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The Supernatural Side of the Academy OCTOBER 31, 2019 1 WWW.WESTPOINT.EDU THE OCTOBER 31, 2019 VOL. 76, NO. 42 OINTER IEW® DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY PSERVING THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY V OF WEST POINT ® Heisler receives Nininger Award (Above) Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy (right), and Todd Browne, West Point Association of Graduates president, present the 2019 Nininger Award to Capt. Lindsay Gordon Heisler, USMA Class of 2012, Oct. 24 during a ceremony in Washington Hall. Heisler received the award for her actions on Dec. 5, 2015, when she was deployed in Afghanistan. (Right) A close-up of the 2019 Nininger Award medal that was presented to Heisler. The award, named after 2nd Lt. Alexander R. Nininger, is given to a USMA graduate who demonstrated exemplary heroic action in battle. Nininger, USMA Class of 1941, was the fi rst Soldier awarded the Medal of Honor for acts of valor during World War II. See Page 3 for story and photos. Photos by Brandon O'Connor/PV 2 OCTOBER 31, 2019 NEWS & FEATURES POINTER VIEW ON POINT: Honoring the 4th Infantry Division Class of 2020 Cadet Akil Johnson, native of Murrieta, California, served and deployed with the 4th Infantry Division from 2013-15 as the brigade S-2. Johnson’s best memory of his time with the 4th Infantry Division... “I had a lot of great mentors and friends when I served with 4th ID. When I deployed I got to learn about my job and what it meant to be enlisted. Although I was a private, I didn’t have anyone holding my hand so it was a great learning experience. My best memory was when we came back from deployment and there were people on the streets waving and cheering for us as we arrived back on post. My mom had flown out from California to welcome me home and I felt very accomplished.” (Editor’s Note: Each week during the football season, the Army West Point Football team honors a division in the Army by wearing its patch on the team’s helmet and jersey. This week against Air Force, the team will honor the 4th Infantry Division and we highlight one cadet who served in its ranks.) Country music invades Michie Dierks Bentley (left) and Dustin Lynch take the stage together for one song during Bentley’s Burning Man tour concert Oct. 18 at Michie Stadium. Lynch played prior to Bentley then joined him on stage. Dillon Carmichael opened the concert before the headliners. Photo by Brandon O’Connor/PV 40 Mulberry Street, Middletown, NY 10940 POINTER VIEW ® To subscribe to the Pointer View or The Army civilian enterprise newspaper, the Pointer View, is an authorized publication for members The appearance of advertising in this publication, including inserts or supplements, does not if you have delivery problems, call 845-346-3213. of the Department of Defense. Contents of the Pointer View are not necessarily the official views of, or constitute endorsement of the products or services advertised by the U.S. Army or the Times Herald- Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams Brandon O’Connor endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of the Army or the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Record. Superintendent PV Assistant Editor, 938-3079 The editorial content of the Pointer View is the responsibility of the U.S. Military Academy Public Everything advertised in this publication will be made available for purchase, use or patronage Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt [email protected] Affairs Office, Bldg. 600, West Point, New York 10996, (845) 938-2015. without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, physical handicap, Public Affairs Officer Michelle Schneider The Pointer View is printed weekly by the Times Herald-Record, a private firm in no way connected political affiliation or any other nonmerit factor of the purchaser, user or patron. Eric S. Bartelt PV Staff Writer, 938-3684 with the Department of the Army, under exclusive contract with West Point. The Times Herald-Record is If a violation or rejection of this equal opportunity policy by an advertiser is confirmed, the publisher PV Managing Editor, 938-2015 michelle.schneider@westpoint. responsible for all commercial advertising. will refuse to print advertising from that source until the violation has been corrected. [email protected] edu POINT POINTER VIEW IN FOCUS: HEISLER RECEIVES NININGER AWARD OCTOBER 31, 2019 3 Heisler receives the 2019 Nininger Award for actions in Afghanistan Story and photos by Brandon O’Connor PV Assistant Editor In Capt. Lindsay Gordon Heisler’s mind she was just doing her job. From the moment she began training as an Apache pilot following graduation from the U.S. Military Academy in 2012, it had been ingrained in her that her job was to keep the ground forces safe. Flying 500 to 1,000 feet above the forces operating on the ground, she and her co-pilot are in constant contact with the friendly forces as they “watched their six” for enemy combatants. After deploying to Afghanistan in April 2015 as a first lieutenant for nine months, the operation schedule had become routine. Most nights out of the week were spent on missions protecting helicopters infiltrating ground forces and then watching over the Soldiers as they executed their objective. Eight months in, an enemy contact or two a night was not out of the ordinary. When their mission on Dec. 5, 2015, required her and her co-pilot to clear out an enemy fighting position, it was just another mission on a long deployment. A few hours later, with the Chinook helicopters inbound to pick up the ground force, they engaged with a second Capt. Lindsay Gordon Heisler, U.S. Military Academy Class of 2012, speaks with members of the West Point Women's enemy fighting position. It was just like Soccer team following the 2019 Nininger Award ceremony Oct. 24. Heisler, a four-year member of the team while at countless other missions they had flown in the West Point, received the award for her actions on Dec. 5, 2015, when she was deployed in Afghanistan. proceeding months. Multiple helicopters took damage, but After a couple of recruiting trips to West could have done more to ensure your platoon Then, seconds before the Chinooks touched despite one of the Rangers later describing it Point, Heisler says she realized the opportunity is prepared to take the fight to the enemies of down to pick up the Soldiers on the ground, the as the direst situation he had been pulled out to attend the academy was something she would the United States.” world erupted with enemy fire coming from of, there were no casualties of Soldiers on the regret passing up, so she committed to play Heisler is currently serving as company every direction. Surrounded by mountains on ground or helicopter crews. soccer for the Black Knights. commander over Delta Company, 1st Attack three sides and the desert across the border For her actions that night, Heisler was Soccer brought her to the academy, but soon Reconnaissance Battalion, 82nd Combat into Pakistan on the fourth, Heisler and the awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. On after arriving it was the people and the purpose Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division. second Apache flying that night along with the Oct. 24, she received the 2019 Alexander R. of the academy that kept her at West Point. Chinooks and the Rangers on the ground were Nininger Award for Valor at Arms presented “Pretty soon, you realize that you’re here suddenly under attack from what they would by the West Point Association of Graduates. for a greater purpose,” Heisler said. “You’re later learn were eight different enemy positions. “I was truly honored mainly because I know here on behalf of your country and the United “None of the pilots who were there had some of the stories of people who have won in States Army. The entire time we were here, you seen anything like it before,” Heisler said. “I the past and just to be considered in the same realize that there’s always a bigger picture. It’s picture like Star Wars where you picture laser population as those officers,” Heisler said of never about yourself.” beams. It looks like that under your night vision receiving the Nininger Award. “It was really a Her four years at the academy, whether goggles. It really accentuates any light you see shock when I got the phone call.” it was a game on the soccer pitch, balancing so there are tracers of enemy fire everywhere.” The Nininger Award has been presented tough classes or going through military There was no time to think. While annually since 2006 and honors a West Point training, prepared her to operate in a pressure communicating with the forces on the ground graduate for his or her heroic actions in battle. situation like the one she found herself in above and the other helicopters in the air, Heisler and Heisler is the first female officer to receive the Afghanistan only three years after graduation. her co-pilot Warrant Officer 2 David Woodward award since its creation. “It’s pretty awesome,” Class of 2021 sprang into action and began fighting back. “Seeing a woman up there is kind of Cadet Erynn Johns, a current member of the They placed themselves between the ground uncommon with a lot of our award ceremonies, women’s soccer team, said of seeing a former force and the incoming fire and worked to especially because many of the officers who team member earn the Nininger Award.
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