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WEST POINT, N.Y. – The West Point Model United Nations Team won the national championship at the Harvard National Model UN conference this past weekend in Boston. The win marks the fourth National Championships for West Point in the past six years. Competing against more than 3,000 students from around the world, representing 205 universities and 35 different countries, West Point cadets dominated nearly every committee as they represented the country of Niger. Of the 14 cadets competing, 11 brought home personal awards. The team will compete in the World Model UN conference in Taipei, Taiwan in March. True to the mission of the United Nations as declared in its 1945 charter, Harvard National Model United Nation serves as a forum in which students from colleges and universities around the world can meet to discuss the greatest challenges facing the world today, in fields ranging from international peace and security to economic and social progress and human rights. In this spirit, the goal of HNMUN is to begin a process whereby constructive debate today can lead to solutions tomorrow. |
By ROBERT MILLER / The Dallas Morning News
Dallas businessman Ross Perot will receive the U.S. Military Academy's prestigious Thayer Award in a ceremony Oct. 15 in West Point, N.Y. The award is given annually to a non-West Point graduate whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify the academy's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country." |
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
West Point, N.Y. ........ The class of 1976—who left West Point at a low point for both the Army and its famed training ground—has produced a striking number of generals now influencing the shape of the U.S. military. All told, at least 33 active and retired generals, now all in their mid-50s, were among its 855 graduating members. Gen. McChrystal’s deputy in Kabul, Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, was a classmate, as was the officer leading U.S. efforts to train the Iraqi army, Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick. Retired Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, who spent 19 months as the top commander in Afghanistan, was also West Point ’76. |
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(AP) – Jul 22, 2009 WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — West Point officials who ordered anti-war demonstrators out of an Army-Navy basketball game did not violate their First Amendment rights, a federal jury decided Wednesday. The jury found that the protesters' message — they wore T-shirts spelling out "U.S. out of Iraq" — was not the main reason for their expulsion. The eight protesters, admittedly looking for attention, stood in the top row of the bleachers to display their message as the national anthem was played before a game in 2004. Building manager John Spisso ordered them to cover up the shirts or leave, and when they refused, they were escorted out by military police, held for three hours and charged with disorderly conduct. |
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By BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press Writer Published 06/17/09 ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Applications have surged at the nation's three top military academies as tough economic times coincide with stepped-up recruiting efforts by the Army, Navy and Air Force schools, making the prospect of free college and a steady job look sweeter. |
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Random Quote:
The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country. General Douglas MacArthur
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