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Military sisters pitch their unique jewelry

Wearing drab olive Army fatigues for a few years and graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point may not seem the best way to launch a career in women’s fashion design. But that’s the route taken by sisters and former East Amwell Township residents Ashley Jung and Paige Dellavalle, and it’s brought them success. On Friday, May 17, at 8 p.m., the former Hunterdon Central High School swimmers take another plunge: into ABC-TV’s Shark Tank to pitch to the investment sharks their line of fashion jewelry, stella valle. At West Point, the sisters majored in management and minored in systems engineering. A shoulder injury prevented Dellavalle from deploying to a combat zone. Jung served in Afghanistan for 15 months between March 2007 and June 2008.

How do you properly welcome the winningest D-1 college basketball coach when he stops by your neighborhood? You give him the Stryker treatment, of course. Duke University and U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski stopped by Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Thursday to chat with members of I Corps about, among other things, team-building.

Honoring efforts of a scholar and soldier

Nearly 50 years after leaving the University of Pennsylvania for Vietnam, Lt. Col. Mortimer Lenane O'Connor will receive a posthumous Ph.D. today in a ceremony honoring academic achievement and sacrifice on the field of battle. My father, who set aside his dissertation to lead soldiers in war, will be included in the Class of 1968, the year he would most likely have completed his doctorate had fate not intervened. Born in 1930, my dad grew up in the company of oldier-storytellers on Army garrisons from Manila to the Old West, and watched his own father and three uncles set off for war in Europe. The whiff of cordite and tales of valor turned him into an infantry officer with a taste for ballads and bravado. He walked off demerits at West Point while reciting Rudyard Kipling and told the story of Beowulf around the family campfire as a bare-knuckled brawl between an Airborne Ranger and a Nazi monster.

The Illinois Army National Guard is among the nation's leaders taking advantage of a U. S. Military Academy at West Point program that sets aside 85 appointments to the academy for enlisted Army National Guard or Army Reserve Soldiers. At least five Illinois National Guard Soldiers have secured seats at West Point, with a sixth Soldier, Pfc. Jacob Weiss of Sherman, receiving a Congressional appointment to the academy. This currently ties the Illinois Army National Guard with the Georgia Army National Guard for the most appointments to West Point this year, said Lt. Col. Mark Alessia, of Sherman, the Recruiting and Retention Commander for the Illinois Army National Guard.

Wayland native deployed to Afghanistan

On May 1, Lt. Steven Kinney deployed to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, where his unit will be stationed for the next nine months. A 2006 graduate of Wayland High School, Lt. Kinney attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating with honors in 2010. He selected Army Aviation as his branch and was stationed at Fort Rucker, Ala., where he completed flight school. After flight school, Lt. Kinney joined the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y. He pilots Apache Longbow helicopters, the Army’s primary attack aircraft. He is a platoon leader, responsible for 12 men.

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