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Family, friends experience the ‛Cadet Life’

West Point was teeming with visitors as cadets and their families and friends reconnected during a picturesque fall weekend....

Beale receives 2022 Nininger Award

In 2011, Lt. Col. Robert Beale held the rank of captain and served as the Air Mission Commander with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. ...

Fire Department Open House

Members of the West Point community attended the West Point Fire Department’s Open House event at West Point’s Commissary and PX Parking Lot on Oct. 12....

DPW, Dean, Girl Scouts team up to survey Urban Forest

West Point Agronomist/Arborist Phil Koury had a problem. The U.S. Military Academy installation tree survey had last been completed in the mid 1990s, and it existed only on three-ring binders in his office, making the data inaccessible to the public. The survey really needed both an update and a transformation into a digital format, but a firm would charge tens of thousands of dollars to perform that work. ...

American spirit at Yankee Stadium

Members of the U.S. Corps of Cadets presented the colors (above and bottom left) while the West Point Band Vocal Quartet sang a rendition of the National Anthem before Game 1 of the American League Division Series Oct. 11 at Yankee Stadium. ...

Cadets explore diplomatic tactics during MWI event

Eager hands were raised to discuss military tactics during the Modern War Institute event as Jennifer Spindel, an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, challenged cadets with questions related to diplomacy and non-violent strategies during wartime, among other topics, on Oct. 4, 2022, at the U.S. Military Academy. ...

USMA signs Army Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamation

U.S. Military Academy Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland, was joined by Col. Anthony J. Bianchi, U.S. Army Garrison West Point commander; Col. Brianna M. Perata, Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point Health Service Area commander; Command Sgts. Maj. Michael J. Coffey, Michel R. Fraser and Jan “Eddyˮ Miller in signing the Army Domestic Violence Awareness Proclamation for October at Keller Community Hospital on Oct. 6. ...

Cadets engage solving real-world problems, Army issues at AUSA

Cadets actively engage in solving real-world problems and Army issues at the largest land power exposition and professional development forum in North America at this year’s AUSA Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington D.C., Monday and Tuesday. ...

Fisher receives 2022 Thayer Award for his philanthropy to service members

Cadets, staff and faculty gathered at Washington Hall to attend the annual Sylvanus Thayer Award Banquet to honor philanthropist Kenneth Fisher as this year’s awardee for his dedicated service to military service members and veterans on Oct. 6 at the U.S. Military Academy....

ROTC, West Point cadets collab on SOCOM Ignite innovation solutions

Eleven cadets took their academic acumen on the road recently to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to participate in the 2023 SOCOM Ignite Kickoff. In all, over 70 ROTC and West Point cadets worked to develop innovative solutions to SOCOM-submitted technical challenges. ...