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section or – check section meaning we give the students their check rides when
they’re going through the program and you go to Stan Eval which is, evaluating

somebody, Stan Eval was the icing on the cake, but ole Pete Hargrove couldn’t go
to Stan Eval because he had an attitude problem.

I’m like, “Wow. Well a dude that’s doing all that I got going on, had an attitude
problem?” You know, that – I'm going to end up talking all in circles because it's
just something that you see and you start looking at your surroundings.

When a squadron, a flying squadron, sends two people’s names up to be the next
Stan Eval, to take over the next two Stan Eval positions and the DO says that the
black guy has an attitude problem, and the girl is too bossy. that’s just a bigot. Is
that typical, or what?

I had an attitude problem. What is my attitude problem? For continuing to
perform? Why is she too bossy? Because she performs?

The person he said that about, about the young lady. Greatest young person in
the world you know. Had her act together, and yet the two of us were going to get
– we were going to get cut off from the opportunity to get the highest position
possible as an instructor pilot because he thought I had an attitude problem and
she was too bossy.

Ivan: Too bossy.

Pete H: As this turned out, somebody supported her well enough for her to go ahead and
go to Stan Eval…

Pete H: I’ve got to express the fact that – and I know there is a couple of times I know I’ve
said this before, but the fact that when my brother first showed up at the Air Force
Academy in 1970, that was only two years after they had a silent treatment of the
black cadets at the Air Force Academy. Okay.

Ivan: The class of ‘70 or showed up at ‘70.

Pete H: He showed up – he is class of ‘75. He was in the prep school, but he graduated in
75.

Ivan: Okay.