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UF News - 9/14/07
UF Air Force ROTC cadet soars above competition
By KIM WILMATH, Alligator Writer
Maureen Hartney said she isn't perfect. She's still 15 push-ups shy of her
62-a-minute goal. She only has a 3.9 GPA. She hasn't saved the world yet.
Hartney, the 20-year-old UF Air Force ROTC Wing Commander, recently
topped thousands of cadets when she was named the Air Force
Association's Outstanding Cadet of the Year.
She'll accept her award in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 23, five days after her
21st birthday, which is also the birthday of the Air Force, she said.
Air Force ROTC headquarters also rated UF's program "outstanding" for the
first time in the program's 65-year history. Only the top 5 percent of the 144
ROTC units in the nation receive that title, said Capt. Scott Norman, UF's
ROTC Commandant of Cadets.
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