Elizabeth Betterbed, the Deputy Brigade Commander, asks Ross Perot a question during a lecture in Jefferson Hall on Thursday. Perot was on campus to receive the Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates. The Thayer Award, given annually since 1958 in honor of Col. Sylvanus Thayer, “Father of the Military Academy,” is presented [...]
Cadet Tom Beirne Class of 2009, (facing camera) earned the title of U.S. National Collegiate Champion at the U.S. Collegiate Nationals at Brown University, in Providence, R.I., March 21-22. (Photo by Cadet Sam Cho)
Beirne is from Federal Way, WA
A West Point grad, Rhodes scholar, and Army Ranger recounts his unparalleled education in the art of war and reckons with the hard wisdom that only battle itself can bestow.
est Point crowned eleven champions during the 53d Annual Brigade Boxing Open Championships. Tyler Elliot, USMA Class of 2012, earned the Most Outstanding Boxer award from the ESPNU announcers for his Technical Knockout in the 195 pound classification.
Tyler, as a plebe, who began boxing after taking the required course at West Point, was the [...]