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Category: Grads in the news
COL (R) Ralph Puckett Jr., USMA 1949, Receives Medal of Honor
May 21: President Biden presented the nation’s highest military honor to COL (R) Ralph Puckett Jr., USMA Class of 1949.
1LT Okheem Riley, USMA 2018, Body Recovered From Lake
The Riley County Police Department has identified Okheem Riley, 24, of Manhattan as the man who emergency responders found dead in Tuttle Creek Lake, which is near Manhattan in the Flint Hills of Northeast Kansas.
RCPD is investigating the death.
Officials said no foul play is suspected.
An Army trailblazer set her sights on a new target. The reaction highlights a deep rift.
Washington Post Article By Dan Lamothe
“Capt. Kristen Griest, who made history in 2015 as one of the first two women to graduate the Army’s famously difficult Ranger School, had avoided the media spotlight for years. But she decided to take a public stand when Army officials floated a plan to consider the test scores of men and women separately amid complaints about a gender gap. Women were disproportionately failing events requiring significant upper-body strength, causing an outcry among lawmakers.”
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Kristen Griest is from the USMA class of 2011
NJ Motor Vehicles chief heading to Pentagon
USMA1980 Brenda “Sue” Fulton
“Brenda “Sue” Fulton, a former Army officer who in 1980 was commissioned in the first U.S. Military Academy class to admit women, was nominated to serve in the top Pentagon post.”