USMA Class of 1987

Please joining me in welcoming Lisa (Thompson) Angelson as an AOG Class Advisor. Lisa will serve a one-year term beginning 1 January 2007. She brings an passion and commitment to shaping the future of our alumni association and promoting the welfare of USMA.

As many of you know, Lisa is actively involved in our class playing key roles in both our 15th and 20th year reunion committees. In addition to significant civic volunteer activities, Lisa is a Group Manager at Target's Distribution Centers in New York and in the Army Reserve. Lisa and John are the parents of two teenagers!

Congratulations to all our classmates on the latest Colonel's List--

Many thanks to Ted Frederick for forwarding the list.  Ted indicated this was the primary look for '85 and BZ for '86, so  classmates on this  list were at  least a  one-time  below the zone!

Please accept my apologize for any oversights and names not included on this story.

I was reading some news before heading to work and what did is see but our own Keven Arata mentioned as the Army spokesman in an AP story about the Army's investigation into misreporting of seven soldiers deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15493153/

Currently on my third year in command and ninth month downrange in Iraq. As the battalion commander for Task Force 2-37 Armor, I command 1000 great Soldiers of all different MOS's: infantry, armor, engineer, and many other great enablers. We are forward deployed inside the embattled, but strategic city of Tal Afar, Iraq. Tal Afar made the news back in March 2006 when President Bush cited the town as a great example of how the clear-hold-build strategy could and should work in the counterinsurgency fight. COL HR McMaster '84 and 3rd ACR did a great job of the clear and hold piece and we are now building every single day. It feels good to create a project, get it funded, and then open up projects like public libraries, computer centers, schools, and police stations. For those of the fellow Dogs from plebe year company E-2, COL McMaster, remembers our class well and how squared away we all seemed. Maybe it was because it was also known as "Easy 2" that we were thus enabled so!