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(U.S. Air Force photo by Joshua Armstrong)
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin (front), commandant of cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, chats with a group of cadets on the terrazzo, Nov. 13, 2018. The five cadets seen here helped a family out of an overturned vehicle after it lost traction and slid off the highway near Breckenridge, Nov. 11, 2018.
By Jennifer Spradlin | U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY PUBLIC AFFAIRS U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — Returning from a weekend ski trip in Breckenridge, Colorado, five Air Force Academy cadets witnessed the vehicle in front of them fishtail, turn perpendicular to the road and slide off the ridge. Fearing the passengers were injured, Cadets 3rd Class Connor Settle, Joseph Canoy, Karl Boerwinkle, Joel Krause and Antonino Del Rossa decided to act. Krause remained with the car and dialed 911 while the other four grabbed their jackets and moved down the hill to locate the vehicle. “It was instinctual. We knew they needed someone to help, and there was no one else
on the road, so we took the responsibility into our own hands,” Del Rossa said. The cadets could hear the trapped driver honking his horn as they descended. The vehicle had plummeted more than 100 feet and landed upside down in the wood line and the rear end of the vehicle was collapsed. “We weren’t really scared going down, but when we saw the car, I was pretty nervous about their safety,” Canoy said. The cadets helped the driver and passenger get free. The driver kept yelling that his daughter was trapped in the back. Unable to pry the door open, Settle smashed the window to attempt to locate
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and free her. The daughter was eventually be minor injuries. “Once we got back in the car, I said, ‘I’m able to crawl forward and escape through really proud of us, that there was no hesitathe same door as her parents. “The Academy has exposed us to stressful tion,’ and I was really happy that as a group situations, like basic training, and I think of friends were able to work together like that’s why none of us were panicked,” that,” Canoy said. Boerwinkle said. Brig. Gen. Kristin Goodwin, the Academy’s Krause similarly acknowledged exposure commandant recognized the caCelebra ting its 29thofyecadets, ar, Sn oF est isofa the festiv for their actions in front entire to first aid and medevac procedures helped e military w of sk iing,dets snow boarding, a hilar iou s ca rd bo Cadet Wing. them remain calm throughout the accident ar d derby, a Sa night party, non-sk ier activ ities to anthe d grcaliber of the “Their actions speak response. ated with su bstant ia l savings to sw eat family fun – all p The cadets lent their coats to the family cadets we have here at the Academy, and ee ten the ex perience. You’re invited to join us they Fr id ay and stayed with them until the paramedics how the training receive here can – Su nd ay , Ja nube at Keystone Resort, ar y 11-13 one of thelocal arrived. The cadets were relieved toDlearn just as applicable community prem ier resortsasin the co on’t be surprised to se in the e mshe the family escaped with what appeared to in combat zones,” ilitasaid. ry families th
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