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Soldier to compete for ‘Best Sapper’

April 3, 2024 Editorial Staff

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Lexi West, a 2016 O’Neill High School graduate and 2021 U.S. Military Academy graduate, is slated to compete in the 17th Best Sapper Competition, to be held April 19 through 22 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Remembering Buffalo Soldiers

September 6, 2023 Mary Jane Pitt

Under three large tents on Sunday afternoon, several hundred people gathered at the base of the Buffalo Soldiers monument at West Point to pay tribute to soldiers who were instrumental in the US Army for decades.

Time capsule discovered at West Point

August 23, 2023 Editorial Staff

The U.S. Military Academy will open and unveil the contents of a nearly 200-year-old time capsule during a ceremony on Monday, Aug. 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Robinson Auditorium at Thayer Hall

Summer training to begin

May 18, 2022 Editorial Staff

Area residents can expect to hear summer training activities conducted on the military installation beginning now through August to include areas in and around Camp Buckner and Lake Frederick.

As the Long Gray Line expands…

May 19, 2021 Mary Jane Pitt

In the spring of 1958, Elliott G. Fishburne III, a native of Waynesboro, Va., was getting ready to go to college. He applied to Brown, Trinity, the University of Virginia and West Point.

West Point’s Amy Marson honored

February 26, 2020 Editorial Staff

WEST POINT — Following hundreds of nominations nationwide and a national vote yielding more than 23,000 votes, Amy Marson, the wife of Garrison Commander Col. Cecil Marson, has been named the 2020 Armed Forces Insurance West Point Spouse of the Year.

USMAPS cadet died Saturday

September 5, 2019 Editorial Staff

Cadet Candidate Benjamin K. Bochtler of the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School, died due to injuries sustained from an accident at a cliff diving location in Hunter on August 31.

New rules to enter West Point

July 21, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

If you live in Highland Falls or Fort Montgomery and don’t have a visitor’s pass — Local Access Credentials — to West Point, you might want to consider getting one soon.

Grand opening held at Long Pond

June 7, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

With three signatures, a ‘Community Commitment Pledge’ has been signed and the official summer season at Long Pond has begun.

USMA Class of ’19 was most diverse

May 30, 2019 Mary Jane Pitt

When the U.S. Military Academy graduated over 980 cadets in the Class of 2019 at its commencement last Saturday, it was a “season of firsts’ for the academy.