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"A Coast Guard cadet accused of rape and other sex offenses was a manipulative senior who preyed on lonely women, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening arguments at the defendant's court-martial."

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2006 – Growing up "green" with a pair of Army parents and moving around the world influenced a West Point cadet's decision to give military life a whirl. Cadet Sgt. Philip S. Bucci, a second-generation West Pointer, said his military parents influenced his decision to attend the academy. Photo by Gerry J. Gilmore  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. "Dad graduated from West Point in 1977, and Mom was an Army nurse," recalled Cadet Sgt. Philip S. Bucci, who has just completed his second year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. "I've always...

MEMORIAL DAY 2006 -- Taps Vigil Son Jarrin is a third year cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He tells a lot of stories about the traditions there, but one stands out. It concerns the Taps Vigil. The Corps of cadets at West Point numbers about 4,000. They live in a military-structured environment. They wear the same uniforms. They have the same haircuts. They eat in the same mess hall at the same time, and they assemble in formation at the end of each day rain, sleet, or snow, to hear Taps. Taps is...

Edward G. Nalbandian, the longtime owner of Zachary All Clothing on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles who became a familiar face on local television as the commercial spokesman for his men's store, has died. He was 78. Nalbandian, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease more than nine years ago, died Feb. 22 in a nursing home in Los Angeles, his family said. Beginning in the early 1960s, Nalbandian became something of a Southern California celebrity for commercials in which he famously emphasized that clothes at his store came in sizes "Cadet, Extra Short, Regular, Long, Extra Long and Portlies." That's...

Fourteen-year-old Kaylee Marie Radzyminski peers into a music CD Saturday in her grandparentsÕ Sierra Vista home. Radzyminski is visiting for the holidays from Cleveland, Tenn. She has started a program were CDs and DVDs can be donated to U.S. troops. The program is called Tunes 4 the Troops. (Mark Levy-Herald/Review)SIERRA VISTA — U.S. Navy Sea Cadet Kaylee Marie Radzyminski, 14, wants your movies, video games and music compact discs for shipment to troops overseas. Any game, album or book in a compact disc format will work for Radzyminski’s Tunes 4 the Troops program, based out of Cleveland, Tenn. For the...

First Iraqi Cadet Class Wraps Up Officer Training The group is the first class to complete the basic officer training course under the new Iraqi army. By U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Mark Woodbury Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2005 — The Iraqi army will mark another first this week with the expected graduation of 77 cadets at the Iraqi Military Academy at Ar Rustamiyah. The group is the first class to complete the basic officer training course under the new Iraqi army. The 42-week course focuses on developing leaders of soldiers from all backgrounds and...

The following is an effort to get important information to you before you read or hear it from the news media or the rumor mill. A third class cadet was arrested today by Fountain, Colo., police and charged with sexual assault in the first degree (physical helplessness). He is currently in the custody of the Fountain Police Department. If he is released on bail, he will return to the Academy where he will continue as a cadet pending the outcome of any potential legal action. Remember, in America, everyone is presumed innocent until found guilty by a court of law....

FALLUJAH, Iraq (August 5, 2005) -- Whether overseas or in America, upholding justice, law and order has come as second nature to Scott Redhead since his late teenage years. “I was fresh out of high school when I was hired as a cadet with the Maryland State Police,” stated the 21-year-old LaVale, Md. native. “I worked for the commercial vehicle enforcement division, and we pulled over the big tractors to inspect and weigh them. We made sure they were within legal limits.” As a cadet, Redhead found himself answering to his troopers as a recruit would a drill instructor. It...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Army News Service, June 24. 2005) -- The first Afghan native to attend the U.S. Military Academy is scheduled to report for duty at West Point June 27. Shoaib Yosoufzai, one of 21 international cadets accepted as a member of the Class of 2009, comes from Laghman providence in Eastern Afghanistan. Yosoufzai spent two years at Kabul University learning civil engineering. Continuing in the engineering field and gaining a strong military background are two of the reasons he wanted to come to West Point. “I wanted a military career and the U.S. Military Academy has a very...

June 01, 2005Cadet E-mail Casts Shadow on Bias Policy (Leftist Anti-religious Bigots Strafe the Air Force Academy) By PAM ZUBECK The Air Force Academy’s top cadet commander, who graduates today, sent an e-mail to all underclassmen Tuesday making more than a dozen references to the Bible and several to Jesus. The cadet, senior Nicholas Jurewicz, said he attended the academy’s special religious sensitivity training but “didn’t think” to delete religious references before sending the message In the message, Jurewicz .......says that during his cadet years he collected quotations he wants to share. “[T]he insight of others is an avenue to...

former cadet at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point and his friend pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to smuggle the drug Ecstasy into the country, taking advantage of the academy's tradition of having cadets spend time on ocean-going merchant ships. Mark Posthumus, 30, and his friend, James Pagano, 30, both of Kendall Park, N.J., admitted in U.S. District Court in Central Islip that when Posthumus was a cadet at the academy between August 1998 and January 1999, they smuggled a total of 380,000 Ecstasy pills into the country. [snip] According to court papers, Posthumus and Pagano flew to...

If a Korean War veterans group had wanted a softball presentation by a speaker they would find agreeable, they shouldn’t have called Peter Kirstein. More than simply being anti-war, the St. Xavier University history professor just might be the sharpest and most outspoken critic of the military within a reasonable drive of the North Shore. In a sometimes heated exchange with a Wilmette- based veterans’ roundtable recently, Kirstein debated the impending conflict with Iraq, but also blasted the military’s growing role in foreign policy and its conduct in all modern wars. “We normally hear that it’s the military that is...

The Nutty Professor The other day a friend of mine forwarded an account of an e-mail exchange between a cadet at the Air Force Academy and a professor at St. Xavier University. The cadet was innocently informing the college about an event called The Academy Assembly, a gathering where political subjects are discussed and inquiring about the best methods of advertising in the St. Xavier area. The letter ended up in the hands of a certain professor, Peter Kirstein, and here is the professor’s reply: “You are a disgrace to this country and I’m furious you would even think I...

Statement regarding Professor Peter N. Kirstein, Ph.D. Richard A. Yanikoski, Ph.D. President, Saint Xavier University November 15, 2002 During recent weeks Saint Xavier University has attracted national attention because a tenured professor of history sent a young Air Force Academy cadet some e-mail containing inflammatory, anti-military comments. Professor Peter N. Kirstein, an avowed pacifist, quickly apologized to the cadet and to the Air Force Academy for his e-mail message, but in the meantime thousands of other interested parties have taken offense. From the beginning of this incident, Saint Xavier University has worked to achieve four objectives: (1) to make things...

THE HATE-FILLED LEFTIST PROFESSOR OK .. in response to nearly 100 very demanding e-mail messages, here is what I have been able to find out about that incredible letter from the history professor at Saint Xavier University in Chicago to that cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The Air Force Academy has a program called The Academy Assembly. You will read a description of The Academy Assembly below. An Air Force Academy cadet named Robert Kurpiel sent an e-mail to which ended up in the hands of Peter Kirstein at Saint Xavier. Here is the text of that e-mail:...

Classmates, friends, relatives and professors all ask seniors the same question -- "what are you going to do after you graduate?" Most will attend grad school, work in the corporate world, or go home and print out more resumes. But I don't fall into any of those categories. I'm taking my diploma off into the wild blue yonder ... as part of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). I'll spend July going through field training at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Once I finish, I will be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Then I'm off to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.,...