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An Ohio member of the black U.S. Army troops known as Buffalo Soldiers has been honored in the Congressional Record. Ohio Congressman Mike Turner made the entry Wednesday honoring contributions by Col. Charles Young, who died in 1922. Turner says Young was acting superintendent of Sequoia National Parks in California and was the third black person to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Two years ago, a San Marcos neighborhood came together to remember Paul Peña, a graduate of San Marcos Baptist Academy and the U.S. Military Academy who was killed in Afghanistan in Jan. 2010. The journey eventually led Peña’s friends and family to City Hall, when the San Marcos City Council unanimously approved a resolution to change the name of Hills of Hays Park to Captain Paul Peña Park.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army lacrosse fans around the country will have the opportunity to watch the Black Knights at least three times this spring. Thanks in large part to an extensive Patriot League television package, the highly anticipated 95th meeting between Army and Navy at Michie Stadium, along with the Black Knights’ visit to defending champion Bucknell, will air live on CBS Sports Network. In addition, Army’s regular-season finale at Johns Hopkins will be carried to a national audience on ESPNU.
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Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn arrived in Little Rock on the evening of Jan. 28 and took a room at the luxurious Anthony House, the capital city’s leading hotel. He had been assigned by the Secretary of War to command the Trans-Mississippi District on Jan.10, as previously stated. Among Van Dorn’s appointed staff officers were two Virginians, West Pointers with over 15 years service in the old army.
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TroopSwap.com, a fast growing ecommerce platform exclusively for veterans, service members and their families today announced that Mark McLaughlin, CEO of Palo Alto Networks and former CEO of Verisign, has joined the companys advisory board. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Mr. McLaughlin possesses a unique blend of military and technological expertise the company will use to further distribution of military discounts in a digital environment.
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Major Stephen C. Flanagan of the U.S. Army Special Forces served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Tewksbury, Mass., native is in the Mid-Career Master in Public Administration program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The previous year, he had completed courses in the human development and psychology program in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His next stop will be teaching at the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership department.
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Yes Virginia, there are atheists in foxholes… and they don’t always receive equal or unbiased treatment in the military. That’s why organizations like the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF) was created to represent them and speak on their behalf. On February 1st and 2nd, residents of Los Angeles and Ventura counties will have the opportunity to hear MAAF president Jason Torpy do just that. After earning top graduate honors from two intelligence training programs, he was offered direct admission to the United States Military Academy.
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In 1966, as an Army Special Forces commander of a fort of 300 Montagnards fighting the North Vietnamese, William Willoughby Jr. learned a valuable lesson beyond his boss's advice to just "don't get overrun."
It's also a subject that Willoughby has continued to represent since he retired, in helping Ohio youths get admitted to the Army's West Point Military Academy. Willoughby is a West Point grad and the son of an Army officer wounded during World War II, who saw the academy as an educational opportunity.
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On college campuses across the country, being a Division I athlete usually comes with a lot of glamor and a celebrity status. That's not the case at West Point Academy. Former Michigan Warriors goalie and North American Hockey League MVP Robert Tadazak has found that out first hand during his freshman season with the Army Black Knights.
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FORT KNOX, Ky. -- All Soldiers planning to separate from the Army are now required to begin their transition process at least a year before leaving, according to a Department of the Army execution order signed Dec. 29. The added emphasis on transition is partly due to a study undertaken by West Point about two years ago. The U.S. Military Academy Transition Study sent about two dozen scholars, NCOs and officers all over the Army to talk with transition counselors and Soldiers preparing to separate.
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