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Allgor ’19 Wins 2024 WPAOG Army-Navy Button Design Contest
Buttons Will Be Distributed at WPAOG Army-Navy Tailgate in DC This year’s winner of the annual WPAOG Army-Navy Button Design Contest is Kim (Sembrano) Allgor, a 2019 West Point graduate. Her button design, which features the Washington, D.C. landscape, will be produced and handed out to all attendees during the WPAOG Army-Navy Tailgate at our…
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Duty, Honor, Country—All the Way!
“Stand up! Hook up! Shuffle to the door! Airborne!” Now imagine taking a long walk toward, not away from, a mine or IED and diffusing it without a bomb suit or robot, instead with what could be jumped in: rope, scissors, and explosives. Fire in the hole! Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) combined with Airborne—that’s courageous,…
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West Point Hosts 2024 Sandhurst International Military Skills Competition, USMA Cadets Win
Over the competition’s two days, the participants of Sandhurst came from 10 USMA company squads, USMA Black and Gold teams, 17 international teams representing 15 countries, 16 ROTC teams from across the nation and three other service academy teams.
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Class of 2019 5th Reunion
Welcome back to your Rockbound Highland Home for your class’s 5th reunion, a time to Grip Hands with classmates as you relive fond memories from your cadet days and forge new memories with one another. WPAOG, whose mission and vision are to help you maintain connections with the Academy and members of the Long Gray…
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Eyes Right: A West Point Story
Imagine a “good cadet.” Picture the cadet in crisp India whites, red sash cinched across the waist, ring securely affixed to the finger, with stars and wreaths and wings glistening on the chest. Imagine someone in a position of responsibility and effortlessly mixing with foreign dignitaries. Imagine the unrivaled “best of the best of the…
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Center for Junior Officers Announces 30 Under 30 Leader Developers
Ten West Point graduates and cadets have been selected as part of the Center for Junior Officers’ 30 Under 30 Leader Developers.
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A Conversation with CPT Stephen Gracza ’19: Giving with Gratitude Since Graduation
CPT Stephen Gracza ’19 is a recent inductee into the 1802 Circle, WPAOG’s annual giving society that recognizes donors for their consistent support of West Point.
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New WPAOG Family Shuttle Honors Fallen Cadet Surdyke
Families visiting West Point now have a new transportation option, thanks to a generous donation by Timothy (Tim) and Janice Surdyke through the Cadet Thomas Surdyke Memorial Foundation Endowment.
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The Class of 2019 Graduation
The 985 members of the Class of 2019 entered the Academy 47 months ago on June 29, 2015—or, as LTG Darryl Williams ’83, the 60th Superintendent of West Point, said to them on their graduation day, they entered “12 Marvel and three Star Wars movies ago, when the iPhone was still running on IOS-8 and…
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Branch Night for the Class of 2019
After four years of learning about the 17 branches of the U.S. Army through the various initiatives surrounding the Branch Education and Mentorship Program (e.g. Branch Week, military instruction courses, summer training, etc.), on that night, November 14, 2018, the firsties finally learned what their identity, beyond “cadet,” will be in the profession of arms…
