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Religious Intolerance in the U.S. Air Force Academy
This story exposed incidents of religious bullying and an atmosphere of religious intolerance at the U.S. Air Force Academy. It includes the first television interview with Melinda Morton, the Air Force Academy Chaplain who blew the whistle about religious bigotry at the academy. Morton's charges spawned a Pentagon task force and generated interest from Congress. The academy's superintendent retired early after the charges became public.
Tags: religion; evangelical Christian; Air Force Academy; discrimination; Air Force
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AIr Force Academy Sexual Assault ?
Zubeck investigates story of one female cadet's accusation of rape while she was a student at the Airforce Academy, raising questions about whether it was rape or consensual sex.
Tags: abuse; assault; scandal; air force; Senate Armed Services Committee; consensual sex
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Conduct unbecoming
This 12-month investigation revealed how an Air Force Academy cadet was being charged with rape despite undisputed facts in the case indicating his innocence. The report suggested the cadet was being made a scapegoat for the academy, which had not forwarded to a military court a single case of more than 100 sexual assault allegations. Following the publication of Potter's detailed narrative, the rape charge against the cadet was dismissed and the Secretary of the Air Force withdrew his name from being considered for the position of Secretary of the Army.
Tags: Air Force Academy sex scandal; cadet; rape; investigative narrative
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Air Force Academy Sexual Assault Scandal.
Studies have shown that the Air Force Academy has been a hostile place for most female cadets. This story is an in-depth investigation of the charges of sexual assault and the subsequent cover up of the charges. The Gazette revealed that in the past decade there were at least 142 sexual assaults that had been reported but few were actually investigated and hardly any cadets were reprimanded. As this investigation reveals, despite top officials being involved in the investigation proceedings, they did nothing to put an end to the problem.
Tags: sexual assault; Air Force Academy; sexual assault scandal; Air Force Academy Sexual Assault Scandal; women cadets
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Honor and Betrayal: Scandal at the Academy
KMGH TV looks at cases of sexual assault and harassment in the United States Air Force Academy. The in-depth report narrates various incidents where women cadets have been assaulted and raped. According to the report these cadets were actually punished if they reported the attacks.
Tags: sexual assault; Air Force Academy; air force women cadets; rape
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The War Within
The Westword exposes cases of rape and sexual assault in the Air Force Academy. The article is about the rape of two female cadets who were punished, blamed or kicked out of the academy after they reported the incidents. The investigation revealed that many such incidents went unreported. In the days after the article was first published sixty women called Senator Wayne Allard to say that they were also raped and were mistreated after reporting the crime.
Tags: Rape; sexual assault; Air Force Academy; Lisa Ballas; Jessica Brakey; Senator Wayne Allard; female cadets
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Shifting Standards at AFA
A Colorado Springs Gazette investigation reveals that the United States Air Force Academy "let's in an increasing number of students who don't meet its academic minimums even as it rejects thousands of applicants who do. The largest share of waivers goes to to recruited athletes. A confidential Air Force report says waivered cadets are less likely to graduate, become pilots, move into critical high-tech jobs and rise to the service's top echelons. The report concluded the academy is 'losing its competitive edge.'"
Tags: Air Force Academy; cadets; academics; school; university; military; planes; pilots; training; war; bombs
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Air Force Academy Superintendent Kitchen Spending
A Gazette investigation revealed that the Air Force Academy "used military readiness money to remodel generals' homes including $308,000 spent on a kitchen.... The Air Force isn't alone in the practice. The Navy recently told Congress it had spent $5.6 million in readiness money on admirals' homes... "
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Sports before Service
The Gazette investigated the Air Force's practice of releasing academy graduates early from service commitments to play professional football.
Tags: Air Force Academy; football; NFL; release; Chris Gizzi Beau Morgan Chad Hennings Navy David Robinson NBA
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"The Killer Cadets"
In the early morning hours of December 4, 1995, a farmer driving along a desolate country road saw the body of a teenage girl on the ground behind a barbed-wire fence. The girl's face was nearly unrecognizable. One bullet hole was in her left cheek, another in her forehead. Within hours, police officers identified her as Adrianne Jones, a sixteen-year-old high school student from the town of Mansfield, southeast of Fort Worth. It would take months of work for police to track down her killers. They were two intelligent, promising students -- Diane Zamora and David Graham -- who had been admitted to the Naval and Air Force Academies, respectively, and were desperately, obsessively in love. David told police Diane told him to kill Adrianne -- who had a brief tryst with David -- in order to "cleanse" the impurity from their relationship.
Tags: David Graham; Diane Zamora; Adrianne Jones; teenage murder; Mansfield