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Features Entertainment Sports List of Keydets' Election result Op-Ed Men's soccer season branching assignments... ends Hooah! New James Bond movie The Cadet @ First Keydet basketball www.cadetpublications.com game ONE OF THE INDEPENDENTLY OLDEST COLLEGE RUN BY CADETS NEWSPAERS SINCE 1907 1907 THE CADET 2012 VOLUME 106 FRIDAY , NOVEMBER 09, 2012 ISSUE 09 $2.00 ARMY BRANCHES ANNOUNCED After finding out their branches, some rowdy VMI Keydets - now future Army officers - went with COL Wanovich to the Mecca of drinking that is Macado's. By Sam Guidry ’14 CadetAs News an Army Writers Cadet find- overall OML score, is based gence, but Nick Azzolini was were accepted into the pro- Another big day in the life ter the school.” Other Cadets ing out your branch is one solely on GPA. The GPA used the only cadet to branch MI gram.” MAJ Stavinoha, who of the MS-IV’s is finding out that got flight spots are Alex of the biggest days of your is the cadet's cumulative with not prerequisite. “I was is the MSIV Branch Chief/NG. their stations which will, for Green and Chris Schweikart. life. Three years or hard GPA from the end of the year definitely as excited as ev- the most part, occur in a few work and a summer at LDAC Spring Semester before go- eryone else though because COL Wanovich, head of months. Some cadets could All of the MS-IV’s that will determine the next four ing to LDAC. The leadership being in the top 10% was my the Army ROTC department, wait as long as a year to get I talked to seem to be very to eight years of your life. portion is worth 60% of the goal since fourth class year. also thinks that the GRADSO sent to specialty schools, such happy with the branches This is the day that you will OML score. The leadership It was just a realization that achievements by 2013 is the as pilot slots. One such cadet that they received, even a be told what you will do for score is made up of two parts; I achieved what I set out too highlight of the branching it Justin Wasno. “I got a pilot few that didn’t get their first the US Army. This will deter- Leadership (45%) and Physi- which also provided a really this year. It comes with an slot, which was my first choice choices. The class of 2013 mine your potential deploy- cal (15%). The Physical score good feeling. I think we will added commitment but it and I hope to fly either Black overall did very well this year, ments, where you will live, is made up of APFT scores find out our duty station in the is still a very lucrative deal. Hawks or Kiowa scouts. When a great representation of the and maybe even the kind of both before and during LDAC. next couple months.” Azzolini I went in for counseling I was hard work and time that our job that you will get upon ended up on the OML as the Peter Kniesler, another kind of emotionally blank, I Army Department puts into the completion of your time Cadets who rank in the 26th Army Cadet in the Nation. cadet who got his first choice, realized it meant the next 4 the training and programs in the Armed Forces. I can top 10% of their OML are has been planning on be- to potentially 8 years of my here at VMI. Hopefully VMI not think of a day carrying almost always guaranteed “The Army also accepts ing an Engineer in the Army life were being told to me in a has another great year to more weight in a Cadet's life their top pick. One such VMI applications to send their for the last three and a half matter of seconds but I wasn't look forward to with 2014. as they prepare to leave VMI. cadet was Nick Bruno, “After soldiers to Graduate School, years here at VMI, “I'm a Civil really worried or excited, I MS-III cadets have already Three and a half years of any school of their choice in Engineering Major, and I've just was. Then when I found started preparing and train- The branches are deter- hard work I finally earned their future years as an Army had family in the Engineers out it was a mixture of disbe- ing for LDAC and will receive mined by your OML (Order of the job that I wanted in the officer. This year we had an so I figured it made a lot of lief and pride. Schooling will their dates for this sum- Merit List), a list comprised of US army, Military Intelligence overwhelming amount of sense. I was really excited be 15-18 months and will con- mer sometime in the spring. all MS-IV cadets across the branch detail Armor. Shak- grad school acceptance by about the meeting. In fact I sist of flight training as well country. The OML is made up ing the earth with 50 tons of the Army, 10 to be exact. We was so excited about finding as SERE training (Survival, Congratulations to all of two main categories; Aca- steel for the next 10 years.” have not seen those type of out my branch I couldn't con- Evasion, Resistance and Es- of the MS-IV’s in 2013! VMI demic Program and Leader- numbers in quite some time centrate on class and asked cape). However I have been has a lot to expect from this ship Program. The Academic A few other cadets got so this is a big accomplish- the teacher to let me skip out told that the wait is currently graduating class in the rest score, worth 40% of the branch detail Military Inteli- ment for the Cadets that so I could go down earlier.” a year and a half to even en- of this year and in the future. Contents News 1 CADETS TRAVEL TO Entertainment 3 Opinion - AUSA SYMPOSIUM Sports 4-5 as their family members. [and] we've been given displayed their technology Army commander), mid- time to plan and prioritize." for Army officials willing to level officers, and business- Humor 6 By Doug Rush ‘15 The event held at invest. The investors in men attending the sympo- Cadet NewsCadets Writer from VMI the Walter E. Washington Indeed, the event turn could take a hands-on sium. According to Cadet with Mary-Baldwin and Convention Center attracted was still the largest confer- approach and could even 1st Classmen Alex Adkins, VWIL ROTC cadets trav- about 35,000 visitors over ence in Washington D.C. experiment with the gear “Cadets were free to speak eled to Washington D.C. in a three-day period. Many and hosted Army contrac- through virtual screens, in small groups with these order to attend the Asso- of which included Army tors dealing a variety of such as mock rifle ranges alumni and they imparted ciation of the United States generals, officers, and the military gadgets and de- and interactive battlefields. wisdom and advice for our Army annual meeting and Secretary of the Army John fense equipment. Such in- future careers in exchange exposition, a non-profit ed- McHugh. Also among the ventory ranged from tacti- There was also a for token information about ucational organization that Army high brass were sev- cal weaponry to APC’s and small conference for upper each of us.” Cadet Adkins supports America's Army. eral VMI alumni. Still, the cutting-edge helicopters. class VMI cadets to attend continued, “I enjoyed hear- amount of visitors had de- The more than 650 com- with notable alumni, which ing the advice of the officers The Cadet, student newspaper of the The AUSA’s mission Virginia Military Institute, was estab- clined as the Army had panies in turn ranged from included Army generals about army careers. It last- lished in the Fall of 1907 and has been is to represent America’s cut its budget spending by multi-billion dollar compa- (one of which was the 8th ed for about 50 minutes.” continued since that time. Our news- military men and women by nearly 90% compared to nies such as The Boeing paper is published every Friday after- providing them a voice for noon during the academic year, except last year, a drop from about Company and Lockheed during Corps trips, holidays and exam their service while advanc- $10.6 million in 2011 to Martin, the largest defense periods. The Cadet offices are located ing the interests of their $1.3 million. The Army also contractor in the world, to in the Third Barracks Concourse . families, advocating pub- To order a subscription reduced the amount of at- foreign companies from of the Newspaper contact: lic support, and contribut- tendees it was willing to pay South Korea, Turkey, Ger- ing educational programs The Cadet EIC Phone: to travel from around 2,500 many, and even Israel. VMI Box 7 (571) 275-6124 on the importance of the to only about 400. "The re- Lexington, VA Office E-mail: Army to national security. ality is after more than 11 New gadgets include 24450-0304 [email protected] AUSA serves components years of war, leaving one advances in body armor and The Cadet is a member of the Publica- of the army such as the Ac- theater and now preparing helmets, new weapon de- tions Board which serves as the super- tive and Reserve Duty sol- to drawn down in another, signs, and future military visory body for all cadet publications.