According to command officials and an internal inquiry, more than two dozen aspiring pilots who were found cheating on a written test in September 2022 while enrolled in the Army’s flight school at Fort Rucker, Alabama, were given another shot and passed a retest on Thursday.
An Army Aviation Center of Excellence officer’s 212-page internal inquiry, which was obtained by Army Times, describes the cheating ring among officers and warrant officers enrolled in the service’s initial entry rotary wing training course. They made use of a “altered” copy of a government document that Army Times also acquired that contained the solutions to an open-book doctrine test. None of the students were sentenced to administrative sanctions that would “have a lasting effect on their career” or faced court-martial for the cheating, Thaggard stated in a phone interview.
