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27 Army Helicopter Students Allowed to continue after cheating on written test

2023-01-25

[AT] 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,

...soon to be renamed Fort Novosel, according to previous announcements...

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.

Aviation Center of Excellence spokesperson Lt. Col. Andy Thaggard confirmed the violations in a statement emailed to Army Times on Thursday in response to questions about the investigation. The spokesperson stressed that “all flight school students, regardless of if they are from the U.S. Army or one of our Allies and Partners, are briefed multiple times during orientation about...standards and expectations — including the Honor Code.”

Thaggard added that the center’s top general, Maj. Gen. Michael McCurry, met individually with the implicated students and decided to give “each Soldier...an opportunity to successfully complete flight school.”

None of the students faced court-martial for the cheating, nor did they receive any administrative punishments that would “have a lasting effect on their career,” Thaggard added in a phone interview.

Posted by:Slenter Panda4300

#7 You can cheat a test, but you can’t cheat the ground. The ground is very hard. If you are going to cheat on something, choose something other than the astronautics curriculum.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-25 21:11

#6 Cheating on an open book test?? Holy Sikorsky, Batman, we are screwed. (Ps, as an old rotorhead wrench, love the Jesus nut reference.)

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2023-01-25 16:36

#5 Kobayashi Maru

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-01-25 15:33

#4 None of the students faced court-martial for the cheating, nor did they receive any administrative punishments that would “have a lasting effect on their career,” Thaggard added in a phone interview.

1. "No lasting effect..." You have gotta be joking. At the very least this goes in their document jacket and will follow them forever...

2. How many were part of the new 'oppressed classes' (not that we have a gender / racial / 'alternate life style' quota that has to be met, no sirree!)?

Posted by: magpie 2023-01-25 12:57

#3 What kind of test:

How does the Jesus Nut work?

How many ways is Jesus Nut offensive?

Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-01-25 10:28

#2 "If you're not cheating, getting caught, and being given another chance... you're trying too hard."

Posted by: Bugs Hupereger7556 2023-01-25 09:53

#1 ” Improvise, Adapt, Overcome ”

Shows some, yet to be crushed, initiative.

Posted by: Skidmark 2023-01-25 09:52

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