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Coach: Earl Henry “Red” Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989)
Dartmouth 1934-1940 – 45-15-4
Army: 1941-1958 – 121-33-10
Overall: 166-48-14
Awards:
All-American, 1919
AFCA Coach of the Year (1946)
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1964
articles provided by Russ “Skip” Grimm – Class of ’76
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May 21, 2003
Army vs Navy, 1956 – A look back at the 1956 Army-Navy game.
One of the most exciting Army-Navy games in history took place in 1956 and resulted in a 7-7 tie.
Army and Navy fought to a 7-7 deadlock today in their fifty-seventh football meeting. An overflow crowd of 102,000 at Municipal Stadium and a nationwide television audience saw the midshipmen score in the fourth period to match a third quarter tally by the cadets.
The stalemate left both sides feeling somewhat letdown. Favored Navy announced the receipt and refusal of a Cotton Bowl bid after the game. The invitation was rejected because Naval Academy officials did not feel that the team’s record of six victories, one defeat and two ties justified a post-season appearance.
Army’s disappointment came from its failure to reap a greater yield from a derisive statistical superiority. Eight fumbles, five of which were lost, proved ruinous to the cadets’ hopes of matching their 1956 triumph. The touchdowns each came an the follow-up of breaks forced by the hard
hitting defensive play that marked the bitterly fought contest. Bob Kyasky, the game’s most effective ball-carrier, slashed over Navy’s right tackle from four yards out for Army’s touchdown at 3:57 of the third quarter. Dave Bourland’s 5-yard pass interception run put the
ball in position for this thrust.
Follows Fumble Recovery
Dick Dagampat, who distinguished himself in many ways for Navy, rammed thru the middle of Army’s line from point blank range at 7:35 of the fourth period for the midshipman’s score. He went over on the seventh play following John Kanuch’s recovery of an Army fumble on the Army 27-yard line. Dick Murtland’s successful conversion place-kick for Army was matched by Ned Oldham of Navy.
Army, on the march through much of the game, out gained Navy from scrimmage, 237 yards to 132, and made twelve first downs to Navy’s five. The play figures, which show seventy-five plays for the cadets to fifty-one for the midshipmen, further reflect the offensive superiority of the Black Knights.
But all this good work was undone by Army’s repeated fumbling, a habit that has plagued the cadets on previous occasions this season. They bobbled away the ball on Navy’s 30 and their own 20 in the second period, and on their 39 and 27 and Navy’s 27 in the fourth quarter.
In addition, recovered fumbles interrupted the continuity of several promising Army marches. The cadets also were held for downs on Navy’s 20 in the first period and were brought up short by a pass interception after reaching Navy’s 27 in the third period.
Navy, known as a ball-control team, was so stymied by Army’s defense that it crossed midfield only once under its own momentum, that penetration occurring on a long punt return late in the second quarter. However, in moving to their tying touchdown, the midshipmen made one of the most impressive marches of the contest. They actually covered 32 yards, rather than 27, having been set back five yards on a backfield in motion penalty on a play that produced an apparent touchdown from the 2-yard line.
The huge crowd, which gathered early in order to witness the colorful pre-game parades of the corps of cadets and the brigade of midshipmen, had anticipated a more open game.
However, it was soon established that this was to be a grim, bitter offensive duel in which breaks probably would prove decisive-as they did. Army hammered away effectively at the tackles from its T-formation inside drive series, and with quick straight ahead thrusts by Kyasky, from fullback and Murtland and Mike Morales, from the halfbacks.
Spikes Army’s Guns
But the cadets were unable to produce many of their hoped-for long gainers against Navy’s rugged line and the alert midshipmen secondaries spiked Army’s guns when it attempted to go overhead. Many tried to spread Army’s defense by using varying flanker alignments but could make no consistent progress on the ground or in the air. Only once besides on its scoring march were the midshipmen able to put together two first downs. They made only one first down in the first
half. The temperature was 36 degrees and leaden skies, later to lighten, and a capricious wind compounded the seeping chill as the game started. Army won the toss and elected to receive. Morales bobbled Bob Reifsnyder’s deep kick-off into the end zone but recovered and brought the ball
out to the 10.
With Kyasky, Murtland and Morales alternating on drive series plays, the Cadets clicked off two first downs. But as they approached midfield, a pass missed connections and they had to kick.
Kyasky Breaks Loose
Navy could make no progress and Army soon had the ball again on its 40. Kyasky and Murtland drove to a first down on Navy’s 48 but the midshipmen dug in on their 41 and forced Army to kick again. Once more, Army pinned Navy deep in its territory and regained possession on its 43. It appeared that Navy had the cadets stopped at midfield but with three yards to go on fourth down, Kyasky broke loose for 22 yards to Navy’s 28 on a fake kick sweep around his left end.
Three thrusts at the line by Murtland, Kyasky and Bourland picked up eight yards but Navy’s line smothered Kyasky on fourth down and the midshipmen took the ball on their 26. Chet Burchett broke away around left end for fifteen yards to give Navy its first substantial gain but the midshipmen were obliged to punt after reaching their 43.
Army again moved the ball. From their own 32, the cadets clicked off three first downs. A pass by Bourland to Art Johnson with whom he a also had connected earlier on the march, put Army on
Navy’s 35. But after Kyasky had gained two yards, Murtland fumbled under the jarring impact of a tackle and Tony Anthony pounced on the ball for Navy on the 30.
Forced to Kick Again
There was an exchange of punts, then Navy had to kick again, from its 38. Earle Smith, Navy’s captain and right end, who played much of the contest with a broken bone in his right hand, got off a long boot. Kyasky elected to let it roll, but Johnson dropped back from end to block, took a swipe at the ball and touched it. The omnipresent Dagampat recovered for Navy to set the midshipmen up on Army’s 20.
ARMY (7)
Left Ends -Johnson, Warner. Left Tackles- Reid, Wilmoth. Left Guards
-Fadel, Bishop. Centers -Kernan, Svetecz. Right Guards -Slater, Rowe.
Right Tackles -Goodwin, Melnlk. Right Ends -Stephenson, Saunders.
Quarterbacks -Bourland, Darby. Left Halbacks -Murtland, Roesler, Kennedy. Right
Halfbacks -Morales, Cygler. Fullbacks -Kyasky, Barta.
NAVY (7)
Left Ends -Jokanovich, Kamuch. Left Tackles -Anthony, Meisel. Left
Guards -Stremic, Caldwell. Centers -Whitmire, McElwee. Right Guards -Hower,
Fritzinger. Right Tackes -Relfsnyder, Martinez. Right Ends -Smith,
Ruth. Quarterbacks -Forrestal, Flood. Left Halfbacks -Oldham, Hurst. Right
Halfbcks -Burchett, Swanson.Fullbacks -Dagampat, Monto.
ARMY 0 0 7 0-7
Navy 0 0 0 7-7
Army scoring – Touchdown: Kyasky (4, run)
Conversion: Murtland.
Navy scoring – Touchdown: Dagampat (1-foot plunge)
Conversion:Oldham
Referee- Albert J Booth Jr. Yale.
Umpire- Leonard Dobbins Fordham
Linesman J. Walter Coffee Rutgers
Field Judge- Howard C. Fyth Carnegie Tech
Electric Clock Operator -Robert E. Owings Johns Hopkins
All American halfback 33/34 – aka Texas Jack Buckler – “Waco Jack” – “Buckler The Sharpshooter” and the “Texas Jack Rabbit” ArmyFB_1934_JackBuckler-All-East_ReadingEagle_Nov281934
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Milwaukee Journal – Oct 25, 1931 – One of the tragedies of football took place In the fourth period, when Richard Sheridan of Augusta, the light end of the Army, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured on the kick-off …
… Saturday offer a description of the play which may cost the life of Cadet Richard Sheridan, accounts of which from other sources have been most meagre. …
Mai Stevens and Cap tain Booth were attending the funeral services of Cadet Richard Sheridan at West Point today, tho Yale varsity were directed in a secret …
Southeast Missourian – Oct 28, 1931 -The Army team will carry on. Rests With Heroes. Today, with all the panoply grief that accompanies the burial of the army’s heroes, Cadet Sheridan
09/24 Army 47 – Davidson 1
10/01 Army 42 – Penn State 7
10/08 Army 21 – Michigan 7
10/15 Army 54 – Harvard 14
10/22 Army 63 – Columbia 6
10/29 Army 40 – Virginia Military Institute 14
11/05 Army 35 – Fordham 0 Bronx, NY
11/12 Army 14 – Pennsylvania 13
11/26 Army 38 – Navy 0 W Philadelphia, PA
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“The histories of both teams intersect with coaching legend Vince Lombardi (FCRH ’37), a member of the Seven Blocks of Granite during the 1936 season.
Lombardi was an assistant coach at Rose Hill in 1947 and 1948 before taking an assistant coaching position at West Point in 1949. His jump from Fordham to Army may explain the tenor of the game played between the two teams that year.
Though both sides entered the contest unbeaten, Army picked off two Maroon passes before halftime, which ultimately sealed Fordham’s fate. But the Rams gave as good as they got on the field. In fact, the game was so hard-fought that sportswriters dubbed it the “Donnybrook on the Hudson.”
Look magazine reported: “The Cadets and the Rams went to work on each other with everything short of stilettos and strangling cords.”
In When Pride Still Mattered, David Maraniss’ biography of Lombardi, Fordham football player Herb Seidell recalled the battle:
“I was told that 17 teeth came out of nine different mouths. I lost one. I got my whole face pranged when I was blindsided coming off the field after a punt. That was the kind of game it was.”
09/25 Army 28 – Villanova 0
10/02 Army 54 – Lafayette 7
10/09 Army 26 – Illinois 12
10/16 Army 20 – Harvard 7
10/23 Army 27 – Cornell 6 New York, NY
10/30 Army 49 – Virginia Tech 7
11/06 Army 43 – Stanford 0 Bronx, NY
11/13 Army 26 – Pennsylvania 20
11/27 Army 21 – Navy 21 T Philadelphia, PA
Coach: Earl Henry “Red” Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989)
Dartmouth 1934-1940 – 45-15-4
Army: 1941-1958 – 121-33-10
Overall: 166-48-14
Awards:
All-American, 1919
AFCA Coach of the Year (1946)
College Football Hall of Fame, Inducted in 1964
1901
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD; The Season Ends with the Games This Week. CELEBRATION AT HARVARD Interest in West Point-Annapolis Contest — Columbia in Fair Shape to Play Indians.
With the end of this week the football season of 1901 will be a thing of the past. Among the colleges the championship has already been decided, and Harvard has carried off the palm. The army and navy have yet to settle their dispute, and their game on Saturday winds up the season. Two annual contests of more than ordinary importance also occurr this week.
2009 TeamThe football “team” links in the matrix below, each containing assembled information, such as images, old news articles, stories, etc., should now be up to date on this site. One can also find a given team (e.g “1890 Team”), using the search feature on the left sidebar.
Women Rangers – it should have been done years ago
Three West Point Women Graduates are in the Mountain Phase. As the Ft Benning Phase tests brute strength, the Mountain and Florida Phases test physical agility, there is a very good possibility that the Army will welcome three Women Officers wearing Ranger Tabs. “We will fight an Army on a dare – we’ll follow Darby anywhere”
The key is the last sentence – Similar to the current process, earning a Ranger tab will not automatically move a soldier into the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Army’s special operations unit.
The U.S. Army’s top officer said he expects between 70 and 80 women to apply to become the first-ever female students at Ranger School.
Posted by members of the Class of ’62.
Note If you have a comment to add, supporting or against assignment of women to front line combat units – please submit it.
The primary reason for adding these comments is to insure Graduating Female Cadets understand the issues and potential cost of selection of a “front line” combat arms branch. Years ago the Academy Officials went before Congress to insure the wording in the proposed 1975 bill would allow adjustment of the physical standards for female Cadets. If consideration had not been allowed and women Cadets were required to meet the standards men were expected to maintain – then many potentially very competent future Army Officers would have washed out. There can be no adjustment to physical standards to allow women to enter front line units, nor would one hope female soldiers would never seek such an adjustment. Yet the Marine Corps has established separate standards – see AP Report bottom of page. Failure for any reason may not be Career ending but will be Career limiting. Washing out or even a decision to reconsider is not the best for a Career.
The reason no women have attended Ranger training is unknown. Unless every graduate of Ranger Training is required to enter Special Ops, there would seem to be no reason to prevent the training of women. It would seem to be a logical requirement before considering any further transition toward the front lines. Unless Ranger Training has significantly changed, without question there are Young Graduates who could easily complete the coarse.
Female marines can’t do three pullups, shows some military tasks are for men Washington Times Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, and a member of the 1992 Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, says standing down was the right thing to do. “The Marines made the right decision in suspending the mandatory three pullup requirement for female trainees,” she said. “This issue is bigger than boot camp. If it is too much to require female recruits to do three pullups, it is a thousand times worse to expect women to serve in direct ground combat units such as the infantry, armor, artillery and Special Operations Forces.” Mrs. Donnelly wants Congress to eliminate the Obama administration’s social experimentation with the military by writing into law the traditional exemption that keeps women off the field of battle. In the meantime, female Marines being tested will return to a less-demanding “flexed-arm hang,” which requires them only to hold their chins above the bar. (see below of comment –
The Services are evaluating Women serving in front line units. The decision forcing the Service Chiefs to determine what units will include women was made by a departing SecDef. Not a single elected official was involved. Not a single vote was cast.)Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/9/editorial-the-making-of-a-marine/#ixzz2qTRz8enWCadet Breaks 20-year IOCT Record ( Female Record )The Indoor Obstacle Course Test (IOCT) has challenged cadets for more than 60 years at West Point. No female cadet has ever completed the IOCT faster than Class of 2017 Cadet Madeline. Note – Maddie (sp) is a tall Cadet and as such is able to jump much higher on the rope than we from South Area who set the standard for the Corps years ago.American Friends of LIBI – – These IDF female tank instructors bear a huge responsibility. They give training to tank soldiers in the Armored Corps., who lead the first line of attacking forces in case of ground war. Their operational instructions must be accurate and meticulously communicated. We’re proud of their role in the IDF! – with Etti Attia.Nightwitches -Russian bombers who bombed Germany during WW2. They had old, noisy planes & the engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the props. To stop Germans from hearing them & starting up the anti aircraft guns, theyd climb to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair & get the hell out of dodge. Their leader flew 200+ missions & was never captured.
On on July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 ordering integration of the Armed Forces. It was not easy but the Armed Forces complied. Public Law 94-106 signed by President Gerald Ford on Oct. 7, 1975 had passed the House by a vote of 303 to 96 and the Senate by voice vote after divisive argument within Congress. When Omar Bradley was asked by a member of the Class of 1962 what his views were on the Law requiring women in the Corps of Cadets, the General said “Congress passed it, the President signed it, I support it”. Those words were the words every serving officer should have embraced. There is humor when one sees the photo in the 1979 Howitzer showing one Cadet Company displaying a verity of sports equipment – baseballs, footballs, volley balls, soccer balls, tennis balls, some 20 or so different ones while proclaiming the Class of 1979 as the last all male Class. It took ruthless enforcement to bring the genders together into a cohesive Cadet Corps, and again it was a member of the Class of 1962 who was steadfast in that enforcement.
The Services are evaluating Women serving in front line units. The decision forcing the Service Chiefs to determine what units will include women was made by a departing SecDef. Not a single elected official was involved. Not a single vote was cast.
President Kennedy spoke to us at Graduation. The second to last paragraph – “Eighteen years ago today, Ernie Pyle, describing those tens of thousands of young men who crossed the “ageless and indifferent” sea of the English Channel, searched in vain for a word to describe what they were fighting for. And finally he concluded that they were at least fighting for each other.” Is that where our leaders in the Pentagon stand? In rereading of the horrors, inhumanity, and brutality by both German and Soviet front line soldiers during the battle for Stalingrad, one wonders why those armies did not employ women in the front line. Certainly both countries were fighting for survival. Although not at Stalingrad, the Soviets did employ female snipers because of their proven ability to properly control breathing. Only the Russian and Yugoslavian Partisans employed women in a front line capacity during World War II. With the dwindling manpower pool, why did not the Germans create female SS units? Germany was full of rabid female Hitler worshipers. With the ravages inflicted upon Soviet peasants by the Germans, one would think many female peasants would have wanted to join Soviet units. We might consider we fought for survival during our Revolution. Folklore has it that Molly Pitcher stood at her husband’s gun when he went down; yet that is still not advancing with fixed bayonet. Certainly native Americans fought for survival, but they did not put their women in the front line.
This is what they might face – Korea World War II Vietnam War on Terror
In the middle of the night, two marines stood on the high ground, one loading 8 round clips, the other doing the shooting as an M-1 was handed to him. Up and down the road similar examples of Marine Lore was established. When the last bugle sounded and the last was dead on the wire, the loader looked at the shooter and said “You don’t have your boots on”. It was 40 below, wind blowing. (One near breakthrough collapsed under the BAR and rifle fire of Pvt. Hector A. Cafferata and Pfc. Kenneth R. Benson, a pair of young men from New Jersey who had enlisted together. As Cafferata blazed away, his blinded partner, Benson, loaded weapons. Caught with his wet boots off, Cafferata fought five hours crippled by frostbite. Before the battle ended, he’d lost one arm to a grenade and the use of his other arm to a bullet. Taken from “The Last Stand of Fox Company) These two wore the patch of the 1st Marine, a 1 arched by Guadalcanal where Marines with their uniforms rotting off, surviving on captured Japanese rice, with diseased ridden bodies, gave America our 1st Victory. A machine gunner who was at Guadalcanal, like a few others, developed an inability to wake up in the middle of the night to relieve himself (nocturnal enuresis – stress). The doctors told him there was no cure as long as he was on the front line, it was just another complication of combat and he was sent back into the line. Carrying a Thompson as he fought his way north, finally worn out on Saipan and sent home to recover.
In the Bulge a paratrooper went to relieve himself, when his buddy “Yelled get back in here” (meaning do it in our foxhole) he went ahead, dropped his trou and was immediately shot at by a German sniper. Hitching his pants up without cleaning himself he jumped back into their foxhole. The smell did not bother any other members of his Rifle Company, as they all smelled the same. Some who were never able to get their trousers down in time, did smell worst than the others.
Ranger Class December ’62 – February ’63. Normal rain in North Georgia Mountains, crossed a river, then the winds and freezing temperatures hit – 40 some cases of frost bite.
As the main body, 6,900 of the Japanese 51st Division steamed toward Lea, Lieutenant General Kenny ordered in waves of bombers sinking all 8 transports and 4 of 8 destroyers leaving men in life boats, on make shift rafts and swimmers in the water who began to head toward shore. General Kenny ordered the air crews to strafe the defenseless men. The air crews did not meet the eyes of the dying soldiers and sailors, but the crew of PT Boat 121 made repeated sweeps through the mass of men, killing with rifle fire individuals, machine gunning and dropping depth charges among larger groups of Japanese were forced to look them in the eye. General Kenny was correct, but far from Politically Correct in his order, as Japanese survivors would have picked up weapons on shore. Today such orders and subsequent action would result in Court Martial, yet one wonders, would the young women training with todays version of the Navy’s PT Boat been able to respond as the men of PT 120 responded? Lieutenant (j.g.) Edward T Hamilton U.S.N.R. after completion of the task “As long as we saw a Jap alive, we kept up our relentless hunt. Not until the job was done, did we turn for home, while behind us those black dots still bobbed through the waves – but now they were corpses floated still by unpunctured life belts, carrying them toward the shore they had set out to conquer. We were a sad lot coming home. We hardly dared look one another in the eye or speak. We felt more like executioners than fighters.” It had to be done.
Can even the most ruthless of today’s young female warriors approach such brutality. August 18, 1976 North Korean soldiers (probably preplanned by the N Korean Government) wielding axes, hacked to death Captain Bonifas and 1Lt Mark Barrett during a required tree trimming in the Joint Security Area, Panmunjom. America’s Politically Correct response several days later was a show of force to backup trimming the tree. Kim Jong-il in addressing the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations asked that a resolution condemning the grave US provocation, demanding withdraw of American forces from Korea and dissolution of the UN Command. It passed.
Black Hawk Down, now some 20 years ago may be a more reasonable example for women to consider. When Administrations changed, the mission changed from humanitarian assistance to regime change. There was then an immediate request for a small American mechanized force which was denied by Sec Def. When a chopper went down while supporting ground troops, 2 snipers dropped in to protect the pilot. The two were ultimately killed, their naked dead bodies dragged through the streets to the joy of the cheering mob. The pilot was captured, exchanged, the US left, SecDef resigned and Somalia remains as it was before our humanitarian entry.
Knowing we cut and ran in Somalia did the Politically Correct, Politically Appointed Bureaucrat consider what some future President would face when the body of an American female was dragged through the streets to the cheers of the mob. Did he consider what some future President would face when a captured female soldier was paraded through the streets with several ropes around her neck – perhaps her sniper rifle over her shoulder.
As mentioned women are better snipers than the average male as their ability to control breathing is superior. Should female soldiers train with real life like targets – a known terrorist face as the target. Perhaps a known women terrorist holding a baby. Let them look into the eyes of a known foe.
In the MATA Coarse at Bragg in the mid 60’s Vietnamese instructors told of interrogation techniques used on the enemy. One was to take several prisoners up, tell them what you were going to do and if the first one refused to talk, he was tossed out. Normally the others talked. There was a very repulsive technique used to interrogate women prisoners. It will not be listed, but if you must know, send an email to ArmyAthletes@aol.com and an answer will be provided on an individual basis.
VA report of injuries from 80 pound loads carried by today’s male soldiers A signature injury of America’s latest wars has been musculoskeletal, cases of which exceed the number of wounds from firefights and improvised explosive devices. One study found that between 2004 and 2007, about a third of medical evacuations from the Iraq and Afghan theaters were due to musculoskeletal, connective tissue and spinal injuries. There is no data for Women as yet. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/04/10/heavy-loads-could-burden-womens-infantry-role.html?ESRC=army-a.nl
Rifle Company Command Vietnam –Two to four weeks in Jungle was very routine – no showers or enough water for good hygiene –when rains came, put security out and strip naked and use rain as shower, then re-dress with wet jungle fatigues and walk them dry –carry 3 days of C-rations (cans could be heavy) – hot meal every 2 to 4 days –double basic load of M-16 ammo (240 rounds – twelve 20 round mags) –two hand grenades per man; claymore – one per man; help machine gunner with ammo cans –sometimes (very seldom) help mortar platoon hump 81mm mortars and ammo for short relocation – mostly this was done by help –two water canteens per man (we got helo resupply most, but not all, days) –steel pot –shovel – every second man –bayonet –many times we moved all day and stopped at night and dug hasty defensive positions –most carried ponchos and liners (we never pitched tents) –some carried air mattresses –carried one or two extra pair of socks – no extra jungle fatigues –we would change fatigues and shower when we returned to base camp – we spent an average of 1 1/2 days per month in our base camp –even during Christmas cease fire we were pulled out at 2 AM Christmas day to rescue an SF camp near the Cambodian border that was in trouble –of course the radios were heavy – and still the radio man had to carry most of the same gear as everyone else –pee on the move –poop at night or in the AM – no privacy for this, just dig a 6″ hole and squat away –during combat helo assaults (we did many) carry everything with you because you never knew if or when you would return to your previous location –on occasion set up defensive positions – a series of two man foxholes with overhead cover and connecting trenches – stay there 7 to 10 days and patrol from there – we did this on road clearing exercises or near Cambodian border to interdict infiltration routes.
Other units, other situations – In 1st Cav – went light with the expectation of resupply and hot meal every day, bath in bomb crater or stream, moved every day.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — West Point wants more women. Associated Press | Apr 28, 2014 | by Michael Hill With female cadets representing less than one in five cadets in the Long Gray Line, the U.S. Military Academy is taking steps to boost the number of women arriving here this summer and beyond. West Point’s new superintendent said the moves — which include more outreach and the cultivation of competitive candidates — will help keep the storied academy ahead of the curve now that the Pentagon is lifting restrictions for women in combat jobs. “We obviously have to increase the female population for a number of reasons. One is because there are more opportunities in the branches for the females,” Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr. said. Women have been a presence at the nation’s military academies since 1976. Female cadets here can grow their hair longer than the standard military buzz-cut and can wear stud earrings. But they carry the same heavy packs, march the same miles and graduate with the same second lieutenant bars the men here do. “I carry the heavy weapons whenever we do field training exercises,” said Cadet Austen Boroff, a woman who refuses to be out-soldiered by her male peers. “I’ll take the machine guns, so I’m taking more weight.” And cadets like Boroff remain in the minority, just as they do in the broader military.
The Air Force and Naval academies say their student bodies are about 22 percent female. West Point is at 16 percent, mirroring the gender breakdown in the larger Army. Caslen, who became superintendent last year, said an increased number of female cadets will do more than serve the Army when thousands of combat positions are slated to open to both sexes by 2016. It will also help integrate women at the academy, he said.
West Point, like the military in general, has taken additional steps to combat sexual harassment and assaults. In one high-profile case, an Army sergeant accused of secretly photographing and videotaping women at West Point pleaded guilty last month in a court-martial. “My objective is to create the climate, the command climate here at West Point, that not only eliminates harassment and assault, but that will also create the teams and create the climate so that every single person feels that they’re a member of the team,” Caslen said.
West Point has taken a series of subtle steps to increase the percentage of women coming here without lowering admission standards. The academy has created new recruitment mailings written for girls in their freshman, sophomore and junior years of high school that note female West Point graduates have gone on to become generals, astronauts, executives and government leaders. The letter asks: “Do you have what it takes to follow in their footsteps?” The mailings will not bear fruit for this year’s incoming class, but director of admissions Col. Deborah McDonald said there has been an increase in the number of female nominees. And the academy has begun targeting top-tier female candidates and guiding them through the demanding application process. They already do that for standout scholars, soldiers, athletes and minorities.
West Point women’s lacrosse team is moving up to Division I in 2015, which also is expected to draw more interest from top female athletes who now choose other schools. Caslen said there’s no long-term goal yet for a percentage of female cadets. Also, final numbers on the incoming Class of 2018 won’t be known until the new group arrives for cadet basic training July 2d.
But West Point, as of this week, has admitted 229 female applicants and as many as 36 other females from the academy’s prep school will be considered. “I have no concerns at all that we won’t actually move right beyond the 20 percent mark,” McDonald said. “It might even be as high as 22 percent.” The class coming to West Point this summer will be in the second graduating class in which all branches will be open to women. But female West Point graduates this year can already choose among every Army branch except the infantry and armor.
Boroff, for instance, will go into field artillery. Despite some headline-making cases, Boroff and other cadets said they feel secure at West Point. Cadet Sarah Melville of Beacon Falls, Conn., said she is treated no differently than any male cadet and is rarely reminded of her gender. “Perhaps occasionally, halfway through the school year, you go, ‘Oh, I’m the only girl in this class. OK, cool,'” Melville said. “It means nothing.”
Shok Valley Afghanistan – Special Forces Teams were forced by higher to make an assault up a steep mountain rather than dropping in, on or above the objective, were trapped on the mountain side receiving fire from both above and across the valley, used KIA to provide a protective barrier, one his lower leg destroyed, wrapped it back and secured it to his thigh (out of the way), called in bunker buster bomb just above themselves, then were finally evacuated with higher claiming victory as Viscount Montgomery claimed victory (90% success) in the failed Market Garden Operation. As Prince Dutch Prince Bernard said “My country can never again afford the luxury of a Montgomery victory.” The plan by higher was initiated to prove how well training of Afgan Special Opns Teams had progressed. Naturally the guy who required the operation be conducted as stated – received his star. There is an unknown element – if one considers a Mother Bear with her cub, one might just want a raging Bear in the foxhole with him.
New York Times
Anyone advising women Cadets to compete for front line assignment should review and discuss the below book with the young Officer to be.Vietnam The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press (Hardcover)
AP Report
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs. The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016.
Although no new timetable has been set on the delayed physical requirement, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos wants training officials to “continue to gather data and ensure that female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed,” Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman, said Thursday. Starting with the new year, all female Marines were supposed to be able to do at least three pullups on their annual physical fitness test and eight for a perfect score. The requirement was tested in 2013 on female recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., but only 45 percent of women met the minimum”, Krebs said.
The Marines had hoped to institute the pullups on the belief that pullups require the muscular strength necessary to perform common military tasks such as scaling a wall, climbing up a rope or lifting and carrying heavy munitions. Officials felt there wasn’t a medical risk to putting the new standard into effect as planned across the service, but that the risk of losing recruits and hurting retention of women already in the service was unacceptably high, she said. Because the change is being put off, women will be able to choose which test of upper-body strength they will be graded on in their annual physical fitness test. Their choices: —Pullups, with three the minimum. Three is also the minimum for male Marines, but they need 20 for a perfect rating. —A flexed-arm hang. The minimum is for 15 seconds; women get a perfect score if they last for 70 seconds. Men don’t do the hang in their test.
Officials said training for pullups can change a person’s strength, while training for the flex-arm hang does little to adapt muscular strength needed for military tasks
The delay on the standard could be another wrinkle in the plan to begin allowing women to serve in jobs previously closed to them such as infantry, armor and artillery units. The military services are working to figure out how to move women into newly opened jobs and have been devising updated physical standards, training, education and other programs for thousands of jobs they must open Jan. 1, 2016, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman. They must open as many jobs to women as possible; if they decide to keep some closed, they must explain why.
Military brass has said repeatedly that physical standards won’t be lowered to accommodate female applicants. Success for women in training for the upcoming openings has come in fits and starts. In fall 2012, only two female Marines volunteered for the 13-week infantry officers training course at Quantico, Va., and both failed to complete it. But the following fall, three Marines became the first women to graduate from the Corps’ enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina. They completed the same test standards as the men in the course, which included a 12-mile march with an 80-pound pack and various combat fitness trials such as timed ammunition container lifts and tests that simulate running under combat fire.
Officials had added specific training for female recruits when the pullup requirement was announced in December 2012, and they came up with a workout program for women already serving. Military testing for physical skill and stamina has changed over the decades with needs of the armed forces. Officials say the first recorded history of Marine Corps physical fitness tests, for example, was 1908 when President Theodore Roosevelt ordered that staff officers must ride horseback 90 miles and line officers walk 50 miles over a three-day period to pass. A test started in 1956 included chinups, pushups, broad jump, 50-yard duck waddle and running. The first test for women was started in 1969: A 120-yard shuttle run, vertical jump, knee pushups, 600-yard run/walk and situps.
Four more women drop out of Marine Infantry Officer Course
By Hope Hodge Seck Staff Writer Marine TimesFour more female Marine officers have dropped out on the first day of the Infantry Officer Course at Quantico, Va., bringing the number of women who have attempted and failed to complete the course to 14. A requirement for Marine infantry officers, the grueling 13-week course has been open to women since September 2012, in keeping with a servicewide review of restrictions on women serving in combat arms fields. But to date, no women have graduated the course and only one has made it past the initial Combat Endurance Test that kicks off the course. That woman was injured, however, and did not continue on with the course. Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Maureen Krebs said the latest iteration of IOC held its initial Combat Endurance Test on Jan. 9. Of the 104 students who began the course, one was medically dropped and 28, including the four female volunteers, were unable to meet the requirements of the CET. The Marine Corps continues to send female officers to the course on a volunteer basis, with plans to use data from IOC to make an informed recommendation in 2016 as to whether the Marine infantry and reconnaissance fields should be open to women.
While IOC, which has a 20- to 25-percent drop-out rate among male participants, has stymied women so far, female Marines have had more success with the less-challenging Infantry Training Battalion at Camp Geiger, N.C., which trains enlisted Marines for infantry fields. So far, 13 female Marines have completed the course in two evolutions of training. Another company in ITB with six female volunteers was set to graduate in early January, but Marine officials did not immediately have data available about that graduation. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/02/25/report-says-few-army-women-want-combat-jobs.html?ESRC=army-a.nl
Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, B.J. ’77, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command – Commencement Address — University of Texas at Austin 2014
Some times the Navy has something to say
ADMIRAL NIMITZ
The Author of Pacific Glory met with Fleet Admiral Nimitz years after the Admiral retired. One question he asked the Admiral was how were the Japanese battleships and cruisers allowed to penetrate into MacArthur’s Naval Force supporting the Philippine landings. Nimitz paused for a moment then said it was his fault. You must be familiar with the Japanese plan and our response, along with past Pacific Naval decisions to appreciate Admiral Nimitz’s statement. In this editor’s mind, in that response many years after the engagement, Admiral Nimitz stands with Bradly and Marshall as a truly great leader.
Tour boats ferry
people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes.
We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes.. I went into a
small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book
entitled, “Reflections on Pearl Harbor ” by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December
7th, 1941–Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington
D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he
answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the
phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the
Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Admiral Nimitz flew
to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl
Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair,
dejection and defeat– you would have thought the Japanese had already won the
war. On Christmas Day, 1941, Adm. Nimitz was given a boat tour of
the destruction wrought on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.. Big sunken
battleships and navy vessels cluttered the waters everywhere you looked.
As the tour boat
returned to dock, the young helmsman of the boat asked, “Well Admiral, what do
you think after seeing all this destruction?” Admiral Nimitz’s reply shocked
everyone within the sound of his voice.
Admiral Nimitz said,
“The Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could ever
make, or God was taking care of America. Which do you think it was?”
Shocked and
surprised, the young helmsman asked, “What do mean by saying the Japanese made
the three biggest mistakes an attack force ever made?” Nimitz explained:
Mistake number one :
the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen
of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured
to sea and been sunk–we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800.
Mistake number two :
when the Japanese saw all those battleships lined in a row, they got so
carried away sinking those battleships, they never once bombed our dry docks
opposite those ships. If they had destroyed our dry docks, we would have
had to tow every one of those ships to America to be repaired. As it is
now, the ships are in shallow water and can be raised. One tug can pull
them over to the dry docks, and we can have them repaired and at sea by the
time we could have towed them to America. And I already have crews
ashore anxious to man those ships.
Mistake number three
: every drop of fuel in the Pacific theater of war is in top of the
ground storage tanks five miles away over that hill. One attack plane
could have strafed those tanks and destroyed our fuel supply. That’s why
I say the Japanese made three of the biggest mistakes an attack force could
make or God was taking care of America.
I’ve never forgotten
what I read in that little book. It is still an inspiration as I reflect
upon it.
In jest, I might
suggest that because Admiral Nimitz was a Texan, born and raised in
Fredricksburg, Texas –he was a born optimist. But any way you look at
it–Admiral Nimitz was able to see a silver lining in a situation and
circumstance where everyone else saw only despair and defeatism.
President Roosevelt
had chosen the right man for the right job. We desperately needed a
leader that could see silver linings in the midst of the clouds of dejection,
despair and defeat .
Never Liked the Movie – this is a good story
THE BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI:
The Real Story by CAPT Paul N. Gray, USN, Ret,
USNA ’41, former CO of VF-54.
Recently, some friends saw the movie “The Bridges at Toko-ri” on late night TV. After seeing it, they said, “You planned and led the raid. Why don’t you tell us what really happened?” Here goes.
I hope Mr. Michener will forgive the actual version of the raid. His fictionalized account certainly makes more exciting reading.
On 12 December 1951 when the raid took place, Air Group 5 was attached to Essex, the flag ship for Task Force 77. We were flying daily strikes against the North Koreans and Chinese. God! It was cold. The main job was to interdict the flow of supplies coming south from Russia and China. The rules of engagement imposed by political forces in Washington would not allow us to bomb the bridges across the Yalu River where the supplies could easily have been stopped. We had to wait until they were dispersed and hidden in North Korea and then try to stop them.
The Air Group consisted of two jet fighter squadrons flying Banshees and Grumman Panthers plus two prop attack squadrons flying Corsairs and Skyraiders. To provide a base for the squadrons, Essex was stationed 100 miles off the East Coast of Korea during that bitter Winter of 1951 and 1952.
I was CO of VF-54, the Skyraider squadron. VF-54 started with 24 pilots. Seven were killed during the cruise. The reason 30 percent of our pilots were shot down and lost was due to our mission. The targets were usually heavily defended railroad bridges. In addition, we were frequently called in to make low-level runs with rockets and napalm to provide close support for the troops.
Due to the nature of the targets assigned, the attack squadrons seldom flew above 2000 or 3000 feet; and it was a rare flight when a plane did not come back without some damage from AA or ground fire.
The single-engine plane we flew could carry the same bomb load that a B-17 carried in WWII; and after flying the 100 miles from the carrier, we could stay on station for 4 hours and strafe, drop napalm, fire rockets or drop bombs. The Skyraider was the right plane for this war.
On a gray December morning, I was called to the flag bridge. Admiral “Black Jack” Perry, the Carrier Division Commander, told me they had a classified request from UN headquarter to bomb some critical bridges in the central area of the North Korean peninsula. The bridges were a dispersion point for many of the supplies coming down from the North and were vital to the flow of most of the essential supplies. The Admiral asked me to take a look at the targets and see what we could do about taking them out. As I left, the staff intelligence officer handed me the pre-strike photos, the coordinates of the target and said to get on with it. He didn’t mention that the bridges were defended by 56 radar-controlled anti-aircraft guns.
That same evening, the Admiral invited the four squadron commanders to his cabin for dinner. James Michener was there. After dinner, the Admiral asked each squadron commander to describe his experiences in flying over North Korea. By this time, all of us were hardened veterans of the war and had some hairy stories to tell about life in the fast lane over North Korea.
When it came my time, I described how we bombed the railways and strafed anything else that moved. I described how we had planned for the next day’s strike against some vital railway bridges near a village named Toko-ri (The actual village was named Majonne). That the preparations had been done with extra care because the pre-strike pictures showed the bridges were surrounded by 56 anti-aircraft guns and we knew this strike was not going to be a walk in the park.
All of the pilots scheduled for the raid participated in the planning. A close study of the aerial photos confirmed the 56 guns. Eleven radar sites controlled the guns. They were mainly 37 MM with some five inch heavies. All were positioned to concentrate on the path we would have to fly to hit the bridges. This was a World War II air defense system but still very dangerous.
How were we going to silence those batteries long enough to destroy the bridges? The bridges supported railway tracks about three feet wide. To achieve the needed accuracy, we would have to use glide bombing runs. A glide bombing run is longer and slower than a dive bombing run, and we would be sitting ducks for the AA batteries. We had to get the guns before we bombed the bridges.
There were four strategies discussed to take out the radar sites. One was to fly in on the deck and strafe the guns and radars. This was discarded because the area was too mountainous. The second was to fly in on the deck and fire rockets into the gun sites. Discarded because the rockets didn’t have enough killing power. The third was to come in at a high altitude and drop conventional bombs on the targets. This is what we would normally do, but it was discarded in favor of an insidious modification. The one we thought would work the best was to come in high and drop bombs fused to explode over the gun and radar sites. To do this, we decided to take 12 planes; 8 Skyraiders and 4 Corsairs. Each plane would carry a 2000 pound bomb with a proximity fuse set to detonate about 50 to 100 feet in the air. We hoped the shrapnel from these huge, ugly bombs going off in mid air would be devastating to the exposed gunners and radar operators.
The flight plan was to fly in at 15,000 feet until over the target area and make a vertical dive bombing run dropping the proximity-fused bombs on the guns and radars. Each pilot had a specific complex to hit. As we approached the target we started to pick up some flak, but it was high and behind us. At the initial point, we separated and rolled into the dive. Now the flak really became heavy. I rolled in first; and after I released my bomb, I pulled out south of the target area and waited for the rest to join up. One of the Corsairs reported that he had been hit on the way down and had to pull out before dropping his bomb. Three other planes suffered minor flak damage but nothing serious.
After the join up, I detached from the group and flew over the area to see if there was anything still firing. Sure enough there was heavy 37 MM fire from one site, I got out of there in a hurry and called in the reserve Skyraider still circling at 15,000 to hit the remaining gun site. His 2000 pound bomb exploded right over the target and suddenly things became very quiet. The shrapnel from those 2000 lbs. bombs must have been deadly for the crews serving the guns and radars. We never saw another 37 MM burst from any of the 56 guns.
From that moment on, it was just another day at the office. Only sporadic machine gun and small arms fire was encountered. We made repeated glide bombing runs and completely destroyed all the bridges. We even brought gun camera pictures back to prove the bridges were destroyed.
After a final check of the target area, we joined up, inspected our wingmen for damage and headed home. Mr. Michener plus most of the ship’s crew watched from Vulture’s Row as Dog Fannin, the landing signal officer, brought us back aboard. With all the pilots returning to the ship safe and on time, the Admiral was seen to be dancing with joy on the flag Bridge.
From that moment on, the Admiral had a soft spot in his heart for the attack pilots. I think his fatherly regard for us had a bearing on what happened in port after the raid on Toko-ri. The raid on Toko-ri was exciting; but in our minds, it was dwarfed by the incident that occurred at the end of this tour on the line. The operation was officially named OPERATION PINWHEEL. The pilots called it OPERATION PINHEAD.
The third tour had been particularly savage for VF-54. Five of our pilots had been shot down. Three not recovered. I had been shot down for the third time. The mechanics and ordnancemen had worked back-breaking hours under medieval conditions to keep the planes flying, and finally we were headed for Yokosuka for ten days of desperately needed R and R.
As we steamed up the coast of Japan, the Air Group Commander, CDR Marsh Beebe, called CDR Trum, the CO of the Corsair squadron, and me to his office. He told us that the prop squadrons would participate in an exercise dreamed up by the commanding officer of the ship. It had been named OPERATION PINWHEEL.
The Corsairs and Skyraiders were to be tied down on the port side of the flight deck; and upon signal from the bridge, all engines were to be turned up to full power to assist the tugs in pulling the ship along side the dock.
CDR Trum and I both said to Beebe, “You realize that those engines are vital to the survival of all the attack pilots. We fly those single engine planes 300 to 400 miles from the ship over freezing water and over very hostile land. Overstressing these engines is not going to make any of us very happy.” Marsh knew the danger; but he said, “The captain of the ship, CAPT. Wheelock, wants this done, so do it!”
As soon as the news of this brilliant scheme hit the ready rooms, the operation was quickly named OPERATION PIN HEAD; and CAPT. Wheelock became known as CAPT. Wheelchock.
On the evening before arriving in port, I talked with CDR Trum and told him, “I don’t know what you are going to do, but I am telling my pilots that our lives depend on those engines and do not give them more than half power; and if that engine temperature even begins to rise, cut back to idle.” That is what they did.
About an hour after the ship had been secured to the dock, the Air Group Commander screamed over the ships intercom for Gray and Trum to report to his office. When we walked in and saw the pale look on Beebe’s face, it was apparent that CAPT. Wheelock, in conjunction with the ship’s proctologist, had cut a new aperture in poor old Marsh. The ship’s CO had gone ballistic when he didn’t get the full power from the lashed down Corsairs and Skyraiders, and he informed CDR Beebe that his fitness report would reflect this miserable performance of duty.
The Air Group Commander had flown his share of strikes, and it was a shame that he became the focus of the wrath of CAPT. Wheelock for something he had not done. However, tensions were high; and in the heat of the moment, he informed CDR Trum and me that he was placing both of us and all our pilots in hack until further notice. A very severe sentence after 30 days on the line.
The Carrier Division Commander, Rear Admiral “Black Jack” Perry a personally soft and considerate man, but his official character would strike terror into the heart of the most hardened criminal. He loved to talk to the pilots; and in deference to his drinking days, Admiral Perry would reserve a table in the bar of the Fujia Hotel and would sit there drinking Coca cola while buying drinks for any pilot enjoying R & R in the hotel.
Even though we were not comfortable with this gruff older man, he was a good listener and everyone enjoyed telling the Admiral about his latest escape from death. I realize now he was keeping his finger on the morale of the pilots and how they were standing up to the terror of daily flights over a very hostile land.
The Admiral had been in the hotel about three days; and one night, he said to some of the fighter pilots sitting at his table, “Where are the attack pilots? I have not seen any of them since we arrived.” One of them said, “Admiral, I thought you knew. They were all put in hack by the Air Group Commander and restricted to the ship.” In a voice that could be heard all over the hotel, the Admiral bellowed to his aide, “Get that idiot Beebe on the phone in 5 minutes; and I don’t care if you have to use the Shore Patrol, the Army Military Police or the Japanese Police to find him. I want him on the telephone NOW!”
The next morning, after three days in hack, the attack pilots had just finished marching lockstep into the wardroom for breakfast, singing the prisoners song when the word came over the loud speaker for Gray and Trum to report to the Air Group Commander’s stateroom immediately, When we walked in, there sat Marsh looking like he had had a near death experience. He was obviously in far worse condition than when the ships CO got through with him. It was apparent that he had been worked over by a real pro.
In a trembling voice, his only words were, “The hack is lifted. All of you are free to go ashore. There will not be any note of this in your fitness reports. Now get out of here and leave me alone.”
Posters saying, “Thank you Black Jack” went up in the ready rooms. The long delayed liberty was at hand.
When writing about this cruise, I must pay homage to the talent we had in the squadrons. LTJG Tom Hayward was a fighter pilot who went on to become the CNO. LTJG Neil Armstrong another fighter pilot became the astronaut who took the first step on the moon. My wingman, Ken Shugart, was an all-American basketball player and later an admiral. Al Masson, another wingman, became the owner of one of New Orleans’ most famous French restaurants. All of the squadrons were manned with the best and brightest young men the U.S. could produce. The mechanics and ordnance crews who kept the planes armed and flying deserve as much praise as the pilots for without the effort they expended, working day and night under cold and brutal conditions, no flight would have been flown.
It was a dangerous cruise. I will always consider it an honor to have associated with those young men who served with such bravery and dignity. The officers and men of this air group once again demonstrated what makes America the most outstanding country in the world today. To those whose spirits were taken from them during those grim days and didn’t come back, I will always remember you.”
The Big E CV-6 USS ENTERPRISE Most Honored Ship in US Navy. Was in nearly every major engagement of the War, from the start to the finish, with the Japanese reporting her sunk 3 times. Scrapped 1 July 1958.
Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt United States Navy – Patton thought this Naval Officer was outstanding.
Sometimes you have to give the Navy Credit
A Sailor’s Perspective on the United States Army
Admiral William H. McRaven, Address to Class of 2015, 500th Night
18 January 2014
Good evening. General and Mrs. Caslen, General and Mrs. Clarke, General Trainor, Col Brazil, Command Sergeants Major Duane and Byers, distinguished guests and most importantly Class of 2015.
I am truly honored to be here tonight to address the future leaders of the United States Army. But, as a graduate of a state school in Texas, who majored in journalism because I couldn’t do math, or science, or engineering or accounting, I am somewhat intimidated by the thought of giving any advice, to any cadet, on anything.
Nevertheless, after almost 37 years in the service, much of that time with the Army, there may be something I can offer. So tonight, as you begin the final 500 days of your time at the United States Military Academy, I would like to give you a Sailor’s Perspective on the Army; not the Army of the Hudson, not the Army of the history books, not the Army portrayed in the countless murals across campus, but the Army you will enter in 500 days—the Army upon which the future of the Nation rests; the Army that you will shape and the Army that you will lead.
So, if you will humor this old sailor, I will tell you what I’ve learned in my time serving with the Army.
In the past twelve years I have worked for the great Generals of this generation; Dempsey, Petraeus, Odierno, McChrystal, Austin, Rodriguez and Dailey. All graduates of the Military Academy, each man, different in his own way.
Dempsey, a man of great humor and compassion, whose quick wit, and keen tactical sense allowed him to secure Baghdad as a Division Commander, lead the Central Command as a three star, and today, as the Chairman, he presides over the greatest change in our military since WWII and he does so with tremendous reason, intelligence and with a song in his heart.
Petraeus, whose understanding of the strategic nature of war was unparalleled. Who saw opportunity in every challenge and who dared greatly in hopes of great victories. His daily command decisions in Iraq and Afghanistan unquestionably saved the lives of thousands of young soldiers.
Odierno, a soldier’s soldier, who as a Division and Corps commander in Iraq, fought with a fierceness one would expect of a great warrior and then as the Commander of all forces in Iraq combined that fierceness with the diplomat’s subtle hand to lead and shape the future of a sovereign Iraq. And today, he leads the greatest Army the world has ever known.
Austin, the quiet bear of a man, whose deep intellect and incomparable combat experience allowed him to think through every complex problem and to succeed where others might have failed.
McChrystal, whose creative mind and intense drive for perfection, changed forever how special operations would fight on the battlefield and changed how SOF would forever be perceived by the Nation—and in doing so, likely changed the course of the Armed Forces as well.
Rodriguez, the everyman’s general who proved time and again, that character matters–that hard work, perseverance, persistence, and toughness on the battlefield are always traits of success.
And Del Dailey, whose boldness and innovation, coupled with a Night Stalkers sense of teamwork and aggressiveness, began the revolution in special operations.
What did I learn about the Army in watching these men and other great leaders like Keith Alexander, Chuck Jacoby, Mike Scaparrotti, John Campbell, Bob Caslen and Rich Clarke?
Well, I learned first and foremost that your allegiance as an officer is always, always to the Nation and to those civilian leaders who were elected by the people, who represent the people.
The oath you took is clear; to support and defend the constitution, not the institution– not the army, not the corps, not the division, not the brigade, not the battalion, not the company, not the platoon, and not the squad—but the Nation.
I learned that leadership is hard. Karl von Clausewitz once said that “everything in war is easy, but the easy things are difficult.” Leadership sounds easy in the books, but it is quite difficult in real life. I learned that leadership is difficult because it is a human interaction and nothing, nothing is more daunting, more frustrating more complex than trying to lead men and women in tough times. Those officers that do it well earn your respect, because doing it poorly is common place. You will be challenged to do it well.
I learned that taking care of soldiers is not about coddling them. It is about challenging them. Establishing a standard of excellence and holding them accountable for reaching it.
I learned that good officers lead from the front. I can’t count the times that I saw Petraeus, without body armor, walking the streets of Mosul, Baghdad or Ramadi, to share the dangers with his men and to show the enemy he wasn’t afraid. Or McChrystal, jocking-up to go on a long patrol with his Rangers or SEALs in Afghanistan; Dempsey on a spur ride in Iraq; Austin at the head of his Division during the invasion of Iraq; Odierno, cigar in mouth, rumbling through the streets of Basrah; Rodriguez and Dailey always center stage during the tough fights in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I learned that if you are in combat, move to where the action is the hottest. Spend time with the soldiers being miserable, exhausted and scared. If you’re a Blackhawk pilot or and Tank Commander, spend some time on the flight line or in the motor pool with the maintainers and the wrench turners. Whatever position or branch you are in, find the toughest, most dangerous, shittiest job in your unit and go do it.
I learned that you won’t get a lot of thanks in return. I learned that you shouldn’t expect it. Your soldiers are doing the tough job every day, but I guarantee you, you will learn a lot about your troops and they will learn a lot about you.
I learned that the great leaders know how to fail. In the course of your Army career you will likely fail and fail often. Nothing so steels you for battle like failure. No officer I watched got it right, every time. But the great ones know that when they fail, they must pick themselves up, learn from their mistakes and move on.
Rudyard Kipling, the great British storyteller, poet and soldier once wrote, in part,
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowances for their doubting too.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.
Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it and which is more–you’ll be a man my son.”
If you can’t stomach failure, then you will never be a great leader.
I learned that great Army officers are risk takers, but the greatest risk is not on the battlefield, but in standing up for what’s right.
I have seen a young lieutenant stand up to a colonel when that officer’s behavior was out of line. I have seen a captain challenge a general about a flawed battle plan. I have seen many a general privately confront their civilian leadership and question the merits of the national decisions.
All Army officers are expected to take risks in battle. The truly great officers know that real victory is achieved when men and women of character take professional risks and challenge the weak-kneed, the faint of heart, the indecisive or the bullies.
And finally, in watching Army officers, young and old, I learned that the great officers are equally good at following as they are at leading. Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership and each of you will be asked to follow someone else. The strength of a good unit rests more on how well the officers follow the commander, than how well they lead their own soldiers.
I have seen many a good Battalion and Company underachieve because someone in the officer ranks thought the Commander was incompetent and quietly worked to undermine his authority. I guarantee you, that in the course of your career you will work for leaders whom you don’t like and don’t respect. It will be easy to make fun of their idiosyncrasies, their receding hair line, their soft chin or their spouse. Be very careful about getting too smug, too opinionated and too righteous. As long as the actions of your commander are moral, legal and ethical, then do everything you can to support the chain of command and avoid the rolling eyes, the whisper campaigns and junior officer dissension.
I learned that the great Army officers know how to follow.
And what about the soldiers that you will lead? In my career I have been fortunate to have served beside soldiers from the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Division, the paratroopers of the All American Division, the 1st Armored Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, the10th Mountain Division, the 1st, 3rd and 4th Infantry Division, all Groups of the Special Forces Regiment and my beloved Army Rangers.
I learned that the greatest privilege the Army can bestow upon you is to give you the opportunity to lead such magnificent men and women.
These soldiers are not without their challenges. Your soldiers will, at times, question your authority. They will undermine your actions. They will mislead you, frustrate you, disappoint you, and occasionally fail you.
But, when the chips are down, I mean really down, your soldiers will be there and they will inspire you with their courage, their sense of duty, their leadership, their love and their respect. In difficult times, your soldiers will be everything you dreamed they would be—and more.
All one has to do is look at the citations that accompany the actions of Sergeants Sal Qunita, Leroy Petry, Robbie Miller, Ty Carter, Jarad Monti, Ross McGinnis, Paul Smith, and Clinton Romesha. Men whose unparalleled heroism, above and beyond the call of duty, was only apparent moments before their brothers were threatened.
I learned that your soldiers are at their best when their brothers and sisters in arms are threatened. They are at their best when life deals them the hardest of blows and their indomitable spirit shines through.
In 2007, I visited the intensive care unit in Landstuhl, Germany, where the Army was sending all of its most critically injured soldiers from Iraq. As I walked into the sterile room, clad from head to toe in clean white garb, a man lay naked on the bed in front of me. Missing one leg above the knee and part of the foot on the other leg, he was swollen beyond recognition from the blast of an IED.
The doctor in attendance didn’t know the man’s unit or service. I asked the man in the bed if he was a Marine or a Soldier. Unable to talk, he pointed to his thigh. There on what was left of his thigh, was a tattoo; the 1st Infantry Division. “You’re a soldier,” I remarked. He nodded. “An infantryman.” I said. He smiled through what was left of his face and then he picked up a clipboard upon which he had been writing notes. He looked me in the eye and wrote on the paper. “I –will—be—infantry—again!” Exclamation point. And somehow I knew that he would.
Just like the young Ranger in the combat hospital at Bagram who had both his legs amputated and was also unable to speak. The nurse at his bedside said that he knew sign language. His mother was deaf and the soldier had learned to sign at a young age. He was so very young and a part of me must have shown a small sign of pity for this Ranger whose life had just been devastated.
With a picture of hand gestures in front of me, the Ranger, barely able to move and in excruciating pain, signed, “I will be okay.”
And a year later I saw him at the Ranger Regimental Change of Command. He was wearing his prosthetic shorties, smiling from ear to ear and challenging the Rangers around him to a pull up contest. He was okay.
Just like the young female sergeant who I just visited at Walter Reed this week. She was seriously injured in a parachute accident. With her father by her side, she laughed off the injury like it was a scratch. She’s been in the hospital for two months and has years of rehabilitation ahead of her. She has no self- pity, no remorse, no regrets, just determination to get back to her unit.
These soldiers and tens of thousands like them will be the warriors you lead in 500 days. You had better be up to the task, because I have learned that they expect you to be good.
And, most importantly, I also learned that your soldiers expect you to hold them to high standards. These soldiers joined the service to be part of something special and if they are not held to a high standard, if their individual efforts are no more important, no more appreciated than the efforts of a slacker then it will directly affect the morale of the unit. And I learned that nothing is more important than the morale of a unit.
MacArthur once said of morale, “…that it cannot be produced by pampering or coddling an Army, and it is not necessarily destroyed by hardship, danger, or even calamity…It will wither quickly, however, if soldiers come to believe themselves the victims of indifference or injustice on the part…of their leaders.”
The great leaders in the Army never accept indifference or injustice and they only judge their soldiers based on the merit of their work. Nothing else is important. Not the soldier’s size, not their color, not their gender, not their orientation, not their religion, not their ethnicity—nothing is important, but how well your soldiers do their job.
I am confident that history will reflect that the young American’s who enlisted in the Army after September 11th, were equal in greatness to their grandfathers and their great grandfathers who fought in the World Wars—and in 500 days you will inherit these incredible soldiers. Be ready.
Finally, in watching the Army for most of my career, I learned that no institution in the world has the history, the legacy, the traditions, or the pride that comes from being a soldier. I am envious beyond words.
I learned that whether you serve 4 years or 40 years you will never, ever regret your decision to have joined the United States Army. You will serve beside the finest men and women in America. You will be challenged every day. You will fail. You will succeed. You will grow. You will have adventures to fill ten life times and stories that your friends from home will never be able to understand.
Your children and their children and their children’s children, will be incredibly proud of your service and when you pass from this earth, the Nation that you served so very well will honor you for your duty. And your only regret will be that you could not have served longer.
And if for one moment you believe that because Iraq is over and Afghanistan is winding down that the future holds few challenges for you, then you are terribly, terribly mistaken. Because as long as there are threats to this great Nation, the Army upon which this Nation was founded, will be the cornerstone of its security, it’s freedom and its future. And you, as Army Officers, will shape that future, secure our freedoms and protect us from harm.
So what has this sailor learned?
That there is no more noble calling in the world than to be a soldier in the United States Army.
Good luck to you all as you complete your final 500 days. May God bless America and may we always have the privilege to serve her.
Thank you very much
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Reflections of a Blackshoe
By
Vice Admiral Harold Koenig, USN (Ret), M.D.
I like the Navy,
I like standing on the bridge wing at sunrise with salt spray in my face and clean ocean winds whipping in from the four quarters of the globe – the ship beneath me feeling like a living thing as her engines drive her through the sea.
I like the sounds of the Navy – the piercing trill of the boatswains pipe, the syncopated clangor of the ship’s bell on the quarterdeck, the harsh squawk of the 1MC and the strong language and laughter of sailors at work.
I like Navy vessels – nervous darting destroyers, plodding fleet auxiliaries, sleek submarines and steady solid carriers.
I like the proud names of Navy ships: Midway, Lexington, Saratoga, Coral Sea – memorials of great battles won.
I like the lean angular names of Navy ‘tin-cans” Barney, Dahlgren, Mullinix, McCloy, -mementos of heroes who went before us.
I like the tempo of a Navy band blaring through the topside speakers as we pull away from the oiler after refueling at sea.
I like liberty call and the spicy scent of a foreign port. I even like all hands working parties as my ship fills herself with the multitude of supplies both mundane and exotic which she needs to cut her ties to the land and carry out her mission anywhere on the globe where there is water to float her.
I like sailors, men from all parts of the land, farms of the Midwest, small towns of New England, from the cities, the mountains and the prairies, from all walks of life. I trust and depend on them as they trust and depend on me – for professional competence, for comradeship, for courage. In a word, they are”shipmates.”
I like the surge of adventure in my heart when the word is passed “Now station the special sea and anchor detail – all hands to quarters for leaving port”, and I like the infectious thrill of sighting home again, with the waving hands of welcome from family and friends waiting pierside.
The work is hard and dangerous, the going rough at times, the parting from loved ones painful, but the companionship of robust Navy laughter, the ‘all for one and one for all’ philosophy of the sea is ever present.
I like the serenity of the sea after a day of hard ship’s work, as flying fish flit across the wave tops and sunset gives way to night.
I like the feel of the Navy in darkness – the masthead lights, the red and green navigation lights and stern light, the pulsating phosphorescence of radar repeaters – they cut through the dusk and join with the mirror of stars overhead.
And I like drifting off to sleep lulled by the myriad noises large and small that tell me that my ship is alive and well, and that my shipmates on watch will keep me safe. I like quiet midwatches with the aroma of strong coffee – the lifeblood of the Navy – permeating everywhere.
And I like hectic watches when the exacting minuet of haze-gray shapes racing at flank speed keeps all hands on a razor edge of alertness.
I like the sudden electricity of “General quarters, general quarters, all
hands man your battle stations”, followed by the hurried clamor of running feet on ladders and the resounding thump of watertight doors as the ship transforms herself in a few brief seconds from a peaceful workplace to a weapon of war – ready for anything.
And I like the sight of space-age equipment manned by youngsters clad in dungarees and sound-powered phones that their grandfathers would still recognize.
I like the traditions of the Navy and the men and women who made them. I like the proud names of Navy heroes: Halsey, Nimitz, Perry, Farragut, John Paul Jones.
A sailor can find much in the Navy: comrades-in-arms, pride in self and country, mastery of the seaman’s trade. An adolescent can find adulthood.
In years to come, when sailors are home from the sea, they will still remember with fondness and respect the ocean in all its moods -the impossible shimmering mirror calm and the storm-tossed green water surging over the bow. And then there will come again a faint whiff of stack gas, a faint echo of engine and rudder orders, a vision of the bright bunting of signal flags snapping at the yardarm, a refrain of hearty laughter in the wardroom and chief’s quarters and messdecks. Gone ashore for good they will grow wistful about their Navy days, when the seas belonged to them and a new port of call was ever over the horizon.
Remembering this, they will stand taller and say,
“I WAS A SAILOR ONCE. I WAS PART OF THE NAVY, AND THE NAVY WILL ALWAYS BE PART OF ME.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vice Admiral Harold M. Koenig USN (Ret), M.D.
Chair and President, The Annapolis Center 32nd Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Vice Admiral Koenig became Chairman and President of the Annapolis Center on July 30, 1998. In this capacity, Dr. Koenig leads the organization as its chief spokesperson and chairman of its Board of Directors.
VADM Koenig became the thirty-second Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, on June 29, 1995. He retired from that position on June 30, 1998 after completing 32 years of active duty service.
A native of Salinas, California, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Brigham Young University. He received his Medical Degree from Baylor University College of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in general pediatrics and pediatric hematology-oncology.
VADM Koenig is a Diplomate of the American College of Healthcare Executives. In 1994 the American Hospital Association named him “The Federal Health Care Executive of the Year”. VADM Koenig served in a variety of clinical roles in the Navy, including general medical officer, residency training program director, department chairman, hospital executive officer and commanding officer.
His staff assignments before becoming the Navy Surgeon General included: command of the Naval Health Sciences Education and Training Command,
Director of Health Care Operations in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) for Health Services Operations and Deputy Surgeon General and Chief of the Medical Corps.
VADM Koenig’s personal awards include the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with Gold Star, Meritorious Service Medal with Gold Star, Navy Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal.
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His Dad took him to the ’53 Army Duke Game. He still recalls the sound of The Bugles, The Drums, The Chanting – The Incessant Chanting – GO! GO!! GO!!!
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In May General MacArthur told us what to expect and what he expected of us. Many of us have his DUTY, HONOR AND COUNTRY farewell address to the Cadet Corps hanging on our walls.
We Graduated 6 June 1962, the 18th Anniversary of D-Day. President Kennedy gave us his expectations of us at our Graduation. We gave President Kennedy a Class Ring, which now is displayed in the West Point Library.
Class of 1962’s Gift to the Corps of Cadets
Kimsey Athletic Center Given by Jim Kimsey and Dave Harkins
Hockey Rec Room by Dave Harkins Contributed to the Daktronics Scoreboard
Frank Caufield Crew and Sailing Center
Founders of Rugby Founders of Judo John Taylor & Ric CespedLee Taylor & Dave McLaughlin
Created the Department Systems Engineering By Jim Kays – First department Head
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Steven D. Pierce We Lost him 3 Feb ’62. He never had the opportunity to give back to America. A Star Man, he could have added so much to our Class Lore. In that moment a part of each man changed — each man became a little of Steve Pierce in his heart. Tom Johnson ’65
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11/14/1967 Mike Casp To get through the line I depended especially on three teammates and Classmates, Mike Casp (our team captain) – at Right Guard, Bill Whitehead – at Center, and Barry Butzer – at Left Guard. They were great Army football players. Bill and Mike were Killed in Vietnam. Barry was Killed in an auto accident several years ago – – Al Rushatz
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11/18/1967 Mike Crabtree, Wife Lynne and Daughter Chris Company Commander 4/503 Infantry, Killed in Combat 18 November 1967. Glen arranged for Classmates attending the Advance Coarse to fly to West Point for Mike’s Burial. It hurt.
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** Marlene Garvey for Dick Need Crest A man of intellect, good humor, and calm demeanor, with a wonderful sense of family, and a great friend – John Easterbrook
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Jerry & Frances Garwick Thoughts upon Roy Cole’s passing During the summer of 1965 Roy was serving in IV Corps with MACV, and I was with the Marine’s ANGLICO at our Can Tho Headquarters. Bob Fuellhart was among our classmates in the area. Bob was with an ARVN Ranger battalion. Over evening beers Bob would often regale us with stories of his “Tiger” unit’s audacity and bravery in action. One the morning of 12 August, 1965 I was serving my round of duty in the MACV TOC. Bob’s unit was in action and we heard a radio transmission that there were wounded. It was not to long after that when we received word that Bob had been killed during that action. It was only then when an RTO quietly brought a telegram over to my desk. It was a congratulation message from Bob’s (now widow), that she had just given birth to their first child. Roy and I assisted in carrying Bob’s coffin onto an airplane. Less than a week later I was deployed on a temporary mission and rooming with our classmate, Chuck Chandler. Another West Pointer, Ned Loscuito, Class of 1960, was also assigned to this small outpost. Ned had been a member of our Beast Barracks cadre during 1958. During a sweep of a neighboring area on 20 August, Ned was also killed. I was in a funk trying just how any of this made sense. Here we were, supposedly the best and brightest, trained in all aspects of war, and some kid with a WW II bolt action rifle should be so effective against us. Shortly after that I also found out that I could not out run a VC machine gun. I had a lot of growing to do. The somewhat irony of life was Chuck was an Olmstead Scholar in Sao Paulo, Brazil, when his life was cut short by an assassin’s bullet.
Charles Geiss Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill & Chris Gertsch Need Crest, $ and write up
Mike & Phyllis Gibson Need Crest and write up
Richard & Pat Gilligan Need Crest, $ and write up
Ed Gleichman Need Crest, and write up
Mike & Cathy Godshall Need Crest, and write up
Bert & Sue Goldberg Need Crest, and write up
Fred & Marcia Gorden Battery, Battalion, and DivArty Commander; ADC 7th Division(IDL), 61st Commandant of Cadets(first African American), CG 25th Division(IDL), CG, Military District of Washington, his boots were always dusty & dirty. His service was with soldiers. Now leading a gift project to USMA to place a memorial on Buffalo Soldier Field honoring the Black Calvary Regiments who instructed Cadets in Horsemanship.
Dick & Lynn Gramzow Need Crest, and write up
Mike Grebe & Patricia Perry Need a dollar, crest and write up
1/17/1965 Thurston A. (Turk) Griffith Starting guard and key contributor on Army’s 150-pound 1961 football team. KIA Vietnam 1/17/65. Turk and I were in the basic officer’s course together at Fort Gordon, GA. Turk (and others) played on a touch football team. The team was stacked with former college players and had its way with the other teams in the league.Turk played on the inside of the offensive line and had a much larger varsity college player on his outside. The other teams would frequently complain that Turk was not abiding by the rules and I can vividly remember the referee getting right up on the line to try to catch Turk doing something illegal.Now I am sure Turk would never do anything outside the rules, but since the referee was shielded from seeing everything by the player to Turk’s outside, Turk was never called for an infraction.Griffith Hall at Fort Gordon is, of course, named for Turk. It is a BOQ or VOQ and, I am told, has recently been renovated – – by John Easterbrook
Joe & Janice GrossNeed $, Crest, and Write up Catholic Acolytes, Skin Diving & German Club
George Gunderman Need $, Crest, and Write up
John & Suzanne Habblett Need Crest, and write up
Harry HagertyNeed a Crest “You Man Halt” Twice he heard it, Harry halted for one ran at the other – he had well over 200 hours on “The Area” No one ever had a better Ranger Buddy – Phil Burns
Herbert & Sally Hameister Need Crest, and write up
Ed & Jane Hamilton Need dollar, Crest and write up
George Handy & Marilyn HandyNeed a Crest M2 Honor Rep, Soccer – A Friend who will stand with you. George continues to be a part of teams – currently involving East Europeans and Americans in economic growth and stronger security.
Pierce & Maura Hanley Need Crest, and write up
Kraig Hansen Need Crest, $ and write up
Don & Kashara Hard Need Crest, and write up
Dave & Sheryll Harkins Need Crest, $, and write up Earned 6 Army As – Playing both Hockey and Lacrosse. Dave & Sheryl gave the Hockey Recreation Room and along with Brian Concannon 79′ and wife Grace gave a video board over 12-feet high by 23 feet wide hung in the South end of Tate Rink .
Jim & Martha Harrington Need Crest, $, and write up
Harold & Beverly Harris Need Crest, $, and write up
Bob & Kitty Harrison Need Crest, and write up
Willard & Donna Harrison Need Crest, and write up
Al Hartman Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Marilyn Heigl Need $, Crest & write up
Jim & Tina Heldman Need Crest, $ and write up
Dick & Margaret Helmuth Need Crest, $ and write up
Lew & Frances Higinbotham Need Crest, 1 Dollar, and Writeup
2/14/1966 William Hoos & Barbara Calabrese Need Crest, and Writeup
Frank & Patricia Horton Third in the Class, Frank wore Stars on his collar for 3 years, while participating in 11 different social and athletic activities. First assignment was 544 Aero Sp Recn Wg; then Harvard PhD in 69; USAF Academy 70; 7th AF RVN 70-71; USAFA again 71-73; ODCSP&O; 351st SMWg; 44MSWg: Cdr 44MSWg, HqSAC 84-85; DDr JSTPS: CIA86-87; DDir DIA 87-90; DCS Intel SAC; Ret ’93 MG General
** Mack & Eloise HowardNeed a Crest The best lacrosse photo Butch Darrell has ever seen is in our Howitzer – Mack leaping into the air, twisting hard to his left, stick high in the air ready to execute a shot on goal. Appointed by Ronald Reagan years ago (for life – which he will honor) as US District Judge for Eastern NC and is now Senior Judge. In addition recently stepped down having served 7 years on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (dealing with “spies and terrorists)
Pat & Yvonne Hueman need dollar, crest, & write up Robert 13th Eng Bn, MIT,159 CnGp,USMA-Math, C7GCS, ODCSO, DepCh AFCENT, MSBA, ODE, ChE AFCENT, USAE Dallas, DEH Ft Campbell
11/2/1968 Robert Hufschmied & Suzy Weisman Killed in Action Republic of Vietnam 2 November 1968
Nick & Valeria Hurst Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Dick & Sharon Irwin Need Crest, $ and write up An Army A in Soccer: A lover of all sports, participating in 8 Clubs. 18th Eng Bde. Project Manag NASA
Chuck & Ellen Ivy Straight from Mississippi Cotton Land, chcucActive in 5 clubs; 2/320 Arty, MACV, AdC CG I Corps Korea, MSEE Columbia, OJCS, JD Georgetown, Atlanta Attorney
Richard & Judy James Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Jerome & Diane Janicke Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Cal & Jan Johnson Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Joe & Alice Johnson Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Marshall & Trudy Johnson Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Erik & Joyce Johnsson Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
David & Judy Jones Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
John Jones Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Paul & Sunny Jones Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Robert & Margie Jordan Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
** Jim & Jeane Kays Stood 9th in the Class – would have stood much higher if he did not have to spend so much time helping me. Created the Systems Engineering Dept at West Point and was 1st Department Head. Gave 26 Years to the 150s.
Paul & Annel Kelley need Crest and write up
John & Faye Kelly need dollar, Crest and write up
John & Kuniko Kendall need dollar, Crest and write up
Richard & Barbara Kent need dollar, Crest and write up
Chis Keuker & Dixie Sowell need Crest and write up
Joseph Kieffer need dollar, Crest and write up
Thomas & Gail Kilmartin need dollar, Crest and write up
Jim Kimsey Founded AOL. Donated Kimsey Athletic Center – South end of Blaik Field, Home of Army Football, major contributor to establishing The ’62 Room, our Class Fitness Center
William Kinard need dollar, Crest and write up
John & Maria King need dollar, Crest and write up
Pete & Maud King Need Crest, write up – my dollar is already in for Pete Many a Saturday on the Football Field
John & Helene Kirby need dollar, Crest and write up
Paul Kirkegaard need dollar, Crest and write up
** George & Karen Kirschenbauer Need a crest “Kirschenbauer, Kirschenbauer, I saw George Kirschenbauer hit a home run over the roof of Cullum Hall!.” Comment by son of Mr. Link (PE Dept.) when George’s name was mentioned, Spring of 2006, at Coach Alitz’s funeral.
Tom & Mary Kling need dollar, Crest and write up
1/23/1966 Roy Kobayashi (Brother Ted) Need Crest, write up
Rudy & Jean Kohler need dollar, Crest and write up
Bill & Betty Kosco need dollar, Crest and write up
Jim & Sue Krause need dollar, Crest and write up
Bob & Pat Krause need dollar, Crest and write up
Buzz & Jeannine Kriesel Redo Writeup and need Crest Against Wisconsin he was head butted. The Ref asked if he was OK, Buzz told Coach to fix him. Coach Alitz stuffed his nose with tissue, waved his ever ready ammonia capsule, and Buzz stepped back on the mat. When Buzz grabbed his opponent, lifted him high in the air, the Ref said let him down gently. Buzz did and pinned him, providing 5 points of the 23 and 8 win. On Christmas leave, on an unheated Air Force transport, Frank Reasoner’s feet were frozen, Buzz unzipped his dress jacket, and had Frank push his feet against Buzzy’s chest. Oh lastly, Jeannine was in the stands at Wisconsin, Buzz might have executed as he did for her benefit. (Write up by a Team Mate)
6/10/1965 Edward Krukowski & Marilyn McKay Need Crest & write up
Don & Sue Lair need dollar, Crest and write up
John & Margaret Landry Need a Crest and write up He wore Stars as a Cadet and as a Soldier. He earned Army A’s with the 150s.
Ron & Sharon Lane Need Crest, and write up My Wrestling Team Mate Phil Burns
Jerry & Jan Lape need dollar, Crest and write up
Fred & Sue LaRoque need dollar, Crest and write up
Arnold & Marilyn Larsen need Crest and write up
James & Eloise Lau need Crest and write up
Burtt Lauck need dollar, Crest and write up
Anthony Larson need dollar, Crest and write up
Dean Learish & Karen Brian need Crest and write up
Anthony & Susan Leatham need dollar, Crest and write up
Roger & Laura Lee need Crest and write up
Dick & Beverly Lembo need dollar, Crest and write up
Bob & Sophia Lilley need Crest and write up
Jim Lindsey need dollar, Crest and write up
Dave & Rosemary Logan need dollar, Crest and write up
Ray & Judith LoPresto need dollar, Crest and write up
Bob & Janice Loupe Need a Crest Bob’s keen sense of humor and loquacious personality always kept the basketball team in high spirits and the airways of KDET lively. Bob, however, will always be remembered for scoring the winning basket during the Army-Navy basketball game of 1962. In the waning moments of the game with both Stu & Al out, he brought the ball up court, his eyes became fixed on the basket, he drove to it, and lifted the ball to the final points of the game.
Art & Dagmar Lovgren need dollar, Crest and write up
Rogelio & Prosperidad Lois need dollar, Crest and write up
Ralph & Jean Lurker need dollar, Crest and write up
Ken & Lyndell Lutes need dollar, Crest and write up
Al & Bernadette Lynch need dollar, Crest and write up
Jon & Patricia Lynn Need Crest, and write up
Dick & Theresa Madden need Crest and write up
Honald & Sam Maidt need Crest and write up
Tom Mailey (Pat – Brother) need Crest and write up
Jim & Joyce Malley need dollar, Crest and write up
Bernard & Connie Martin need dollar, Crest and write up
Jim & Judith Martin need dollar, Crest and write up
Ken & Grace Martin Need Crest, $ and write up
Willard Mattson need dollar, Crest and write up
Joe & Fern Mayfield need dollar, Crest and write up
Dick & Toni Mayo need Crest and write up
George McBride need dollar, Crest and write up
Jeff & Elena McCarthy need Crest and write up
Terrance McCarthy need dollar, Crest and write up
Jim & Jane McCrorey need Crest and write up
Mike & Nina McDonnell need Crest and write up
8/2/1966 James & Lucy McDonough Need Crest & write up
Ray McDowall need Crest and write up
Alan McElhose (Barry brother) Need Crest and write up
Brian & Lillian McEnany Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Jean McGarry Need Crest, $ and write up
Scott & Lally McGurk Need Crest, $ and write up Miss Lally got upset when we ate her tulips at one of our Bragg parties.
Jim & Marilyn McKay Need Crest, $ and write up
Cliff & Carol McKeithan Need Crest, $ and write up Flew the Mohawk in Vietnam, a test pilot on the XV-15, and flew choppers.
Brian & Nancy McKinleyNeed Crest and write up
David & Barbara McLaughlin Need a Crest As Plebes Dave asked Lee Taylor “Will you teach me” – two years later when they placed winning certificates on General Stillwell’s desk, he said “Do not do that again”. They did it again and General Stilwell approved Judo as an Academy Club.
Thomas McMahan Need Crest, and write up
Paul & Isolde McNamara Need Crest, $ and write up
Roger & Sally McNamara Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Jeanne McQuillen Need Crest, $ and write up
Wilton & Patrena McRae Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill & Candace Meade Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Pauline Meceda Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Susan Meehan Need Crest, $ and write up
Harry & Anne Meeth Need Crest, $ and write up
Larry & Martha Mengel Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Peggy Mennie Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom Merrell & Anita DeJarlais Need Crest, $ and write up
Charles & ( Clark Lee ) Merriam Need Crest, $ and write up
Sam & Loretta Meyer Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Diane Middaugh Need Crest, $ and write up
Allen Miller & Patricia Winterhalter Need Crest, $ and write up 34th Field Arty. Math Professor USMA
Art & Cecelia Miller Need Crest, $ and write up
Frank & Joan Miller Need Crest, $ and write up
Henry Miller Need Crest, $ and write up
Robert Miller Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill & Roselind Millerlile Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Roseanne Minson Need Crest, $ and write up
Craig & Georgina Mitchell Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill & Loretta Mogan Need Crest, $ and write up
Jan & Marline Molvar Need Crest, $ and write up
David & Zelda Moore Need Crest, $ and write up
Mike & Lisa Moore Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Barbara Moore Need Crest, $ and write up
Laurence Mooring Need Crest, $ and write up
Doug & Barbara Morgan Need Crest, $ and write up
**Carl Morin by Evelyn Carl led his High School Team in stopping Bob Anderson ’61 in his tracks. A loving, caring Father and Husband and a Solider who was a credit to West Point. Co 212th F Arty, OSD.
Jim Mount Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Karen Munford Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Arline Mundt Need Crest, $ and write up
Bob & Ann Munsch Need Crest, and write up
Tom & Judy Munson Need Crest, and write up
Paul & Carol Murphy Manager Cross Country Team; 13th & 27th Arty Hawaii; 23d F Arty Gp RVN; MS in Aerospace; Mechanics Professor USMA; 4th Missile Command Korea, Readiness Command. We lost him in a chopper crash 1977.
Vincent & Mary Murphy Need Crest, $ and write up Moved all the way up to 17th from the bottom of the Class. MACV, Arty B Co
Charles & Ann Murray Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Roe Ann Murray Need Crest, $ and write up
Charles Nahlen Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Alice Nau Need Crest, $ and write up
Larry & Saundra Needs Need Crest, $ and write up
Phillip Nelson Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Linda Neumann Need Crest, $ and write up
Harry Nieuwboer Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Rebecca Noake Need Crest, $ and write up
Donald Noble Need Crest, $ and write up
Marvin & Ann Norwood Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Susan Novotny Need Crest, $ and write up
Joe & Sally Nunnelee Need Crest, $ and write up
Neil & Jo Nydegger Need Crest, $ and write up
Mike O’Brien Need Crest, $ and write up
Pet & Gail Oldfield Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Terry O’Neal Need Crest, $ and write up
Charles O’Regan Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Judith Ostenberg Need Crest, and write up
Ed & Pat Pabich Need Crest, $ and write up
Ken Pakula Need Crest, $ and write up
Livio & Lorraine Pardi Need Crest, $ and write up
Wayne Parker & Tatjana Parker Need a Crest Inspired by John Taylor, coached by Rick with the nucleus of Tank, Russ, Bob, Bill, Dave, Paul, Dennis, Wayne & Mike, ’62 gave West Point Rugby, a team that has dominated the sport since its inception.
Larry & Delia Parmenter Need Crest, $ and write up
Bruce & Yoko Parsons Need Crest, and write up
Anthony Pattarozzi Need Crest, $ and write up
Gary & Debbie Paxton Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom Pearson Need Crest, $ and write up
Don Pederson Need Crest, $ and write up
Rudoff & Doreen Penczer Need Crest, $ and write up
Joe Pendergraft & Arline Valliere Need Crest, $ and write up
Ray Pendleton Need Crest, $ and write up
Eldon & Pam Perdew Need Crest, and write up
Jim & Merle Peterson Need Crest, $ and write up
Joe & Kathryn Petrolino Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill & Nancy Petty Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill Pfeifer & Mary Sue Clark Need Crest, and write up
Dave & Sharon Phillips Need Crest, and write up None attended more Athletic events than Dave while also involved in 6 Clubs. Master of Science RPI, West Point
Howie & Susan Prince Need a dollar, and a Write Up
1/9/1965 William & Rosemary Reach Need Crest & write up
Jack & Susie Reavill I needComments, and Crests – Jack Gave me a Do0llar It was necessary to remove the posting I originally had.
7/12/1965 Frank Reasoner & Sally Nordstrom 3d Recon Bn, 3d Mar Div Frank once told me that he wanted 3 things – 30 Years in the Marine Corps, own a bar outside the Main Gate of a Marine Base and Earn the Medal of Honor. Frank was Killed in Action 12 July 1965. He was Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions – – by a Wrestling Teammate
Dennis & Mary Jo Reimer Founding Member of Army Rugby. As 33d Army Chief of Staff, used “Soldiers are our Credentials” to insure the Army would not forget Soldiers remained our core competency. 1945 – – The 8th Division ADC in accepting the surrender of a German Unit, when asked by the German Commander to show his credentials, he pointed to two riflemen behind him and responded – “These are my Credentials”. Distinguished Graduate
Larry Remener Involved in 9 Sport & Activity Clubs; He could speak the language of the farmer & laborer, as well as the politician & soldier. Berlin Brigade, 10th, 6th & 5th Sp Forces, 1st / 46th Inf, SHAPE
Kevin & Laraine Renaghan
Bob & Gerri Ricks Need a dollar and review write up Successful Infantry Career, then to Medical School, Retirement, then recalled to Active Duty to Participate in Medical Evaluation Study.
Joe & Collen Rigby Need Crest, and write up
Dave & Jean Riggs Need Crest, $ and write up
Dick & Elizabeth Rohrbacher A Good Friend Need Crest & Write up
Michael & Judy Rosenberg Need Crest, $ and write up
Robert & Paige Rumph Need Crest, $ and write up
** Al & Lynda Rushatz 6 Army A’s An All American in Football & Wrestling. Inspirational Guide in Creating the 62′ Room in Arvin Gym. 145th Avn Bn RVN, Def Rep India, 8th Cav RVN, Co 269 Avn Bn, G3 XVIII Abn Cps. DPE USMA. (Flew Mission after Mission attempting to contact Glen Blumhardt when the Vietnamese Regiment Glen was Advising was over run. Glen led a small group out)
James & Huda Ryan Need Crest, $ and write up
Richard Ryer Need Crest, $ and write up
Marcial Samaniego Need Crest, and write up
Larry & Bonnie Sanders Need Crest, $ and write up
George & Sue Sarran Need Crest, $ and write up
Ronny & Carol Sayers Need Crest, and write up
Francis & Susan Sazama Need Crest, $ and write up
Alan Scarsella & Linda Higby Need Crest, $ and write up
Francis & Betty Scharpf Need Crest, and write up
Larry & Nancy Scheeme Need Crest, $ and write up
**George & Diana Schein Chairman of the Cadet Honor Committee. Doctor serving the Pittsburg community. During June Week 1962, at the corner of Grant Hall, John Selby and Jim Kays bumped into George Schein as George was headed out to meet his soon to be wife Diana. George asked how I was doing, studying for an Ordnance Department Turnout. John said something like – He is in the rack and has not been studying. George immediately turned around running back into South Area, asking which Room? I was in the rack when the door crashed open and I heard the leather soles hit the concrete floor as I pretended to be asleep – maybe he would go away. Suddenly my bed was lifted and I was thrown against the wall. I got up saw who it was laughed and said “George!”. He said get over at that desk and study. He returned once and I was at the desk. The Turnout was easy. To this day whenever a woman with spikes hits a concrete floor, I flinch. By a Friend
Bill & Jeane Scheer Need Crest, $ and write up Inspired by John Taylor, coached by Rick with the nucleus of Tank, Russ, Bob, Bill, Dave, Paul, Dennis, Wayne & Mike, ’62 gave West Point Rugby, a team that has dominated the sport since its inception.
Jim & Ursula Schmidt Need Crest, and write up
John & Diane Schmidt Need Crest, $ and write up
Martin & Lia Schmidt Need Crest, $ and write up
Paul & Jean Schott Need Crest, $ and write up
Michael & Judy Schredl Founding Member of Army Rugby; an aggressive Tiger on the playing fields, while involved in 15 different Clubs. The 24178 Undistinguished Graduate – 362 below the 1st man in the Class and 238 above the last man in the Class; The Army sends you to hot places in the muddle of nowhere and the Air Force sends you to cold places, in the middle of nowhere.
Steve Schwam Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill Swartz Need Crest, and write up
Gary & Sharyn Seasholtz Need Crest, $ and write up
Jerry & Janis Seay Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Barbara Selby Need Crest and write up. Donation paid. ME Tx A & M, AdC CG Ft Wood, OPO DA, NavFacEComd, President John N Blake Inc. ( In 1961 at the corner of South Area and Grant Hall, as I rounded the corner returning from Summer leave, I met John and Jim Kays “I said guess who loves Me” John immediately said “Molly”. John, Jim and I were room mates Yearling Year.)
Jim Seltzer Need Crest, $ and write up
Gary Sharp Need Crest, $ and write up
Charles Shaw & Nataya Kochasuntorn Need Crest, $ and write up
Fred & Alyce Sheaffer Need Crest, $ and write up
Stew & Carolie Shepard Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Judith Sholly Need Crest, $ and write up
Roger & Marian Shope Need Crest, and write up
Bob Shuey Need Crest, $ and write up
Stan & Sharon Shutes Need Crest, and write up
Pete Siedzick Need Crest, and write up
Bob & Barbara Sikorski Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Linda Simcox Need a dollar Tom and write up.
Joe Simoneaux Need Crest, $ and write up
Steve & Marion Spearman Need $ and write up
Chris & Mary Ann Spivey Need Crest, $ and write up
Eldon & Judy Spradling Need Crest, $ and write up
Ron & Madeline Skarupa Need Crest, $ and write up
Dick & Julia Sklar Need Crest, $ and write up
Bernard & Antonetta Skown Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom Slaggie Need Crest, $ and write up
Duane & Janet Slater Need Crest, $ and write up At Buckner I had good looking boots. Duane asked me to shine his. I said “Sure”. I gave his boots back just before inspection – one shined beautifully, the second with the mud still on.
John & Carol Sloan Need Crest, $ and write up
Tim Small Need Crest, $ and write up
Dale & Sharon Smith Need Crest, and write up
Larry & Maren Smith Need Crest, $ and write up
William & Chonita Smith Need Crest, and write up
Don & Caroline Snider Need Crest, $ and write up
Raife Snover Need Crest, and write up
Wayne Snow Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Sally Spangler Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Donna Spencer Need Crest, $ and write up
Derek & Jeanne Sprouse Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Ann Spurlock Need Crest, $ and write up
Chris Stanat (Daughter Julia) Need Crest, and write up
Warner & Cissie Stanley Need Crest, $ and write up
Ed& Margaret Starbird Need Crest, $ and write up
Bill Steiner Need Crest, $ and write up
Richard & Marj Steinke Need Crest, $ and write up
Dan Stephenson Need Crest, $ and write up
Dick & Teresa Stephenson Need Crest, $ and write up
Don & Dona Stewart Need Crest, and write up
Phil & Marianne Stewart Need Crest, $ and write up
Ron & Margaret Stock Need a crest and write up June Week he stood an Officers Board to insure he was tall enough to be Commissioned.
Todd & Vivian Strong Need Crest, $ and write up
Richard & Susan Storat Need Crest, $ and write up
Don & Georgina Street Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Susan Strohmeyer Need Crest, $ and write up
Ted & Harriet Stroup Need Crest, $ and write up Swimming, along with 7 additional Clubs to include Senior Editor of the Howitzer Masters @ Texas A & M, HEADSUPACTVN, MACV/USARV, USMA
Dick & Jane Strom Need Crest, $ and write up
Drone & Denice Sweeney Need Crest, $ and write up
George & Marian Sweet Need Crest, $ and write up
Carles & Connie Swick Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Moira Symanski Need Crest, $ and write up
Albie & Barbara Symes Need Crest, $ and write up
Joe & Ann Szwarckop Need Crest, and write up
Bob & Beverly TarbetNeed Crest, and write up Sunday School Teacher, 1st Arm Div, MACV, 82d Abn 1/67th Arm, USASTRATCOM, Chaplain several Military Units ending with the 6th Cav Bde Ft Hood.
Craig & Marianne Taylor Need Crest, $ and write up
John Taylor Need Crest, and write up Inspired by John coached by Rick with the nucleus of Tank, Russ, Bob, Bill, Dave, Paul, Dennis, Wayne and Mike, ’62 gave West Point Rugby, a team that has dominated the sport since its inception. Both Women’s and Men’s Rugby are now a Corps Squad.
Lee & Ingrid Taylor Need Crest, As Plebes Dave McLaughlin asked Lee “Will you teach me” – two years later when they placed winning certificates on General Stillwell’s desk, he said “Do not do that again”. They did it again and General Stillwell approved Judo as an Academy Club.
Walter Taylor Need Crest, $ and write up
Dan & Lorene Teed Need Crest, $ and write up
George (Tank) & Dana Telenko Scrum Lock 1st West Point Rugby Team – In first Advisor Group to Vietnam 1964; Aide to CG 1st Armored Division; Regt S2/1st Sqdn; XO 11th ACR Vietnam 1969; Activated Lima Tank Plant and built first year production of M1 Abrams Tanks; Bn Cmdr 5/68 Armor , 8th Divison.
Roger & Joan Telford Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Diane Teuten Need Crest, $ and write up
Billie & Jackie Thomas Need Crest, $ and write up
Bob & Patricia Thomas Need Crest, $ and write up
Stanley Thompson Need Crest, $ and write up
Fred Tilton Need Crest, $ and write up
Chuck & Jerri Tinnemeyer Dollar is paid Need Write up & Crest Hockey Manager, 62d Engr Bn RVN, Math Professor USMA, PM Turner Collie Co.
Gene & Becky Tomlinson Need Crest, $ and write up
Dave & Dominica Treadwell Need Crest, $ and write up
Ron & Betsy Tumelson Need a dollar, crest and write up 506 Airborne Inf, 1st Special Forces, Co CO 3/1 Inf, 82 Airborne, ODCSPER USAREUR.
Ron & Daphne Tumlin Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Linda Tumpane Need Crest, and write up
Gerald & Arlene Tysver Need Crest, $ and write up
John & Martha Ulmer Need Crest, $ and write up
Henry & Kathy Urna Need Crest, $ and write up
Don & Anne Voss Need Crest, and write up
John & Dorothy Vranish Need a dollar, crest and write up Wrestling, Engineer.
Ivan & Linda Waggoner Need Crest, and write up
** John & Peggy Wagner L-1 Cadet Company Commander, Choir, Sunday Sch Teacher, Turned Out in Spanish, but still wore 2 Gold Stars on his Collar, Btry CO 6/32d Arty, Ft. Lewis,Sixth Army, CO 66th HEM Co, 7th Army Germany, Hqs Sup Comd RVN, MACV, MS Mgmt.Sloan School, MIT, General Electric, VP Pengo Ind, A Young & Co, Management Consultant.
Steventon Wagner Need Crest, and write up
John & Janice Walker Need Crest, $ and write up
Bob Walker Need Crest, $ and write up
Tom & Mary Jean Walker Need a dollar, crest and write up 2d Amor Cav, 34th Arty, Honeywell, Digital Equip Corp, College Prof.
Ken & Helen Wallace Need Crest, $ and write up
Roy Wallace Need Crest, $ and write up
Windsor & Barbara Ward Need Crest, $ and write up
Stephen Warner Need Crest, $ and write up
Sam & Kay Wasaff Need Crest, and write up
Larry & Jane Waters Need Crest, $ and write up
6/29/1965 Douglas Wauchope Need write up & crest 3d Marine Expeditionary Force
Art & Jo Ann Webb Need Crest, $ and write up
Ernest & Pat Webb Need Crest, $ and write up
Bob & Judith Weinfurter Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim & Lila Weiss Need Crest, $ and write up
Bob & Ann Wells Need Crest, $ and write up
Francis & Shelley Welper Need Crest, $ and write up
Paul & Patty Wertz Need Crest, $ and write up
Steve & Mary West
Francis & Judith Westfall
Matt & Barbara Whelton
Bill & Karen White
6/30/1968 William C. & Mary Ann Whitehead Need a Crest To get through the line I depended especially on three teammates and Classmates, Mike Casp (our team captain) – at Right Guard, Bill Whitehead – at Center, and Barry Butzer – at Left Guard. They were great Army football players. Bill and Mike were Killed in Vietnam. Barry was killed in a car accident. – – Al Rushatz
Evans & Marianne Whiting
Dan Wick
John & Darlene Wilcox
Al & Lorene Wilheim
Ben & Virginia Wilkerson
Merle & Marion Williams
Ron & Virginia Williams
Don & Joanne Williamson
Wayne & Joanne Willis
Dave Windom John & June Winkler Need a dollar, crest and write up 2/506 Inf, MACV, USMA, TRADOC, MILPERCENT
Jim Winslow Need
Joe & Jeanne Wise
Geoffrey Withers
Jay Witt
Ron & Liesel Witzel
Don & Carol Woeber
Joe & Suzanne Wojcik
Bob Wong
Don Woodman
Bill & Bernadine Worth
Henry & Sandra Worthington
Jim Worthington & Kitty Sibold
Pete Wuerpel Responsible for the recording of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur‘s Duty Honor Country Farewell Address to the Cadet Corps – on 12 May 1962. Created the Wuerple Roll to ease our efforts during summer Class Trips.
Dick & Sharon Wylie Sunday Sch Teacher; CO D Co 13th Eng Bn Korea; MD Civil Engr Purdue; CO B Co299 Eng Bn S-3937th Eng Gp RVN; Expan Planning USMA:Facility Engr 8th Army, Korea;Dep District Engr Pittsburgh; Const Engr Forscom; CO 3rd Bn Ft Belvoir; Adv Missouri Natl Guard Engineers; Chief of Staff Troscom St Louis
Bob & Jo Ann Zabik
Ernest & Darleen Zenker
7/7/1965 Ronald L. Zinn (Jerry Zinn – Brother) First Cadet to be selected to a USA Olympic team; competed in race-walking at the 1960 Olympics and was top American finisher in the 20K race. Also a key contributor on the Academy cross-country and track teams. Ron was Killed in Action Vietnam 7/7/65 – – by John Easterbrook
Paul & Johanna Zmuida need $ Crest, &write up
For the 815 Classmates who became the West Point Class of 1962 – Tuesday 1 July 1958
For the details of why I want to tell the guests of Room 405 what we did – see below
MG Ames Albro*
Fred Attaya (1) by McWilliams
LTC Darrell Anderson*
Gary Bacon
John Bard (8) By ’62 Gary Bacon & John H. Klingberg
CPT Herbert Booth*
James Carroll
Bob Chapman (4) by ’62
Jack Charles (3) by ’62
Kirk Cockrell (1) by Schweiger
Pat Dyer (13) by George Handy Class of ’62 M2 Honor Rep
Col Paul Driscoll*
Jay Edwards (2) by ’62
William Epling
Howard Gabbert
Paul Garneau
Jay Gould (5)
Hal Greer (9) by ’62
Frank Hicks (1) by ’62
Col Rufus Hutcheson*
R. A. Ironside
William Jessee* (9)
Peter Jones (3) by ’62
Donald Kirklighter*
John H. Klingberg
Ken Kramer (1) by ’62
Jack Krause (1) by ’62
LTC Donald Lewis*
Joe Lapchick (1) by ’62
Jan LeCroy (4) by ’62
Jerry Lodge (1) by ’62
Jack Logan
Leroy Lunn (1,7) by ’62
Bill McVeigh* (2)
Marion Meador (9) by ’62
Bob Mischak (1) by McWilliams
LTC John Morris*
Ed Moses (2) by ’62
LTC George O’Brien*
G. Parshall
George Perrin (4) by ’62
Cary Peyton
1LT William Purdue* (1)
Melvyn D. Remus
Col Teodorico Sanchez*
Paul Schweikert (1) by ’62
Rox Shain (1) – my friend by W. C. “Tiny” Tomsen
John Shelter*
Lowell Sisson (1) by McWilliams
Ben Schemmer* (2,6)
Fred Schweiger
LTG Lawrence Skibbie*
Norm Stephen (1) by ’62
W. C. “Tiny” Tomsen
Col Scott Wetzel*
CPT Don York*
T. C. Young (11) by George Schein Class of ’62 Chairman of the Honor Committee
Dick Ziegler (1) by ’62
* Classmates, Friends & A2 Company Mates In Memory of Days Gone By – – Dr. Jay Gould III (5)
Tommy Bell (1) by McWilliamsBill
Chance (1) by ’62
John Clayton* (2)
William Doremus (1) by ’62
Joe Franklin (1)
Jerry Hagan (1) by ’62
Larry Herdman (1) by ’62
Frank Hicks (1) by ’62
Fred Kneiriem (1) by ’62
Dan Ludwig (3) by ’62 MG Carl McNair
James R. C. Miller (1) by ’62
William & Veronica McWilliams (13)
Ski Ordway (1) by J. Franklin and W. McWilliams
Bill Robinson (2) by ’62
Benjamin Roberts MAJ Alex Rupp* (6)
Paul Sullivan (1) by ’62 John Wing (1) by ’62
Al Worden (2) by ’62
Ed Zaborowski (1)
Nick Bruno (1) by ’62
Frank Burd (1) by ’62
Ralph Chesnauskas (1)
Bill Cody (1) by ’62
Donald Ernst (1) by ’62
Bob Farris (1)
Charles Glenn (3) by ’62
Howard Glock (1) by ’62
Don Holleder (1) by B. Farris and R. Chesnauskas
Pete Lash (1)
Paul Lasley (1) by ’62
Ron Melnick (1) by ’62
Col. Russell Mericle (1)
Don Shannon (1) by ’62
Donald Satterfield (1) by ’62
Pat Uebel (1) by ’62
Peter Vann (1) by B. Farris and R. Chesnauskas
Jerry Wynn (1) by B. Farris and R. Chesnauskas
Mike Zeigler (1) by ’62
1. Football Team
2. Cheerleader
3. Tumbler
4. Mule Rider
5. Victory Cannon
6. Navy Goat Procurer
7. Football Team Captain
8. Cadet Brigade Commander
9. Football Manager
10. Plebe Team Players
11. Chairman of the Honor Committee
12. M2 Honor Rep
13. Bill McWilliams ’55 – Author of “A Return To Glory” – A driving influence for this Room’s Dedication
Bob Christiansen
Jospeh Cygler (10) 2 Army A’s
Donald & Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Howard Haupt (10)
Tom Kehoe (10)
Nick Monaco
James H. Morgan
Jerry Patterson
Dick Stephenson (10) by ’62 3 Army A’s
F.R. Stevens
John H. Stokes III
Leonard P. Wishart III
We became the Class of 1962 on 1 July 1958. From our original 815, we Graduated 601 on the 6th of June 1962.
The Upper Classes insured we understood and appreciated what had gone before.
The 1953 Football Season was one that touched both our need to appreciate the success of Army Football and our training in our Honor Code.
As a kid, one Classmate would climb a tall old oak tree on the North end of Michie to watch his Army Heroes play each Saturday. To this day he can still rattle off many of the names of the ’53 Team.
Another Classmate’s Father took him to the Duke Game. To many, that may be Army’s Greatest Game.
In the years since our Graduation, the Cadet Corps has lost touch with not just the success of the 1953 Football Team but what the 1953 – 1954 Corps of Cadets actually accomplished.
We, members of the Class of 1962 cannot accept that. Room 405 links today’s Corps of Cadets and all future Cadet Corps with a piece of their Heritage.
Col. Blaik said to the Team after the Navy Game ” —- you have done more for Football at West Point than any other team in the history of the Academy”
Many members of the Class of 1962, and Wives of some we have lost, thank the 1953 -1954 Corps of Cadets for what they did for our Alma Mater.
Col Blaik, Coaches Dobbs, Laslie, Amen, St Onge, Bevans, Deitzel – by ’62
Col Russell P. “Red” Reeder Class of 1926 by ’62
Morris Herbert – Class of 1950 “Number of us (classmates) listened to the ’53 Navy Game on the radio — it was at Fort Bliss. We were all 1st Lts or Captains. When Pat Uebel scored his 3rd touchdown of the day, one of my classmates leaped up in glee, and accidentally sat down in the bowl of potato salad!
“Jesse Faber Class of 2012 – As a Yearling Jesse attempted to have his Class support the Nomination of the ’53 Team for the Army Sports Hall of Fame. The Academy Staff determined Cadets should not have any role in the Nomination process. Thanks for your support Jesse.
Coach & Mrs. Hugh Wyatt Created the Black Lion Award Honoring Don Holleder and the Other Black Lions Lost 10/17/1967.
Terry & Mary Tibbetts – – Author A Spartan Game: The Life and Loss of Don Holleder.
WHO WAS THIS ?? His Dad took him to the ’53 Army Duke Game. He still recalls the sound of The Bugles, The Drums, The Chanting – The Incessant Chanting – GO! GO!! GO!!!
PLEASE TELL ME OF ANY ERRORS YOU IDENTIFY
1. I know this is messy – I am addressing issues as I work out the wrinkles.
2. The below listing of Class accomplishments will hang in The Thayer Hotel’s Room 405 Honoring the 1953 1954 Corps of Cadets and their Football Team. I want visitors to know what ’62 did. What we did for our Country. The Room is fully paid for, but you must send me a donation (or something) if you wish to be included in the listing. It is a listing of ’62 Donors.
3. The Core Contributors were the first to ever Donate.
4. If you do not wish to be listed please tell me. Even if you do not wish to be listed, Please consider writing one for a Roommate, Teammate or someone you really respect.
5. As for length – Denny Reimer wanted to reduce his listing as it was too long. I said no because I wanted “These are my Credentials” in Denny’s write up.
3. The names I am adding requires me to use our Howitzer, 2010 Register of Graduates, and ’62 Contacts (for Wife names). I tried indicating Classmates or Wives lost by Bold or Italic, but it does not work. You will see how Vietnam losses are listed.
4. Send your desired listing and unit Crests – to ThinkcreativelyA@aol.com
Follow up with a donation to Phil Burns 608 Portside Dr Davidson, NC 28036
One unresolved problem is if we have lost a Classmate and the wife has a double name, I list Classmates full name & Wife with a double name.
5. Crests may line the left border while your unit crests will go after your name. You may send as many Crests as you desire – you must indicate the order of the listing next to your name. Look at Frank Reasoner’s listing. The Purple Heart is for Killed in Action, the Medal of Honor is next, with Marine Corps and 1st Divison
6. At the bottom -you can see how I handled the ’54 – ’57 and how I handled material under our Crest. I developed the material for Room 405 .
WHO WAS THIS ??
His Dad took him to the ’53 Army Duke Game. He still recalls the sound of The Bugles, The Drums, The Chanting – The Incessant Chanting – GO! GO!! GO!!!
8. At the bottom of the page are 5 Class Crests. The Donors from ’54, ’55, ’56, and ’57 are represented. In addition individuals who contributed to the success of the “53 Team are listed. ’62’s Crest is also included and contains information relating to that Fall. George Schein and George Handy are included under the 54′ Crest. They are the only 62′ Donors listed as of now.
9. If you count the number of names (including Coaches) you will find over fifty members of the 1953 -1954 Corps of Cadets which were required to be added By ’62
Graduated August 30th 1917. In the afternoon of November 3, 1918, he took command of Company D which at the time was heavily engaged with the enemy in the Meuse – Argonne offensive. That night D Company made an attack upon a ridge just south of Beaumont. It was while leading his company in this attack that he was mortally wounded. He was removed to a nearby hospital, where he died November 22, 1918 in France. Age 24 years. Continue reading →
The material below this point is a site a work area.
The '54 Crest
28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all -
an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."
"The Army moves as a team, eats as a team, and fights as a team."
The '55 Crest
Don Holleder Remember - The Soldiers you will lead Always Come First
Vann and Holleder
9 Army A's
The '56 Crest
The '57 Crest
Can Do
Gen Van Fleet addressing the Corps prior to the Navy Game
Constructed under supervision of Jay Gould "54 and the Ord Dept from a German Rocket Gun captured at Kasserine Pass. First used in the Duke Game.
COL "Red" Reeder granted the Cheerleaders Corps Squad status to obtain financial support for their spirit-inducing initiatives.
Bob Mischak - - It should be pointed out that Bob was an All American selection, but is not recognized by the Academy as such because of the organization which selected him.
Ubel scores 3 Times against Navy - Vann's facking results in Peter getting tackled - #10 on the ground behind Ubel
Vann to Sisson
Army's B Squad
Vann to Mischak.
Uebel Intercepts
Cody to Don Holleder
Lasley
Frank Hicks
Burd
Bill Purdue
Cody
Meador Mgr
Ron Melnick
Ralph Chesnauskas
Pat Uebel
Tommy Bell
Sisson headed for another score
Peter Vann stuffs the ball in Jerry's gut
Leroy Lunn & Jerry Lodge
Uebel after taking the handoff from Hagan
Attaya - Army's Fullback
Sisson - one of 3 Great Ends
Bob Mischak
Ralph Chesnauskas
Bob Farris
Vann moving out of the pocket
Peter Vann 10, Billy Chance 38, Herdman 68
Ken Kramer
Joe Lapchick
Kirk Cockrell
Lodge going down tosses to Paul Schweikert for score.
Dick Zeigler
Bob FarrisPlayed the 2d half of the Navy Game blind in one eye.
Pat Uebel
Tommy Bell
Peter Vann
Freddie Attaya
Mike Zeigler
Jerry Lodge wearing #67, playing fullback.
Johnny Wing
Lowell Sisson
Norm Stephen
Jack Krause
Dick Ziegler
Jerry Lodge
Leroy Lunn
Norm Stephen
Jerry Lodge
Corps of Cadets for Navy Game
Can Do
"The Army moves as a team, eats as a team, and fights as a team."
The '54 Crest
The '55 Crest
28th Infantry Regiment Black Lion Award is intended to go to the person on his team "who best exemplifies the character of Don Holleder: leadership, courage, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and - above all - an unselfish concern for the team ahead of himself."
American Friends of LIBI – – These IDF female tank instructors bear a huge responsibility. They give training to tank soldiers in the Armored Corps., who lead the first line of attacking forces in case of ground war. Their operational instructions must be accurate and meticulously communicated. We’re proud of their role in the IDF! – with Etti Attia. 
Medal of Honor 
The Purple Heart indicates Killed in Action – Vietnam
Stars at a name indicates General Officer.
Marine Corps
Air Force
Dave Armstrong 
Need a dollar, a write up and an OK for Crest I selected
Need $, and OK for Crest and Write up
Philip & Mary Ann Browning 
Need a dollar, write up & Crest
Need write up, 1 dollar and Crest approval
Marsh & Missy Carter 
Chuck & Mary Dominy Need 1 dollar write up and Crest
Fred & Marcia Gorden 
Frank & Patricia Horton 
Nick & Valeria Hurst Need 1 dollar, Crest and write up
Need Crest, $ and write up
Jim
John & Margaret Landry Need a Crest and write up
Need Crest, and write up
Need Crest, $ and write up
Howie & Susan Prince 
Need a dollar and review write up
Need a dollar, crest and write up 506 Airborne Inf, 1st Special Forces, Co CO 3/1 Inf, 82 Airborne, ODCSPER USAREUR. 
Need write up & crest
