Milestone complete! Class of 2025 cadets graduate CFT
At the end of a long, challenging month, the Class of 2025 cadets finally completed Cadet Field Training on June 12 with a CFT graduation and awards ceremony at Landing Zone Owl at Camp Buckner. ...
CFT cadets work on mortar range, team live fire
U.S. Military Academy Class of 2025 cadets receive familiarization instruction on firing mortars from Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team “Rakkasans,ˮ 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) during Cadet Field Training June 7 at West Point. ...
USMA Class of 2022 members graduate during June ceremony
Family and friends gathered at Eisenhower Hall to celebrate the triumph of (above from left to right) Class of 2022 Cadets Brooke Allen, Shelby Rotchford and Matthew Schirmer as they graduated and commissioned as second lieutenants on June 10 at the U.S. Military Academy. ...
Civilian instructors get immersed in cadet field experience
Normally, their uniforms are professional civilian attire, but for these few days in the late spring, they suited up in Army uniforms with tightly laced boots....
Cadet candidates receive insight on academy during SLE
High schoolers donned their war paint as they readied themselves for one insightful week of the West Point experience. Eager and ambitious, the young hopefuls explored what it meant to be a cadet while performing military and academic duties during the annual West Point Summer Leaders Experience between May 28-June 10 at the U.S. Military Academy. ...
West Point honors those who gave the ultimate sacrifice
Col. Evangeline Rosel (left), the West Point Garrison Commander, Lt. Col. Donald Williamson (right), the West Point Garrison Chaplain, and Spc. Dylan Bocash, member of the West Point Military Police Company, presented a wreath in front of Battle Monument during the Memorial Day Observance May 30 at Trophy Point. ...
Lafayette’s visit to West Point honored with historical marker
Jérémie Robert (above right), consul general of France in New York, helped unveil a new historical marker (above) commemorating the 1824 and 1825 visits to West Point of Maj. Gen. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, a hero of the American Revolution....
Honoring Gavin, D-Day
A wreath-laying ceremony to honor Lt. Gen. James Gavin, U.S. Military Academy 1929 graduate, at his gravestone took place Monday at the West Point Cemetery....
Cadet Summer Training: Training future leaders
The U.S. Military Academy started its Cadet Summer Training at Camp Buckner and Camp Natural Bridge in late May....
A celebration of West Point authors
Christopher Barth, the associate dean and director of Libraries and Archives at the U.S. Military Academy, was the master of ceremonies during an event that highlighted more than 300 works of scholarship produced at the academy between July and December 2021 on May 5 at the Haig Room in Jefferson Hall. ...