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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

  By Skip Hollandsworth

  Texas Monthly

  1996

• Her Own Private Tailhook

  The New York Times Magazine reports that "after the Gulf War, the Air Force Academy beefed up cadet training with a mock rape 'scenario.' Elizabeth Saum was the first casualty.

  Tags: Department of Defense; DOD military training Persian Gulf POW prisoner General Accounting Office GAO SERE Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape; irewar03; war; military

  By Laura Palmer

  New York Times Magazine

  1995

• No title (id: 6986)

  Village Voice (New York) tells the story of Joe Steffan, the gay cadet who rose to leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy only to have his homosexuality exposed and be refused the right to graduate, March 13, 1990.

  Tags: None

  By None

  Village Voice (New York)

  1990