggle of the academy's leaders to set their embattled alma mater on a straighter path. Follows cadets in all grades, with insights on day-to-day academy life and training Written by a veteran reporter, two-time foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize nominee, with excellent contacts at the academy Includes 38 black-and-white photographs Like David Lipsky's successful Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, this book offers a fascinating window on the training of our military today. But Schemo's book updates the story: the seniors were the first class to sign up after the attacks of 9/11, and the road to graduation, this time, leads to an America at war.

Basic Cadet Training

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Basic Cadet Training written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Air Force Academy Candidate Book

Author : William L. Smallwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Air Force Academy Candidate Book written by William L. Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flight of Excellence

Author : Michael N. Martin
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781596520356
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Flight of Excellence written by Michael N. Martin and published by Turner. This book was released on 2007 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victor Padrini

Author : Mark Pizzimenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966663501
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Victor Padrini written by Mark Pizzimenti and published by . This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernism at Mid-Century

Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226076946
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Modernism at Mid-Century written by Robert Bruegmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year. The contributors to this volume (Jory Johnson, Robert Nauman, Sheri Olson, James Russell, and Kristen Schaffer) and editor Robert Bruegmann chronicle the complex history of the planning, design, and construction of the Air Force Academy. As the most conspicuous commission of the American military at the height of the Cold War, the design of the Academy generated intense popular interest and was a lightning rod for conflicting values in postwar society. The design, by architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has been hailed as the final triumph of the International Style and as a monument to military bureaucracy.

Doolie

Author : Gene H Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781703128468
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Doolie written by Gene H Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fictional historical novel tells the story of the last Air Force Academy class to spend its entire first year at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado before the new site opened in Colorado Springs. Seen through the eyes of a cadet, the story is based on cadet "letters home." The Class had the last with Air Force Officer Upperclassmen and first with 1959 and 1960 cadet upperclassmen. The "Toughest School in America's" first year Fourth Class (Freshman) System weaned the cadet from parental ties and gave him the self-discipline necessary meet the four-year challenges required to become a United States Air Force Officer. The Third Academy Class lived a history that will never be repeated. The Class of 1961 was the last trained under the watchful eyes of young US Air Force Officer "upperclassmen." The West Point, Naval Academy, and Citadel graduates assumed the role of upperclassmen to the "Doolies," a sarcastic name for New Cadets. The physical, mental, and spiritual demands on these selected young men are chronicled in the novel. The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the New Cadets, detailed in letters home, create the historical basis for the book. Classmates Art Kerr, Terry Storm, and Ad Thompson provided the "letters home" in a book by Robert Heriza entitled Man's Flight through Life. The Epilog details the myriad achievements of the men who completed the Academy program. Most of the 214 who graduated with the class completed a military career where they provided leadership in combat, military organizations, and other national endeavors. Following military service, graduates pursued careers as commercial pilots or industry managers, as lawyers and judges, or in roles in educational institutions. Doolie is an up-close and personal look at the life of these earliest AF Academy cadets. General Lee Butler, a Commander of Strategic, observed the following: "Gene hit upon the engaging approach of interweaving letters home from classmates with his own narrative of an intense socialization process designed to turn boys into men. Chronicling this unrelenting grind in excruciating detail while sustaining keen anticipation of events in the daily life of a Doolie some 60 years ago is a truly remarkable achievement, but anyone who has lived through a long period of separation from family and friends can relate to it. Carry on, then, dear reader, but fasten your emotional seat belt: this is a wild ride to come."

Rogue Institution

Author : David W. Graney
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604943955
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Rogue Institution written by David W. Graney and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault, drug, and cheating scandals; institutional malfunction by way of administrative conspiracy, treachery, and delinquency; factious, tyrannical cadet leadership engendered by ideological misgivings and mob-mentality social justice; hazing, fraternal rights of passage, and selective character assassination; kangaroo courts, radicals, and rumor-mongers: These are the collective hallmark of the United States Air Force Academy. Follow a beleaguered class of 2005 cadet as he struggles to cope with and make sense of his surroundings. In Rogue Institution, former cadet Graney exposes the hypocrisy and cruelty that he found there, and vividly illustrates the wide spectrum of human emotion, thought, and behavior resultant from such an environment. Rogue Institution is a thought-provoking, action-oriented tribute to moral courage and self-determination, sure to inspire and enlighten readers.

Bring Me Men and Women

Author : Judith Stiehm
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520342089
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Bring Me Men and Women written by Judith Stiehm and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's integration into the military academies afforded an almost unique opportunity to study social change. It was a tidy, well-defined natural experiment. The Air Force Academy was willing to permit the kind of external scrutiny that afforded an objective account of the facts of the first year of integration. For sixteen months the academy allowed the author to interview freely and repeatedly all persons concerned with planning and implementing women's admission. Working as a historian (with individuals and documents rather than with questionnaires), Stiehm tells the report of this first year as fully and as accurately as possible.

On the Wings of Modernism

Author : Robert Allen Nauman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028915
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book On the Wings of Modernism written by Robert Allen Nauman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nauman argues that contrary to the technological and teleological interpretations presented by the polemicists of "international style" modernism, the academy's actual production was squarely grounded in bureaucratic and political processes. He demonstrates that selection of both the site and the design firm was the result of political maneuverings involving the U.S. military leadership."--BOOK JACKET.

Contrails

Author : United States Air Force Academy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Contrails written by United States Air Force Academy and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pine Valley

Author : Hester-Jane Cogswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450289238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Pine Valley written by Hester-Jane Cogswell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists and historians have long known that houses whisper about their past. There is one such house in Pine Valley, north of Colorado Springs, Colorado. It's now the permanent residence of the presiding Commandant of Cadets of the U.S. Air Force Academy. But this house, its history, inhabitants, neighbors, and the community involvement of those people give a unique and almost time-lapse view of the history of Colorado Springs and the U.S. Air Force Academy. From frontier buffalo hunting and Indian raids in the Pikes Peak region to the U.S. Air Force Academy today, Pine Valley ties the events to the three successive owners of the home. Author Hester-Jane Cogswell narrates the story of the people and incidents that shaped Colorado Springs, including details about the early Jewel City of Pikes Peak, backgrounds of the Lennox and Otis families, and information about Pine Valley neighbors and families. Through early letters, photos, diaries, and interviews conducted by Cogswell, Pine Valley presents a unique and personal history of the beautiful and fascinating Pikes Peak region.

The United States Air Force Academy

Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States Air Force Academy written by United States Air Force Academy. Library and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best 376 Colleges

Author : Robert Franek
Publisher : Princeton Review
ISBN 13 : 0375428399
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Best 376 Colleges written by Robert Franek and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring candid feedback from more than 122,000 students from across the country, this guide to the best 376 colleges includes bonus financial aid ratings.

Deep Dark Blue

Author : Polo Tate
Publisher : Feiwel and Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250128528
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Deep Dark Blue written by Polo Tate and published by Feiwel and Friends. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing."--Provided by publisher.

Caged Eyes

Author : Lynn K. Hall
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807089346
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Caged Eyes written by Lynn K. Hall and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of misogyny and rape in the US military and her extraordinary path to recovery and activism Desperate to realize her childhood dream of being an astronaut, Lynn K. Hall was an enthusiastic young cadet. For Hall, the military offered an escape from her chaotic home—her erratic mother, absent biological father, and a man she called “dad” who sexually abused her. Resolute and committed to the Air Force Academy, Hall survived the ordeals of a first-year cadet: intense hazing from upperclassmen, grueling physical training, and demanding coursework. But she’s dismissed from the Academy when, after being raped by an upperclassman and contracting herpes, she is diagnosed with meningitis and left with chronic and debilitating pain. Betrayed by the Academy and overcome with shame, Hall candidly recounts her loss of self, the dissociation from her body and the forfeiture of her individuality as a result of the military’s demands and her perpetrator’s abuse. Forced to leave the military and return to the civilian world, Hall turns to extreme sports to cope with and overcome PTSD and chronic pain. She, in turn, reclaims herself on the mountain trails of the Colorado Rockies. An intimate account of grappling with shame and a misogynistic culture that condones rape and blames victims, Caged Eyes is also a transformative story of how it’s possible to help yourself and others in the aftermath of a profound injustice.

Heirpower!

Author : Bob Vasquez
Publisher : Military Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781780399652
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Heirpower! written by Bob Vasquez and published by Military Bookshop. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So you're 22 years old, you've just gotten your commission, you've arrived at your first duty station, you've met with your commander, and you're now 'in charge' of a group of enlisted men and women, all of whom have been in service longer than you, know a whole lot more about military life than you, and are expecting more than you know. To top it all off, your first 'subordinate' happens to be a 30-year veteran of every war you ever read about, and his rank is, yes, E-9. He's not an E-10 only because that rank doesn't exist. Now what do you do? Let me tell you. . . ." In Heirpower! Eight Basic Habits of Exceptionally Powerful Lieutenants, CMSgt Bob Vásquez, an Air Force veteran of more than 30 years, now serving as director of a freshman seminar at the US Air Force Academy's Center for Character Development, shares the views of the enlisted force in a powerful, humorous, anecdotal way that will educate and entertain you. Bob's eight habits will empower you to become an Exceptionally Powerful Lieutenant!