The Class of 50 Years Ago

摘要

On July 11,1955-50 years ago this month-306 young men entered the gates of Lowry AFB, Colo., to become the inaugural class at a brand-new school created to train officers for the Air Force. Four years later, after moving to the Air Force Academy's permanent location in Colorado Springs, Colo., 206 of them were commissioned as second lieutenants. Many of these Air Force ground-breakers would go on to pilot training and be ready to go during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Many later served valiantly in the Vietnam War, and more than a dozen eventually became general officers. These are the stories of some of them.