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Obama To Receive 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, will receive the 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates. Obama will be the fifth U.S. president to receive the Thayer Award during its 67-year history. The award will be presented on September 19, 2024, during ceremonies hosted by the U.S. Military Academy…
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West Point Class of 2024 Joins the Long Gray Line
Congratulations to the West Point Class of 2024, “Like None Before,” on their graduation from the United States Military Academy on Saturday, May 25, 2024. President Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States, was the graduation speaker marking West Point’s 226th graduating class and the 45th anniversary of the first class to graduate women.
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2024 Distinguished Graduate Awards
Incredibly Humbling and a Tremendous Honor On a beautiful May morning at the Academy, during a review featuring the entire Corps of Cadets, the West Point Association of Graduates presented the 2024 Distinguished Graduate Awards (DGA) to six esteemed members of the Long Gray Line: GEN (R) Wesley K. Clark ’66, AMB Karl W. Eikenberry…
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WPAOG Wins Four Stevie Awards in 2024 American Business Awards®
West Point Association of Graduates Wins Four Stevie Awards in 2024 American Business Awards®.
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West Point Class of 2027 Crest Unveiling
The Plebe Parent Weekend Banquet for the Class of 2027 was a memorable event, marked by the unveiling of their class crest by the Class Ring and Crest Committee Chairman, CDT Trieste Perciavalle ’27.
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2024 Distinguished Graduate Award Recipients
Please join us in congratulating WPAOG’s 2024 Distinguished Graduate Award recipients.
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“Never Quit”: The 2023 Nininger Recipient
Presented by the West Point Association of Graduates, the Nininger recipient serves as a given year’s representative of all West Point-commissioned officers who have heroically led soldiers in combat.
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LTC McKinley Wood ’01 Receives Nininger Award
At a ceremony in the Mess Hall on October 25, 2023, Lieutenant Colonel McKinley Wood (USAR), Class of 2001, accepted the 2023 Alexander R. Nininger Award for Valor at Arms.
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The Honorable Elizabeth Dole Receives Thayer Award
This year, the West Point Association of Graduates presented the Thayer Award to the Honorable Elizabeth Dole. For more than 50 years, Dole has demonstrated a lifetime of service to this country, as a cabinet member for two presidential administrations, as the president of the American Red Cross, and as a U.S. senator.
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Class of 2025 Cow Affirmation Ceremony
The Class of 2025 affirmed their commitment to service on August 13, 2023, and took the Oath of Affirmation, binding them to complete their next two years of study and a minimum of five years of active-duty military service thereafter.
