Posted on Jan 24, 2023
Flight school cheating ring ends in second chances for hopeful pilots
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Flight school cheating ring ends in second chances for hopeful pilots
An investigator found as many as 27 students had violated the course’s honor code.
By Davis Winkie
Jan 24, 08:35 AM
High school students fly in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a Meet Your Army event at Fort Rucker, Ala., Jan 9. 2023. (Lt. Col. Andy Thaggard/Army)
More than two dozen hopeful pilots who were caught cheating on a written test in September 2022 while attending the Army’s flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, received a second chance and passed a retest on Thursday, according to command officials and an internal investigation.
Army Times obtained a 212-page internal investigation by an Army Aviation Center of Excellence officer detailing the cheating ring among officers and warrant officers attending the service’s initial entry rotary wing training course. They used an “altered” version of an official publication — which Army Times also obtained — that contained the answers to an open-book doctrine exam.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT (Join to see)] Sgt (Join to see) GySgt Jack Wallace SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada 1SG Paul Ayotte CPT Richard Trione SFC Ralph E Kelley 1SG Patrick Burke PV2 Scott Mollette SGT Gerald “Jerry” Harrell Lt Col Charlie Brown
Flight school cheating ring ends in second chances for hopeful pilots
An investigator found as many as 27 students had violated the course’s honor code.
By Davis Winkie
Jan 24, 08:35 AM
High school students fly in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during a Meet Your Army event at Fort Rucker, Ala., Jan 9. 2023. (Lt. Col. Andy Thaggard/Army)
More than two dozen hopeful pilots who were caught cheating on a written test in September 2022 while attending the Army’s flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, received a second chance and passed a retest on Thursday, according to command officials and an internal investigation.
Army Times obtained a 212-page internal investigation by an Army Aviation Center of Excellence officer detailing the cheating ring among officers and warrant officers attending the service’s initial entry rotary wing training course. They used an “altered” version of an official publication — which Army Times also obtained — that contained the answers to an open-book doctrine exam.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT (Join to see)] Sgt (Join to see) GySgt Jack Wallace SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada 1SG Paul Ayotte CPT Richard Trione SFC Ralph E Kelley 1SG Patrick Burke PV2 Scott Mollette SGT Gerald “Jerry” Harrell Lt Col Charlie Brown
Flight school cheating ring ends in second chances for hopeful pilots
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL I might get backlash for this but I don't think there should have been a second chance. Peoples lives are at risk. What if they weren't caught and the f*cked up someplace because they didn't know what to do? They could have got innocent people killed.
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Humans will be humans, even West Pointers, have gotten solders kill with their decisions, I had one CO, that got his company men killed in Vietnam. He had a nick name out of Vietnam they gave him. I don't remember it all, but it was something like, "???, Crispy Critters". I was told, in the Nam, he called in a air strike, that killed some of his men.
He wasn't a bad CO, and I liked him, but the name stuck with him.
That doesn't mean, he was a bad leader, at the time, it might have been just that, a bad decision at the time.
No way, a human can predict, an out come of a Human's, direction, only speak of the, "ATF". (After the fact)
I've met, and known some very good NCO's, that didn't have an education backing, didn't graduate from school, one, only had 8th grade. Most on them were draftees, and could keep you alive, what ever the situation, at the time.
Yes, it was, or maybe, for the said, or written rules, but in life, I learned a long time ago, "How do you win the game?" "You, change the rules!"
Thanks, Joe, for your post, and I respect your education.
He wasn't a bad CO, and I liked him, but the name stuck with him.
That doesn't mean, he was a bad leader, at the time, it might have been just that, a bad decision at the time.
No way, a human can predict, an out come of a Human's, direction, only speak of the, "ATF". (After the fact)
I've met, and known some very good NCO's, that didn't have an education backing, didn't graduate from school, one, only had 8th grade. Most on them were draftees, and could keep you alive, what ever the situation, at the time.
Yes, it was, or maybe, for the said, or written rules, but in life, I learned a long time ago, "How do you win the game?" "You, change the rules!"
Thanks, Joe, for your post, and I respect your education.
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My college honor system applies here: I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do. The flight line is the last place you want to encounter someone who got there by cheating!
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