Cadets face lecture

Cadets face lecture

(EXCERPT) By The Associated Press August 26, 2003

AIR FORCE ACADEMY - The entire cadet corps will get a dressing down
because of a weekend underage drinking incident that embarrassed an
Air Force Academy still struggling to overcome a sexual assault
scandal, the new superintendent said today.

All 4,000 students at the academy outside Colorado Springs will be
lectured Thursday about the consequences to their military careers and
to the institution, Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa told The Associated Press in
an interview.

"We're going to try to turn this around Thursday to a positive, say,
'Look, if we knock this behavior off we're going to move forward,"'
Rosa said. "'Every time we have this kind of behavior, we backstep. We
backstep in the eyes of ourselves, of our peers. We backstep in the
eyes of Colorado Springs, of Colorado, of this nation. We cannot
afford to do that."' The speech will be given by Brig. Gen. Johnny
Weida, commandant...

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