According to the DOD report, some form of sexual assault was visited on four percent of female cadets at the Air Force Academy during the 2004-05 academic year. The figures for West Point and Annapolis were (respectively) six and five percent. Moreover, sexist behavior was experienced by 96 percent of female Army cadets, 93 percent of women Navy midshipmen, and 82 percent of female Air Force cadets.
2nd Lt. Leah A. Borsich, an Air Force civil engineer, was among the eight people killed when a contractor plane crashed near a remote Alaskan radar site last week, officials announced Aug. 24.