Air Force Academy Twists its Own Code
By AAN Staff
july 18, 2003 05:04 pm
For more than 40 years, cadets at the United States Air Force Academy have pledged to abide by a simple code: "We will not lie, steal, or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does." Westword's Julie Jargon talks to some cadets who recently were booted out of the academy just before graduation. They say that simple code is remarkably complex. "They claim that it's a moribund tradition with unevenly applied sanctions -- a fact that academy officials and members of Congress have known for years," Jargon writes.