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Two Air Force Academy cadets die days apart in suspected suicides

By Emma Colton
Published April 1, 2020 2:19pm ET
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Two Air Force Academy cadets die days apart in suspected suicides
An official at the Air Force Academy apologized for "microaggressions" after Master Sgt. Zachary Parish wrote Wednesday in a school-wide email on haircut standards: "He was never seen with a gaudy chain around his neck, his pants below his waistline, or with a backwards baseball hat on during public appearances." (U.S. Air Force photo by Mike Kaplan / Wikimedia Commons) | Mike Kaplan

The Air Force Academy announced two senior cadets died within days of each other in suspected suicides amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The academy, located in Colorado, sent freshmen, sophomores, and juniors home as the virus spreads across the country but kept the roughly 1,000 seniors on campus. The two cadets died on Thursday and Saturday in what appear to have been suicides.

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