COLORADO SPRINGS — Driving along the winding roads of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Allison Hickey looks out at the snowy forested mountains of the campus, a place she first came to by bus as a teenager almost 40 years ago, and admits it still haunts her.Hickey, 57, now a retired brigadier general and one of the highest-ranking women at the Department of Veterans Affairs, was in the first class of female cadets to graduate in 1980.
They endured frequent threats from male classmates, she recalled. She was once cornered by a male cadet yelling: "If I could take you behind a barn right now and beat the you-know-what out of you, I would."Her time at the academy made her "very uncomfortable." It was a feeling that would stick throughout her trailblazing career, bedeviling her but making her stronger, a leader.
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