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A 21-year-old West Point cadet from Michigan who says she wants to use her math skills to help attack Detroit's social problems after leaving the Army is one of 32 Americans named Sunday as Rhodes scholars, who will get the opportunity to spend two to three years at Britain's Oxford University. Calla Glavin, who grew up in Birmingham, is a math major at the U.S. Military Academy, where she played goaltender for the Army's women's lacrosse team. She also goaltended for Birmingham Seaholm High School, helping her team win a state lacrosse championship her junior year. A New Mexico woman attending the United States Military Academy at West Point is one of 32 American students who were selected as the newest Rhodes Scholars and will enter Oxford University next October. Cadet Erin A.T. Mauldin of Albuquerque is a senior majoring in international history and is the only non-French woman to have completed a four-week course at the French Commando School in Mont-Louis, France.

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After setting out for medical school, Cadet Capt. Brandon J. Moore made a 180 degree turn to study at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Today, he’s a senior, or a firstie as they’re called, looking forward to his future as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army. Moore’s road into the military was not a typical one. He wasn’t groomed for it and he doesn’t come from a military family. Instead, he chose a military career, and said going to West Point has been the best decision he could have made. While he’s home in Torrington for the Thanksgiving holiday, Moore is conducting recruiting efforts to educate other potential candidates about the school and military life. Moore, who was raised in Torrington, graduated from Avon Old Farms in 2008. Military service wasn’t on his mind upon graduation. His thoughts were on medical school, and he spent time working at Hartford Hospital.

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For more than two centuries, the iconic U.S. Military Academy at West Point has educated and trained the U.S. Army’s leaders from its fortress location in the historic Hudson River Valley.  This is also the home of the modern environmental movement and an important part of NRDC’s “backyard,” with our headquarters based just an hour south in New York City. Now, not only we will we have shared geography, but also shared clean energy goals, as West Point adds to its legacy by making history on energy security and clean energy. Just last week, West Point issued a draft plan laying out options to improve energy efficiency and generate more renewable energy on site.

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The U.S. Military Academy graduation dates for the Classes of 2015-2017 have been adjusted by academy officials. Future graduation ceremony dates have been re-evaluated and have been changed from an earlier announcement this year. In order to de-conflict academic, graduation, pre-commissioning and summer training events, the adjusted dates are as follows:
 
Class of 2015 – Saturday, May 23
Class of 2016 – Saturday, May 21
Class of 2017 – Saturday, May 27

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A group of community leaders met Tuesday to hear from a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy. Cadet Ben Nichols, a Bentonville High School graduate and West Point senior, attended a lunchtime meeting of city, school and religious leaders to speak about his experience at West Point. “We have a cross-section of what I call key leaders in our community,” Paul Mlakar, West Point alum and organizer of Tuesday’s event, said. Nichols said while West Point is considered an Ivy League university, it is primarily a leadership academy.

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They were fourth- and fifth-graders when terror struck on Sept. 11, 2001, and they have only hazy recollections of the day that galvanized the young men and women who filled these halls in the decade that followed. Now, the seniors at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are poised to become the first in a generation to enter a force preparing not to fight insurgents in Iraq or Afghanistan but to confront shrinking budgets and a postwar identity crisis. In doing so, they will be taking the helm of Army units made up of combat-seasoned veterans.

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An Army Cadet from our area who attends West Point Military Academy returned home for the Thanksgiving holidays. Jacob Scoggin is from Decatur, and attends West Point, where he is a junior. Scoggin plans to attend medical school after he graduates from West Point, and he plans to be an army medical surgeon. He talked about the opportunities the school offers and the people that he has met at West Point.

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As college juniors, Emily Buck and Parker Callaghan have standard pieces of wisdom to share with high school seniors: Test out of as many classes as you can, don’t expect great food and get ready to meet some of the best friends you’ll ever have. But, as cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, they also have a few pieces of advice that you won’t hear from most college students or admissions reps: Get your medical examination soon, don’t forget to request a congressional nomination and be prepared to lose most of your free time. Buck and Callaghan graduated from Bow and Concord High schools, respectively, in 2011 and are now juniors at West Point in New York.

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A group of cadets and an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in the state of New York have established a Japan Club to increase opportunities to learn Japanese language and culture at the prestigious army training school. The Navy and Air Force, which send a large number of troops to Japan, offer courses on Japanese language and culture in their academies. But students at West Point do not have many opportunities to familiarize themselves with things Japanese. Japan Club members plan to start full-scale activities from the beginning of next year. The group that launched the club includes Japanese-American students and a Japanese instructor, and set up the club hoping to increase the number of Japan experts in the army.

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