Published: October 1, 2006

Taken for a Ride

Free helicopter flights draw educators into a military recruitment drive.

When a Black Hawk helicopter descended from the sky, raising dust and a deafening noise, to land at New Jersey’s Egg Harbor Township High School on a Tuesday morning in May, Margaret Beninati was eager to climb aboard. The business and computer teacher had accepted an invitation to spend a day with recruiters from New Jersey’s National Guard specifically so that she could ride...