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Welcome West Point Parents! WPP-NET stands for "West Point Parents Net". This is the net used by our WP-ORG Advisors to pass "hard news" information to all parents who have an e-mail address in the west-point.org system. WPP-NET is a closed net and the only person who can post messages to this net is the wpp-net moderator. This net operates on a "push" system. We push the information out to you unsolicited as we learn of news from West Point. The WPP-NET website is intended to be the portal for all West Point parents (as your Internet browser home page if you wish), where you can find everything you need in one easy location. If you don't find something you need, be sure to let me know, and our Webmaster will include it if at all possible. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF PLEBE-NET, PARENT-FORUM, or WPP-GRAD, YOU NEED NOT SUBSCRIBE TO WPP-NETIf you have chosen not to be a part of one of those lists, you may subscribe to WPP-NET by clicking HERE Dian Welle
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The Class of 2013 is offering two pistols to commemorate our Firstie year. The first version is made of stainless steel with rosewood handles. The second version is a blued metal with a gold inlaid design and rosewood grips.
WP-ORG is pleased to host the ordering site for these class pistols and they represent the perfect keepsake for a graduating cadet, particularly one who will be entering the combat arms. Additional details are available on the Facebook site, including a POC telephone number for any questions you might have. Get one before they are sold out - this is a limited edition.
https://secure.west-point.org/usma-pistol/
https://www.facebook.com/WestPoint2013ClassPistol
Respectfully, Paul Werner CEO, WP-ORG |
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Training activities will be conducted during the summer months on the US Military Academy installation to include Camp Buckner, Lake Frederick and Camp Smith in the Town of Cortlandt beginning in early June and continuing through August. Area residents can expect to hear those training activities, which will include infantry operations, artillery firing, weapons training, aviation operations, military engineering projects, training in field communications, demolitions and survival skills techniques. Read More... |
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What Col. Ellen Haring is proposing would eventually change the way America mourns on Memorial Day. “And that’s painful, yeah,” she said, in between cutting green beans and heating up the grill for a Memorial Day barbecue at her Northern Virginia home. “But women are already dying,” she said. “The public may not realize it, but over 1,000 women have been killed or injured” in Iraq and Afghanistan. Haring, 50, is one of two Army Reserve officers who filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit last week against the Defense Department and the Army for barring women from certain combat units and other jobs solely on the basis of their gender. The suit amounts to a demand that women be given better odds at dying in combat, an interesting way to kick off the Memorial Day weekend. There are about 250,000 jobs in the U.S. military that remain closed to women. Haring encountered those locked doors as soon as she graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1984. Read More... |
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A recent West Point grad from Miami Shores reflects on service to the nation and the significance of Memorial Day Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, has become a carefree day to decompress, a time for picnics and beach outings and backyard barbeques. Or to take a road trip over the long holiday weekend. Few think of its deeper meaning, and if they do, they sometimes confuse it with Veterans Day, when we honor all those who have served the nation in uniform.At the United States Military Academy at West Point, the primary officer training source for the Army’s future officers, it is impossible to miss the meaning of Memorial Day: It is the day to honor those who served and didn’t make it home. Some of my West Point classmates, men and women no older than I, fall into this category. They have withstood the arduous training, gone off to deployments overseas and paid the ultimate price. Let me tell you about a couple of them. READ MORE
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2819404/a-west-point-grad-on-the-meaning.html#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy
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Vice-President Joe Biden marches into Michie Stadium for Army's Graduation and Commissioning ceremony at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY on Saturday, May 26, 2012. Vice-President Biden delivered the commencement address as 972 cadets received their diplomas and were commissioned as 2nd. Lieutenants in the U.S. Army. See Slide show Now... More Photos Here... More Photos Here... |
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Aug. 8, 2011 WEST POINT, N.Y. – Cadet Charles Phelps, son of Charles and Carrie Phelps of Woodinville, Wash., has been selected First Captain of the U.S. Military Academy's Corps of Cadets for the 2011-2012 academic year, which begins Aug. 14, achieving the highest position in the cadet chain of command. As First Captain, Phelps, a Military History major, is responsible for the overall performance of the approximately 4,400 member Corps of Cadets. He follows in the footsteps of other notable First Captains such as John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur and William Westmoreland. |
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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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