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• Undergraduate Pilot Training |
488 |
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• Undergraduate Pilot Training – Helicopter |
15 |
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• Undergraduate Navigator Training |
71 |
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• Directed Duty |
100 |
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• Scholarships/Fellowships |
6 |
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• Short Master Program |
39 |
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• Medical School |
22 |
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• Law School |
0 |
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• Regular AFIT |
0 |
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• Commission in US Marine Corps |
2 |
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• Commission in the US Navy |
4 |
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• Commission in the US Army |
2 |
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• Allied Students |
3 |
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• Disqualified for Commission – Aptitude |
2 |
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• Disqualified for Commission – Medical |
2 |
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• Graduate Posthumously |
0 |
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• Highest attrition of ANY class in Air Force Academy history (48%) |
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• Highest percentage turnout for 30th Reunion of any class (50%) |
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• Second class to go online |
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• Largest number of non-grads to attend a reunion (24) |
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• Earliest date for traditional Recognition ceremony (15 Apr 1972) |
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• Last class with purple A-jackets |
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• Last class with pointed-hood parkas |
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• Last class to be issued slide rules (without calculators) |
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• First class with a cadet from El Salvador |
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• First class with an official Falcon football Jersey with our class year as the number (from Jim Dearien) |
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• First class to have doolies in the Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps and to have members all four years |
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• The doolie class who moved the Minuteman III missile from the Fieldhouse almost halfway up the Old Dorm ramp |
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• First class with a cadet to discover a comet (Spence Roberts, 1974) and registered by USAFA. The comet is named Roberts Schwitters Falcon |
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• First class to do a Senior Shuffle |
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• Last class to have a squadron nicknamed "Evil Eight" (from Bob Orwig) |
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• Last class to have a squadron nicknamed "Playboy 19" (from Buck Rogers) |
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• Last class to have a squadron nicknamed "Frat Five" (from Curt DeVries) |
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• Last class to go through without seeing female cadets or female ATOs (from Dennis Brooks) |
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• First class with the Starship Enterprise on a patch (Starship Nine, AKA Winer Niners, AKA Nookie Niners) |
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• Only class with unauthorized females participating in Graduation (marching in cadet uniforms with the squadrons) |
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• Last class to have "6 and 120" as a punishment (not too sure about that one) |
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• The class with the "Phantom Feeler" |
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• Last class to have a cadet fly through combat airspace in Vietnam (Bill Lyerly during Operation Non-Com straying into the DMZ on a transport) |
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• Jerry Macken entered with '74, served doolie year in CS-10, took a year off, and came back as a 3-degree with '75 in CS-40 |
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• Ralph Paul entered with '73, served doolie year in CS-24, left the Academy, and re-entered as a 3-degree with '75 in CS-03 |
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• Bruce Freund entered with '75, and came back to graduate with '76 |
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• Geoff Lawrence entered with '75, and came back to graduate with '76 |
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• Mark Williams entered with ‘75 and came back to graduate with '76 |
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• Roy Rice was given a choice between jail and going to the Zoo |
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• Dan Burda gave up a lucrative career as an underwear model to enter with '75 |
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• Mike Marro was a member of MENSA before he went to the Zoo |
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• Phil Benjamin was a world class chess player and competitor before going to the Zoo |
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• Jim Carlson may be the last guy to have accepted an appointment to the class of ’75–he was notified 2 weeks before 5 July 1971 to report |
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for in-processing (the primary candidate bailed at the last minute)–and Carlson was already packed to report to Lackland for enlisted basic |
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training that same month) |
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• Dan O’Steen traveled the farthest for doolie in-processing in 1971 (from Taiwan) |
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• Stan Schoener (CS-33 and CS-35) could not visit Israel while a cadet because as a dual Israeli and American citizen, he was subject to being |
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drafted into the Israeli Army–particularly during the '73 Yom Kippur War when we were 2 Degrees |
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• Marty Stytz lost 3 roommates during First BCT, and had no roommate for 10 days |
