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Vol. 66, No. 12 Serving the community of the U.S. Military AcademY AT WEST POINT APRIL 2, 2009 West Point’s Rosenberg earns Truman Scholarship From staff reports vice president for recruitment for the PhiDE medical fraternity and plans to spend seven The Harry S. Truman weeks in Africa this summer Scholarship Foundation to volunteer with Operation announced last week that Crossroads Africa. Rosenberg Cow Alexandra Rosenberg of also volunteers at Tripler Army New York City has earned a Medical Center in Hawaii where 2009 Truman Scholarship. her Family lives and studies She is one of 60 students Chinese. from 55 U.S. colleges and The Truman Scholarship universities to be selected for Foundation was established the prestigious scholarship by Congress in 1975 as the Glee Club singing live on TV Sunday and will have the opportunity federal memorial to the 33rd to further her education with president. The foundation The West Point Glee Club, under the direction of Constance Chase (right), a scholarship valued at about awards scholarships for college recently rehearsed with country singer Trace Adkins for their live appearance $30,000 for two years at any students to attend graduate on the 44th Academy of Country Music Awards show Sunday. They are singing accredited university in the school in preparation for careers the refrain to Adkins’ song “Til the Last Shot’s Fired,” which is being sung world. Rosenberg in government or elsewhere in live for the first time during this show. The show, which takes place in Las Rosenberg, a sociology major, plans to public service. The activities of the foundation Vegas, airs live at 8 p.m. on CBS. While in Las Vegas, some of the cadets will earn a master’s degree in public health from are supported by a special trust fund in the join Adkins in taping a segment for “Heart of Hollywood”portion of E!News Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, U.S. Treasury. There have been 2,670 Truman show. E!News is broadcast at 7 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on the E!Entertainment Mass. She also plans to attend medical school Scholars elected since the first awards were network—Channel 44 for West Point viewers with Time-Warner Cable. after graduation. made in 1977. Sg t . Vi n c e n t Fu s c o /DCOMM She is first in her class academically, U.S. Military Academy cadets have earned editor for the political science section of the 27 Truman Scholarships since first competing Weekend yard sale and Cycling Undergraduate Journal of Social Sciences, in 1992. Classic may cause traffic issues Submitted by DPTMS the housing areas,” Joe Senger, operations specialist in the Directorate of Plans, Training, The upcoming weekend looks to be a busy Mobilization and Security, said. one for on-post traffic. “Residents are also reminded that several The West Point Spring Yard Sale takes sporting events are here Saturday including a place from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, so residents baseball doubleheader at noon at Doubleday can expect increased traffic flow throughout Field, a lacrosse game at noon at Michie the installation during those hours. Stadium, a junior varsity lacrosse game at “Residents and guests are reminded to 2 p.m. at Shea Stadium and tennis matches remain cautious while driving in the housing at Malek/Lichtenberg throughout the day. areas since there will be an increased amount While all roads will remain open, traffic in the of vehicle and foot traffic. There will also vicinity of the stadium may be heavy leading be an increase of Military Police patrols in up to game times,” Senger added. West Point hosts the 26th Annual Army Spring Classic cycling event Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s circuit race activities will be at Camp Buckner and on N.Y. Route 293 in the vicinitiy of Buckner. There are two events Sunday—the Individual Time Trial/Hill Climb and the Criterium. The hill climb begins at 7:45 a.m. near Shea Stadium and the route goes WP firefighters control the blaze Dollar$ and $en$e up Stony Lonesome hill, past the Child A Reader’s Guide to the Development Center and then to the back of West Point firefighters extinguish hot spots after a dumpster near MacArthur the ski slope. At 10 a.m., the criterium circuit Barracks caught fire Wednesday morning. No one was hurt in the fire that grew Economic Crisis begins at Shea Stadium. as big as 30 feet high before it was brought under control. Fire investigators Drivers need to be aware of all cyclists on found some hot charcoal briquettes in the dumpster. The briquettes caught post roads throughout the weekend and drive several mattresses in the dumpster on fire, West Point Fire Chief Curt Krieger The first installment of a carefully around the racers. said. Dumpster fires caused by hot briquettes are common at West Point, As a reminder, in accordance with Force Krieger said, adding that soaking briquettes for 24 hours is the best way multi-part series on the to know they are cool enough to throw out. The fire was determined to be economic crisis and what it Protection directives, all vehicles entering post without the proper identification will be accidental, and no criminal charges or investigations are pending, Krieger said. means to all of us, including searched. While the contents of the dumpster were destoyed, the dumpster sustained suggestions from some of Drivers with Department of Defense damage only to its paint. Krieger said the dumpster and its contents will be the West Point community’s stickers and either the common access card turned over to the Directorate of Public Works for cleaning. The last major subject matter experts. or military identification card may want to fire at West Point was May 8 when an extensive fire burned a housing unit come on post through Washington Gate to in Gray Ghost, which displaced four Families. See pages 4-5 See WEEKEND, page 3 Em i l y To w e r /PV 2 April 2, 2009 Community Point-of-View dol employee April is sexual assualt awareness month melvin, 62, dies from staff reports the Americans who voluntarily risk their lives procedures and culture regarding sexual for our country. Every servicemember, starting assault prevention and response,” David S.C. Staff reports April is Sexual with senior leadership, must understand Chu, former under secretary of defense for Assault Awareness the importance of safely intervening and personnel and readiness, said. Annie E. Melvin, 62, a food inspector for Month, which was preventing the crime of sexual assault. Throughout the month of April, several the Directorate of Logistics in the Cadet Mess c r e a t e d t o r a i s e “As the special assistant to the SAAM events are planned around West Point Hall and longtime West Point employee, died awareness and promote superintendent for diversity and human including a poetry contest, a poster contest and March 25, at home in Newburgh. the prevention of resources, I am committed to heightening the distribution to all personnel of individual “She worked in my office since 2004 sexual violence in sexual assault awareness across the West Point touch cards and brochures highlighting the after working in the kitchen as a supervisor America. community and implementing prevention warning signs of potential sexual assault. for many years,” Rosetta Clay, contracting SAAM focuses on fostering awareness policies, training programs, treatment and West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Buster office representative of the Cadet Mess, of the impact sexual assault has on every support of victims and system accountability,” Hagenbeck, Commandant of the Corps of said. “She was a diligent, dependable and community, facilitating awareness of the Col. Jeanette McMahon said. Cadets Brig. Gen. Michael Linnington, Dean faithful employee. She was and always will availability of health services created to The 2009 SAAM campaign was developed of the Academic Board Brig. Gen. Patrick be my Annie Mae. Her presence is greatly offer care and support to victims and to continue the focus on bystander intervention. Finnegan, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson missed.” survivors of sexual assault and encouraging Military members, in and out of uniform, and Garrison Commander Col. Dan Bruno Melvin was the widow of Charles Melvin communitywide prevention. share a special relationship that calls for the encourage all leaders, civilians, Soldiers and Jr. and a 37-year resident of Newburgh. The theme for this year’s campaign is prevention of this crime before it is allowed cadets to educate themselves about sexual Melvin was a member of the New Day strength is for defending, which highlights the to tear apart a person or unit. assault, promote SAAM and participate in all Tabernacle Church, Plattekill. fact that the Army’s mission not only involves “SAAM provides a golden opportunity activities. For more information, visit www. She is survived by her daughter Angela national defense but the defense and safety of for all commanders to address policies, sapr.mil or www.nsvrc.org/saam. Watford and husband, John ‘Stone’ of Montgomery; granddaughter, Shannon Oates of Newburgh; eight brothers and 11 Be prepared for the unexpected—floods sisters, two sisters-in-law; and several nieces, nephews, her church Family and many By christine guerriero Excessive rainfall in a short period may information. friends. directorate of Plans, training, also stress local drainage systems leading to • Flood warning––Flooding is occurring Visitation and services were held mobilization and Security localized fl ooding. Dams may also fail and or will occur soon. If advised to evacuate, do Wednesday at the New Day Tabernacle Church cause fl ooding. so immediately. in Plattekill. Interment was also Wednesday at Flooding is one of the most common Be aware of the potential fl ood hazards • Flash flood warning––A flash flood Cedar Hill Cemetery in Middlehope. hazards in the United States. Flood effects where you live, especially if you live in a low- is occurring. Seek higher ground on foot can be local, impacting a neighborhood or lying area, near water or downstream of a dam immediately. If you must evacuate, part of community or very large, affecting entire and maintain adequate survival gear. your emergency preparedness plan should Volunteer Speakers cities, river basins and multiple states. Visit the Emergency Preparedness Tips include being able to: needed for For assistance with flood emergency Web page at www.usma.edu/Garrison/ • Secure your home or offi ce. If you have preparedness planning, review the following sites/directorates/dptms/cepip/ for Family, time, move important items and furniture to memorial day events information. All fl oods are not alike. Some business and pets/animal preparedness upper fl oors. Local communities are starting to floods develop slowly, sometimes over a guidelines. • Turn off utilities (gas, water, electrical) make their Memorial Day plans now period of days. Learn the following terms to help identify at the main valves or switches, if instructed to and speakers are needed. Flash fl oods, on the other hand, develop fl ood hazards. do so. Disconnect electrical appliances only Volunteers should contact Dave quickly, in as little as minutes and without • Flood watch––Flooding is possible. Tune if you are not standing in water. Brzywczy at 938-3614 or via e-mail any signs of rain. Flash fl oods often have a to the local weather channel, commercial • Grab your survival gear. at [email protected]. dangerous wall of water that carries rocks, radio or television for information. • Do not walk through moving water. A basic speech, which can be mud and other debris that can destroy • Flash fl ood watch––Flash fl ooding is Six inches of water can make you lose your tailored for personal use, will be anything in its path. possible. Be prepared to move to higher footing and fall. If you must walk in water, provided by Department of the Flooding occurs when rivers or streams ground. Listen to ther local weather walk where the water is not moving. Use a Army. exceed their banks or levees are breached. channel, commercial radio or television for See floodS, page 3 remember, the aer campaign SharP The members of the Sexual Harrassment/Assault Response and Prevention program are Col. Jeanette McMahon, runs through may 1 Shelley Ariosto (Garrison), Dan Toohey (Victim Advocate), Maj. Maria Burger (USCC), Capt. Vanara Nevels (ODIA) and Maj. Elizabeth Scioletti (Dean). Community members can e-mail McMahon at [email protected] for advice or to offer any recommendations on the program here. Cadets also can call the sexual assault support helpline at (845) 591-7215. West Point Soldiers and civilians needing assistance can call (845) 938-3369.

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Induction Ceremony is a tradition that dates back to the late 1980s and celebrates the joining of the newly promoted Should the yard sale be delayed by rain until sergeants into the ranks of professional noncommissioned officer corps. It recognizes the transition of a Sergeant from May 9, the same force protection measures “just one of the guys or gals” to a noncommissioned officer. Inductees are, from left, Sgts. Nathan Lunsford, Military will apply, but the traffic complications may Police company; Stephanie Denis, Medical Activity; Teresa Rivera, MEDDAC; Noah Evans, MEDDAC; Samuel Vass, include other activities on post. MP; Scott Issler, Warrior Transition Unit and Andrea Thompson, MP. Ka t h y Ea s t w o o d /PV Contact Senger at 938-8859 for more information. 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Women’s History Month Yearlings Ami Patel (left) and Margaret Susman discuss today’s cadet life with retired Col. Christine Gayagas, West Point class of 1984 and women’s swim team captain, before the Women’s History Month observance luncheon Monday. Gayagas was the guest speaker for the event, which was sponsored by West Point’s Equal Opportunity Office and the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic. The cadets are holding a helmet and sword that represent the Goddess Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom, and the symbol for the insignia of the Women’s Army Corps. Ma j . Ma r i a Bu r g e r /USCC 4 April 2, 2009 Local and National News Experts: Economic situation caused by good intentions Legislators also put pressure on banks. They could open Homeowners started to buy second houses based on Dollar$ and $en$e new branches as long as they provided a certain percentage the equity in their first house. Many were determined to A Reader’s Guide to the Economic Crisis of loans to people who wouldn’t necessarily qualify for them flip homes, especially in vacation areas such as Florida and otherwise. southern California. (Editor’s note: The Pointer View presents a special series “The government is now getting involved in private “This is all setting up a catastrophe,” Williams said. about the current economic crisis, its causes, the impact it enterprise,” Williams said. “We were going along assuming home prices can’t go down has on the world and possible solutions. The series contains Waiting in the wings were mortgage brokers, who set across the board, and that’s exactly what happened. It’s called interpretation of facts by experts and is not intended to be up mortgages for homebuyers and then sold them to banks. systemic risk, (a threat to the national system.)” commentary about any political affiliation and does not The larger the mortgage, the necessarily reflect the official view of West Point, the U.S. heftier the commission. There Military Academy. This is the series’ first story and discusses was little incentive to keep causes of the crisis.) mortgages reigned in to what people actually could afford, Story, graphic and photo illustration by Williams said. Emily Tower This was particularly painful Staff Writer for people with adjustable- rate mortgages. When interest This is a tale of an economic crisis, one of financial cycles rates rose, these mortgage and good intentions turning sour. It reads like a novel that holders could not make their hasn’t quite reached its potential happy ending. monthly mortgage payments. Now every person on the planet is affected. And experts The adjustable-rate mortgages believe we could be headed for one of the worst recessions revealed themselves as wolves in 70 years. in sheep’s clothing. But, in the beginning, it The flawed assumption all worked. Homeownership It began more than a decade ago. was rising rapidly. The long- Government officials hoped to extend the American dream term result, however, was the of homeownership to everyone. opposite of what was supposed “It’s a laudable goal,” Maj. Blair Williams, a U.S. Military to happen. Academy assistant professor of economics, said. “If you build equity, you feel richer, and you are richer because you can The beginning of the end A nationwide trend borrow against the value. It’s a good goal if you assume a A few years after this all started, Internet stocks began to A few years after low interests rates accomplished the slow, steady increase of home prices.” fall in 2000-01. mission of jumpstarting spending, the Federal Reserve began That assumption has proved to be the error that flung the “And then you get the double-whammy of 9/11,” Williams to increase interest rates to quell inflation, Maj. Travis Habhab, country into a spiral of dire economic conditions, Williams said, referring to the stock tumble after the Sept. 11, 2001, USMA finance and economics instructor and officer-in-charge said. terrorist attacks. of the Finance Investment Club, said. The hope was the exact opposite––that more homeowners To help jolt the economy back to life, the Federal Reserve “This raised the rates of adjustable loans, and monthly bills would equal more spending, which would produce a growing, began lowering interest rates, Williams said. started going up,” Habhab said. “A lot of people couldn’t make robust economy and all the benefits that accompany such “It became a lot cheaper to buy things on credit, so it got their new housing payments, and that led to more defaults.” economic health. people buying again,” he said. Especially as the sheep’s clothing came off adjustable-rate It probably would have worked, too. But, the major Mortgages became even cheaper, and teaser-rate mortgages loans and they were revealed to be a poor choice for budgeting, factor of home prices falling too rapidly––along with some entered the picture. more and more houses had to be sold––either by homeowners, ideas that began as good intentions but quickly proved to be These mortgages mean owners are really leasing their banks or government-backed enterprises. poor ideas––killed that hope, the Dept. of Social Sciences homes because they pay interest, not principal, and interest The very thing the country’s hopes were pinned upon instructor said. rates are adjustable, Williams said. disappeared. The thing that would keep everything healthy To help make homeownership a reality, the as long as it didn’t happen did. federal government allowed lenders to relax a A flooded market caused home prices to drop number of mortgage rules to allow people to everywhere. obtain mortgages who would not have qualified “This led to people owing more than the house under previous screening criteria. was worth,” Habhab said. “They had a decision to Enter the Federal National Mortgage make––continue to pay on a house that isn’t worth Association and the Federal Home Loan that much, or do you default? A lot of people chose Mortgage Corp., better known as Fannie Mae to default.” and Freddie Mac. Banks and investment companies that bought These organizations, known as government- mortgages from mortgage lenders relied on interest backed enterprises, were supposed to protect to make money, Williams said. Defaults on payments banks from the damage of homeowners meant a decrease in income. defaulting on their mortgages by purchasing Investment companies make money from foreclosed houses from the bank and then selling collateralized debt obligations, which Williams them, hopefully, for a profit. described as a bottle filled with mortgages, credit “If I want a $400,000 house, but I can’t card debt and other loans purchased from banks. afford it, the mortgage lender would say, ‘No As interest from the loans comes in, the “bottle” worries? If it gets repossessed, (one of the overflows, and the excess can be used to purchase government-backed enterprises would) just more “bottles” of investments. There is a risk of sell it and make a profit,’” Williams said. “This default, Williams said, but only a few loans per assumes the value of homes is going up.” “bottle” typically are expected to default. Knowing such enterprises would back up “In the last 70 years, there have been fluctuations mortgages, Williams said, created what’s known in housing prices, but they were regional,” Williams as a “moral hazard” in the insurance world––the said, adding that the only other nationwide drop in idea that people will take more risks if they home prices took place during the Great Depression. know they or their property is insured. “These ‘bottles’ are filled with mortgages from all “The banks said, ‘The government is insuring over the country. The odds of them all going belly-up us, let’s generate more mortgages,’” Williams at the same time are small.” said. “And remember, the key assumption is that But when mortgages did default all over the price of homes never goes down.” the country, the “bottles” stopped overflowing. Plus, legislators pressured Freddie Mac Because they were no longer producing revenue, and Fannie Mae to lower credit criteria to no one wanted to buy them, and they became allow more people to qualify for mortgages. what are known as toxic assets––investments that Consequently, homeowners then purchased have uncertain value, Williams said. All the while, houses beyond what they could realistically investment banks bought insurance called credit afford, Williams said. See ECONOMY, page 5 Community Features and Photos April 2, 2009 5 ECONOMY, cont. from page default swaps to protect against the default of mortgages. A depression lasts longer than a recession and has farther- and national security at the expense of social spending, As the “bottles” became worthless, these insurance contracts reaching consequences, Habhab said. But, if the situation slips Williams said. became more than the insurance companies could bear, which further into the vortex, the results could be cataclysmic–– “The result is a very unstable international situation,” led to the trouble for insurance giant AIG. economically and politically––because of the idea of a global Williams said. “Now the banks are strapped for cash,” Habhab said. “This economy, Williams said. is one of the things that led to regular companies failing. Since Two billion people have been lifted out of poverty The road ahead the banks don’t have as much money, they aren’t lending as worldwide because of globalization, Williams said. And the But, a global collapse could be avoided. Recent recessions much. That means it is hard to get credit. The banks become more people connected to the source of the problem means a have lasted about two years, Habhab said, but the credit very careful about whom they lend to.” larger impact of consequences. crisis––the lack of money banks have to issue credit––might Less credit means less spending, Habhab said. With that, “The more people you have in a room, the easier it is to make this recession more severe. even those who have not defaulted on mortgages begin to catch a cold,” Williams said. “The scary part about this is the “This will be tougher to get out of, but I don’t think it will feel the pinch. impact on developing countries. If we sneeze, they get the flu. be severe enough to be a depression,” Habhab said, because “Whoever is selling houses or bottles of water, it doesn’t If we get the flu, it’s like they get pneumonia. the government learned lessons from trying to fix the Great matter what it is, isn’t selling as much,” Habhab said. “So, “If the global economy falters, many may fall back Depression and hopefully will avoid those mistakes again. the consumer is buying less. In order for the seller to stay into poverty,” Williams continued, “which could lead to in business, they have to cut jobs. That leads to less money malnutrition, lack of health care, bad drinking water. Millions being spent.” of people could be adversely affected.” And because free government tends to follow free trade, COMING NEXT A global crisis countries may question their recent embrace of democracy, The result can be devastating. creating a political risk, Williams said. “You have a spiral of lowering prices and cutting jobs, Widespread unemployment––the U. S. unemployment rate Dollar$ and $en$e and you get into a vortex you can’t get out of,” Williams said. is about 8 percent––tends to lead to governments taking over A Reader’s Guide to the Economic Crisis “That’s what happened during the Great Depression.” businesses, Williams said. The country currently is in a recession, which Habhab “That leads to decisions based on politics, which is not will examine the recent stimulus bill and defined as a decline in the Gross Domestic Product for two efficient,” Williams said. “As the economy goes down, you how it is designed to help the economy successive quarters resulting in lower wages and lost jobs. The have social unrest.” Commerce Department defines GDP as the market value of the Tax bases shrink, and governments in a pinch historically get stronger. final goods and services produced within the country. have spent what little money is available on arms build-ups 6 April 2, 2009 Community Features and Photos Combat weapons team set to defend title Story and photo by further test skills by being at the far ends of a Emily Tower weapon’s effective distance, Graves said. Firstie Taylor Murphy Staff Writer The USMA team also competes while practices shooting a 9 mm wearing individual body armor systems and pistol March 26 at Tronsrue The West Point Combat Weapons Team kevlar helmets, which are not required for Marksmanship Center to has quite a bit at stake this weekend when they competitions. But, because competitions get ready for the Joint meet Navy and the Coast Guard Academy. mimic real combat, which will require the Service Academy Combat Not only are they defending the Joint heavy protective gear, cadets on the team Weapons Championship Service Academy Combat Weapons like to be as realistic as possible so their sport this weekend. Murphy and Championship title they have won eight translates into military training, too. the rest of the Combat times in the last 10 years, including last year, “They are paper targets now, but one day, W e a p o n s T e a m w i l l the team has to maintain their new standing they could shoot back,” Graves, who is prior compete against Navy and as the best in the entire Army. service, said. “We want to do well and win and the Coast Guard Academy “We have to have a warrior mindset,” represent the academy well, but later, we want to defend last year’s title. Firstie Andy Beckwith said. “We leave to make a difference on the battlefield.” our egos back in our rooms. This is a new With so much on the line––future competition.” leadership and tactical skills, defending titles, The team won it all at the Army beating Navy––the team’s members have Marksmanship Unit’s Small Arms managed to keep what’s important in check. Championship in February at Fort Benning, “We don’t really have time to be nervous,” Ga. And if they can beat the best in the Army, Cow Tom Olmstead said. “We focus on growth. the team is hopeful they will defend their title That’s a big key to doing competitions. If I can in the service academy match this weekend. line up what I need to improve on and work “We really want to maintain our success on those things, I’m already a success.” and not let it go to our heads,” Firstie Trevor Still, they are fully aware of one of their Graves said. most important tasks when they arrive at the The team comprises 25 cadets and competition in Connecticut this weekend––to competes with rifles, shotguns and pistols beat Navy. The interservice competition is to test skills with paper targets and combat usually held at a neutral range or gun club and scenarios. this year will be at the Hartford Gun Club. The During the combat scenarios, competitors U.S. Air Force Academy is not participating, might have to fire at stationary and moving but the U.S. Coast Guard Academy team targets, enter and exit simulated vehicles or is. However, the cadets see Navy as their helicopters and move simulated casualties, primary rival. Graves said. “This is the culminating competition,” “It helps to be quick on your feet,” he Graves said. “We walk around campus all the said. time saying ‘Beat Navy.’ This is paramount All the while, the scenarios are set to to us.” Community Features and Photos April 2, 2009 7 NCOs volunteer counseling skills to cadets (Editor’s note: In honor of to practice counseling someone the Year of the Noncommissioned else,” Maj. Darcy Schnack, PL Officer, an Armywide celebration 300 instructor, said. “The cadets in 2009, the “Pointer View” is don’t normally get a lot of time presenting a series of stories about with NCOs, so we thought asking the NCOs at West Point. For more for volunteers and having the information about the Year of cadets counsel actual NCOs would the NCO, visit www4.army.mil/ help the cadets learn from these yearofthenco/home.php.) professionals.” This year also is the Army’s Year Story and photo by of the NCO, which places special Emily Tower recognition on the knowledge and Staff Writer experience in the professional NCO corps. For a few minutes, Cow Ezra Sergeant Joshua Plouffe, a medic Swanson was faced with quite a who portrayed the Soldier with a leadership puzzle last week. childcare conundrum for Swanson’s He hasn’t been a platoon leader lab, helped Swanson understand that yet. Still, he took the role of one most Soldiers want to do their jobs, March 26 for a class project. Swanson but sometimes, circumstances take also had to compassionately solve a their attention elsewhere. problem about childcare though he Each cadet in PL 300 received has no children of his own. a few sentences describing their One of his pretend platoon’s lab’s scenario and had to discover noncommissioned officers needed the root of the challenge by chatting help. with the NCO they counseled. Sergeant 1st Class Eric Stafslien, tactical noncommissioned officer for Company F-1, explains As a single father, the NCO Swanson knew Plouffe’s character counseling forms to Cow Zack Enlow after a role-playing exercise March 26 during which Enlow, wanted out of charge-of-quarters didn’t want to fulfill his portion of portraying a platoon leader, counseled Stafslien, who played a platoon sergeant, to find out why duty because he didn’t have a the CQ roster. He knew about the Stafslien's character was falling behind in tactical proficiency. Enlow and other U.S. Military babysitter. childcare problem. But from there, Academy cadets studying military leadership in the Dept. of Behavioral Science and Leadership What was Swanson supposed he had to find a solution that helped had to complete mock counseling to help learn good counseling techniques. NCOs from across to tell the Soldier who wanted to everyone. West Point volunteered to play NCOs in need of counseling for the exercise and provided feedback complete his duty but also care Unfortunately, Swanson made to the cadets from their experiences. for his daughter, especially after an incorrect promise. If Plouffe’s Cow John Gibson, like tired of being an infantryman and charge. listening to higher headquarters make-believe daughter could not be Swanson, also made a couple of wanted “to blow stuff up,” Mays, Mays and Plouffe volunteered speak about the importance of enrolled in adequate childcare, his rookie mistakes in his counseling tactical NCO for Company A-3, to help with the lab because they Family? character no longer had to do CQ. lab during which he had to find out said. Still, his new unit required know being in the Army has given When Swanson gets to his first But that was the lab’s whole point— why a Soldier seemed to no longer infantry tasks. them experience they can share with unit after graduation, he’ll have learning effective counseling. be part of the team. “They told me I could drive the cadets. to solve problems just like the “You gave up too quickly on “This (lab) is really helpful around in this cool gun and blow “I’m not sure cadets get to childcare one, so he and other cadets not having to do CQ,” Plouffe told because we are going to have to stuff up,” Mays said in character. see enough from our side of the taking the U.S. Military Academy Swanson during the lab’s after- counsel (as lieutenants), but if we “Now you’ve got me riding around spectrum,” Plouffe said. “More Dept. of Behavioral Science and action review. “Make the person do it the right way, we’ll be more in the same Humvee doing the same enlisted interaction should help Leadership’s military leadership feel like a part of the team and not effective,” Gibson said. “The trust stuff.” them be more well-rounded when class (PL 300) worked through an like they are putting the burden on will be there, and when things get Gibson initially said he’d try they graduate.” NCO counseling lab. their battle buddies.” tough, our Soldiers will be more to get this NCO reassigned, but Cow Zack Enlow was thrilled NCOs from across post Swanson was delighted he could willing to get the job done.” as Mays explained that’s hardly with the opportunity to learn from volunteered to act out counseling learn from his mistake and from Gibson’s scenario involved a feasible, the two worked together NCOs. scenarios with cadets and provide wise NCOs. seasoned Soldier who seemed to to determine the best solution to “This is valuable even though feedback after mock counseling “It’s important to have this no longer care. After some careful the problem. it’s pretend,” he said after working sessions to help the future feedback,” Swanson said. “These questioning, he discovered the Mays praised Gibson’s and through a scenario with Sgt. 1st lieutenants learn and practice NCOs have been through this NCO, played by Master Sgt. Jeffery Swanson’s ability to find the root Class Eric Stafslien, TAC NCO for effective counseling and problem- already and can give us good Mays, was tired of infantry tasks. of the problem by demonstrating a Company F-1. “We get to interact solving skills. feedback on what makes a good The NCO had recently re- key part of good leadership––truly with NCOs, and that is going to “We teach a couple of blocks counselor.” enlisted to be an artilleryman, was caring about the Soldiers in their make us better in the long run.” about counseling and want the cadets 8 April 2, 2009 Community Features and Photos Cadets experience culture and promote goodwill abroad (Editor’s Note: In the Affairs, said. next two issues, the Pointer The program, run by View will highlight cadets International Affairs, is who traveled to foreign designed to expose cadets to service academies with a other cultures and promote KOREA photo page.) goodwill between USMA and service academies of allied Staff Reports nations. Cadets visited Argentina, Fifty-four U.S. Military Belgium, Brazil, Chile, El Academy cadets traveled to Salvador, Egypt, France, 26 countries during spring Germany, Greece, Guatemala, break, March 16-20, to visit India, Japan, Jordan, other service academies as Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, part of the USMA Foreign Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Academy Exchange Program, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia, Carol Miller, G3 (Operations) Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey and Deputy Chief of International Uruguay. PORTUGAL

Yearlings Duk Lee (right) and Jung Han visit Panmunjom while in Korea. They are pictured with Capts. Paul Seo and Andrew Aiken, USMA class of 2004 and 2005, respectively. Standing behind the four of them are two North Korean soldiers watching them through binoculars. Co u r t e s y p h o t o PERU

Cow Emily Simmons (middle) and Yearling Tjolanda Sullivan meet with Lt. Gen. Fernando Mauel Paiva Monteiro, commandant of Academia Militar in Portugal. Co u r t e s y p h o t o

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Yearling Paul Peterson and Firstie Jared Nielsen traveled to Cusco in the mountains of Peru where they visited the historic Inca sites around the city as well as visited Machu Picchu (background), one of the seven wonders of the world. Their days were filled with tours while their nights were filled with exciting city life and experiencing the culture. During their visit, they toured many churches, cultural museums and military museums to get a taste of the history of Peru. While in Lima, Peterson and Nielsen learned what the daily life of a cadet is like as well as visited some of the schools that train soldiers of different branches. They got to shoot a rifle (the Alil from Israel) and see old-style cavalry horses as well. They also visited El Palacio de Gobierno del Peru (Peru’s equivalent of the White House). Co u r t e s y p h o t o At Your Leisure April 2, 2009 9 What’s Happening Cheerleading clinic the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery is invited to attend the garrison Eileen Ellingsen at 938-3506 or Robertson was killed in Iraq West Point children are invited Center and Fort Bliss, Texas, is retirement ceremony at 3:30 p.m. [email protected]. when his son was only 2 months to attend a cheerleading clinic with scheduled to be speaker. April 9 at Eisenhower Hall’s Crest old. Firstie Daniel Krieger, who the Rabble Rousers from 9:30-11 For more information and for Hall. Reception volunteers served in Iraq in Robertson’s squad a.m. Saturday at Christl Arena. tickets, contact Capt. Vidal Chavez Volunteers are needed to serve before coming to the U.S. Military The clinic is free with the at 938-2110 or vidal.chavez@usma. Earth Day celebrations beverages and snacks at four Academy, set up a trust fund for purchase of a ticket to the Army- army.mil. West Point’s Directorate of receptions at Qtrs. 100 hosted by Robertson’s son. Bucknell Lacrosse game, which Public Works and Balfour Beatty West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. A group of about 50 cadets takes place at noon Saturday. Special Olympics volunteers LifeWorks are hosting essay and Buster Hagenbeck and his wife, already has committed to Discount tickets are available Volunteers are needed to help poster contests and a Recycle Center Judy, to honor graduating cadets participating. for clinic participants. with the Special Olympics, which open house in honor of Earth Day. and their Families and guests. For information about how to The clinic will be taught by takes place April 25 at West Point. The essay contest is open to Receptions are scheduled for 1-2:30 participate or support the cadet the 2008 national championship Sign up at http://usma-portal/ fifth-eighth graders, and the poster p.m. and 3-4:30 p.m. May 20 and runners, contact Krieger at daniel. runner-up squad. Participants will collab/uscc/corpsofcadets/Lists/ contest is open to kindergarteners- 21. [email protected]. cheer at the lacrosse game following Special%20Olympics%20 fourth graders. The reception will be the official the clinic. Sign%20Up/overview.aspx. All contestants must be children duty station during the time of Baggers needed To register for the clinic, e-mail of active-duty or retired military or volunteering for civilian employees. The West Point Commissary is [email protected] or call Volunteers needed DOD civilian employees. Maximum To sign-up, call 938-5698. accepting applications for baggers. 938-2294. Participants should bring Crew, fencing, volleyball, word count for essays is 200, and Call 938-3663, ext. 202 for more soft rubber tennis shoes. martial arts, sailing, Nordic ski and posters cannot be larger than 18 Former members of the 2nd information. men’s team handball competitive inches by 20 inches. (Indianhead) Division Yard sale club teams all need volunteers to The theme for both contests is The 2nd (Indianhead) Division Logistics workshop The semi-annual West Point yard become officer-in-charge. energy conservation. Entries must Association is searching for anyone The 2009 Life Cycle Logistics sale is scheduled for Saturday. For more information, contact be submitted by Tuesday at the who served in the 2nd Infantry Tools Workshop and User’s The rain date is May 9. Maj. Khahn Diep at 938-2340 or West Point Middle School office, Division at any time. Group Conference and Seminar [email protected]. the LifeWorks office or the West For information about the is scheduled for May 12-14 in Night of dance Point Youth Center. Prizes will be association and annual reunion Huntsville, Ala. The West Point Christian West Point Egg Hunt awarded during the Recycle Center Aug. 23-27 in Tacoma, Wash., visit The conference is scheduled Fellowship Gospel Service presents The West Point chapter of Open House from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. www.2ida.org or write to P.O. Box to include several speakers and its inaugral “Dance Unto Him” Daughters of the United States April 17. 218, Fox Lake, IL 60020-0218. roundtable discussions about night of dance at 6 p.m. Saturday at Army is hosting the West Point Egg For more information and a documents, analyzing lifecycle the Community Post Chapel. Hunt at 2 p.m. April 11 at Trophy complete list of contest rules, contact PWOC spring session costs and logistics management Admission is free. Point. Martha Hinote at 938-4407 or Jodi The Protestant Women of the tools. For more information, contact All West Point children 10 and Gellman at 446-6407. Chapel is beginning its spring For more information Kamilah Todd at 446-3809. younger are invited to attend and session. and to register, visit www. must be accompanied by an adult. American Red Cross youth The group meets for fellowship logisticsengineers.org. Register Art exhibit Children should bring a basket and volunteers and small group Bible study from by April 10 for a discount. The West Point Class of 1929 can meet the Easter Bunny. Students 14 years and older are 8:45-11 a.m. Wednesdays and 7-9 Gallery is presenting a reception Pets are not allowed. invited to become American Red p.m. Thursdays at the Post Chapel Retirement cookout featuring works by the late Lucille For more information, call Amy Cross youth volunteers to assist at on Biddle Loop. Free child care is The public is invited to a cookout Devereaux from 2-4 p.m. Sunday. Robert at 446-2939 or Gwenn West Point blood drives and the available. in honor of retired Lt. Col. Jim The exhibit remains up through Wallace at 446-5708. West Point Red Cross office. For more information, call Robin Flowers to recognize his retiring as May 24. Youth volunteers must submit Meyer at 446-8798. head Army softball coach following The gallery is located on the Art therapy an application and a signed parental the last home game April 26. fifth floor of Eisenhower Hall. All female combat veterans in consent form and attend a mandatory Charity marathon The cookout will take place at the West Point area are invited to orientation. The West Point community about 2:30 p.m. at the Army Softball Historic preservation lecture attend free art therapy from 1-3 Contact Katya Viar at 859-4437 is invited to participate in the Complex. Roger Wood, an architect and p.m. Wednesdays at Buffalo Soldier or [email protected] for more Potomac River Run marathon to R.S.V.P. to alex.heidenberg@ preservationist, will be speaking Pavilion. information. raise money for the son of Sgt. usma.edu to ensure there is enough about the importance of historic Therapy will be facilitated by Students who are not registered Michael Robertson May 3. food. preservation as a tool for economic Deborah Farber. volunteers will not be allowed and community growth at 3 p.m. For more information or to to volunteer at upcoming blood Sunday at the Captain David register, call 938-0353. drives. Crawford House in Newburgh. NOW SHOWING The house will be open for tours Community grants, West Point School Board in the movie theater at Mahan Hall, Bldg. 752 1-4 p.m. Sunday. The presentation scholarships elections is free to attend for members of the The West Point Women’s An election to fill three vacancies Friday -- The Pink Panther 2, PG, 7:30 p.m. Historical Society of Newburgh Club is accepting applications for on the West Point School Board is Saturday -- Inkheart, PG, 7:30 p.m. Bay and the Highlands. community grants and scholarships scheduled for May 13. Saturday -- Push, PG-13, 9:30 p.m. For more information, call 561- for continuing education and high All interested members of the Th e t h e at e r s c h e d u l e a l s o c a n b e f o u n d a t 2585 or e-mail historicalsocietynb@ school seniors. West Point community are invited w w w .a a f e s .c o m yahoo.com. Download applications at www. to run. westpointwc.com, and e-mail Petitions will be available at the Army Family Team Building [email protected] for more superintendent’s office, Bldg. 705; AFTB level II classes will be information. Youth Services, Bldg. 500, and the Command Channel 8/23 held 9 a.m.-noon Monday and April Directorate of Family and Morale, 13 in Bldg. 626, Second Floor—the Fish fry Welfare and Recreation, Bldg. 681, April 2-9 Soldier and Family Assistance Holy Innocents Church, located beginning April 13. • Army Newswatch Center Conference Room. at 401 Main St. in Highland Falls, Completed petitions with the (broadcast times) Contact Megan Calero at 938- is hosting a fish fry from 5-8 p.m. signature of at least one eligible Thursday-Friday, Monday-April 9—8:30 a.m., 1 p.m. 0632 for more information. Friday. voter must be turned into the and 7 p.m. Fried tilapia and catfish, chicken superintendent’s office by April Artillery ball tenders, macaroni and cheese, cole 27. The West Point community is slaw and rolls are on the menu. A School board members are invited to the Saint Barbara’s Day movie will be shown beginning at elected by parents of children Ball from 6-11 p.m. April 9 at the 6 p.m. attending West Point Schools and Grand Ball Room of Eisenhower For more information and to serve for two years, though a two- MARCH share prices (as of 3/30) Hall. purchase tickets, call 446-2197. year commitment is not required. C Fund -- - 0.40 ( 9.1722) Saint Barbara is the patron saint A voting location is to be of artillery. Maj. Gen. Howard B. Garrison retirement ceremony determined. S Fund -- - 0.45 ( 10.7598) Bromberg, commanding general of The West Point community For more information, contact I Fund -- - 0.77 (11.8523) 10 April 2, 2009 At Your Leisure A Spouse’s Point of View Hundreds attend job Army Rats walk to school? What will there be then salute. “And we say ‘yes, sir’, fair hosted by ACS By Janine Boldrin to do––a new trail to hike, stream ‘yes, sir’ and march around until Story and photo by “In preparation for our job fair, to explore, tree to climb? Will it he leaves.” Kathy Eastwood ACS hosted a marketing yourself (Editor’s Note: April is a be hot? Will I have my own room? “That doesn’t sound fun,” said Staff Writer for a second career seminar March chance to recognize the important And how long will it take to get to another children. 19,” Johnson said. “The seminar role of children in military Families Grandma and Grandpa from here? “Oh, but it is,” the girl said. The Army Community Services was for those transitioning from by celebrating the Month of the There are always a million “Because when he turns around to and the Army Career and Alumni the military to civilian employment Military Child.) questions, but I have been lucky leave, we run after him and do this Program hosted a job fair at for all interested officers, I didn’t see how it happened, but that, at least for now, he hasn’t asked behind his back.” the Thayer Hotel Thursday to (noncommissioned officers) and I saw the fallout. The sound of the the hardest question: “Haven’t we She proceeded to make bunny help people in their search for Family members. The lecture is a gasps made me look up from the kiss moved enough?” ears with her fingers and put them employment. must attend for those who are two and drop lane to witness the disaster. For him, our moves are still a up behind another child’s head. They “We had 34 employer recruiters to three years or less from separation At the bottom of the final hill to chance for newness and adventure— all dissolved into laughter. at the job fair (including Home or retirement.” school stood a group of children something that comes along with I smiled at this chance to see Land Security recruiting for border Jennifer Rice, an Army spouse, gathered around an unthinkable being in a military Family. The only military life through the eyes of patrollers and the Charlotte- has been looking for employment sight––birthday cupcakes that had kind of Family he’s ever known. young children––a life where being Mecklenburg Police Department in for four months and said thinking crashed to ground. The other day, I asked my son if called a “brat” isn’t an insult but a Charlotte, N.C.),” Amy-Jo Johnson, positively and being persistent is But instead of sulking and he knew he was an “Army brat.” term of endearment. Employment Readiness program the key. leaving them on the sidewalk, there “A rat. Someone called me a And change may not mean the manager, said. “We had a total of 362 “I’ve applied for non- was a valiant attempt to reload them rat?” end of the world but the beginning people attend the job fair including appropriated-fund and (general into the cupcake carrier by a mother “No,” I said. “An Army brat.” of a new one. Family members, servicemembers, schedule) positions,” Rice said. who was headed down the hill. “Why would someone want to If, one day, all of the moving retirees, (DOD) civilians and our “It’s difficult especially with the The children watched, hopeful be an Army rat?” contributes to any heartache, I will local community members.” reduction in force going on, and for a good outcome. These were I gave up trying to explain it to have to help my children through the Employment Readiness assists there is a lot of competition.” children of military Families and, him. Truth be told, the heft of the challenge of the changes. active-duty Soldiers, DOD civilians Rice said she spends much of her in their world, they had learned to words are still probably beyond my But, for now, I want to hold and Family members achieve career time volunteering for ACS and other pick up the pieces, make do and understanding. I have only lived this onto their excitement. Hang onto goals by hosting seminars in resume West Point organizations, which move on. military life as an adult and his life their games. And hope, along with writing, business writing and job may help her with networking and When I was a child, my parents is a bit of a mystery to me. them, that the cupcakes that tumble fairs. gaining valuable experience. considered purchasing a house During this past summer, some after they trip will taste just as in another town. It was only a neighborhood children sat in our sweet after we pick up the pieces few miles away, but the idea of backyard in a big circle. and move forward up those steep uprooting our Family from the only “Do you want to play Major?” hills—together. house I had ever known was enough asked one of the older children in Janine Boldrin is a writer, a to cause sleepless nights. the group. mother and an Army spouse. To Nine houses later, my own I heard them talking as I sat up contact her about your experiences The ACS Job fair was busy Thursday with community members son references our laundry list of on the porch reading a book. as a military spouse at West Point and others looking for employment. Pfc. Lucien Groleau, of the previous homes by the size of his “How do you play that?” asked e-mail her at janineboldrin@gmail. West Point Military Police Company, talks with Walter Harwell room and the children who lived one of the younger children. com. of Homeland Security who is looking for boarder patrollers. next door. An older girl stood up and put I am in awe of the fact that he her hands on her hips. “Well, the looks forward to the excitement person who is the major stands of the next move (which is always over there,” she pointed outside of Keller Corner looming in his future) and the the circle. “And when he comes Periodic health assessment staff training from 1:30-3:30 p.m. For West Point-area schools, a possibilities that it brings. over to us, we all have to stand up The periodic health assessment Thursdays. physical exam must be completed Will we live where it snows? like this.” is now required annually for On Saturdays, refill prescriptions within one calendar year to be Who will live next door? Will I She put her arms at her sides Soldiers. may be picked up from 8-10 a.m., acceptable. If the physical expires This exam replaces the five-year and new prescriptions may be filled before the beginning of another physical. 10 a.m.-noon. sport, a new exam is required. If no exam has been done in the The pharmacy is closed on This is also the time to review past year, one must be completed Sundays and federal holidays. children’s immunizations and to by July 1. prepare additional documentation To schedule an appointment, call School and sports physicals for the administration of medications 938-7992. The Primary Care Department during school hours or emergency is offering school and sports instructions for children with known Pharmacy hours physicals. allergies. Keller Army Community Those expecting to move this Obtain the necessary forms from Hospital pharmacy window normal summer should schedule a physical the school nurse and bring them to hours of operation are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at their next duty station because physical appointments. weekdays except Thursdays. criteria can differ between school For an appointment, call 938- The pharmacy is closed for districts. 7992.

At Your Leisure April 2, 2009 11 FMWR Blurbs AER campaign 17 and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 18. 5654. If the two sessions reach beginner’s running group April will be presented at the annual Army Emergency Relief Participants must attend both maximum capacity, more sessions 20-May 29. Volunteer Recognition Ceremony campaign will continue through classes. Classes are free and will be will be planned. Beginning runners will work from 9:30-11:30 a.m. April 20 at the May 1. held at Bonneville Cabin at Round toward a two-mile goal. The group West Point Club Grand Ballroom. For more information, contact Pond. Registration is required, and Parenting class will be led by Certified Personal All registered West Point Amy Weyhrauch at 938-5839 or seating is limited. ACS is hosting a parenting class Trainer Andrea Ingram. volunteers are eligible to receive [email protected]. For more information and to about living with teenagers at 6:30 For more information or to these awards. register, call 938-2503. p.m. April 15, 22 and 29 at ACS, sign up, call 938-6490 or e-mail Garrison Golf Scramble Bldg. 622. [email protected]. ACS volunteers Team registration for the Lifeguard training For more information and to Build marketable skills to Garrison Golf Scramble continues The American Red Cross of register, call 938-3921. West Point 5/10k incorporate into your resume through 5 p.m. April 30. Greater New York and West Point Registration for the West Point through volunteering. The scramble is scheduled for FMWR are offering free courses Bunco tournament 5/10k continues through May 15. Opportunities include Financial May 1. The golf course has opened in lifeguarding, cardio-pulmonary A Bunco tournament is scheduled Race day is May 16. Readiness, Employment Readiness, for the season. resuscitation and automated external for 6 p.m. April 16 at the West Point To register online, visit www. Army Family Action Plan and For more information about defibrillator for adults, children and Club. active.com and enter keyword Relocation. Child care costs will golfing or the scramble, call 938- infants in April. No experience is necessary, “west point.” be covered. 2435 or stop by the Pro Shop. All military personnel and their but players must be at least 18. For For more information, call 938- For more information, call 938- Families are invited to attend. information, call 938-8185. 6497. 5658. Bull Pond lottery Classes will be filled on a first- Reservations for Bull Pond are come, first-served basis. Auto safety training Half-marathon training group BOSS resale lot accepted through a lottery system For more information or to West Point Auto Shop, Bldg. FMWR announces a half- Do you have a vehicle you want for active-duty military personnel register, visit www.westpointmwr. 648, is hosting an open house and marathon training group to prepare to sell? Consider the BOSS Resale and cadets only. Military ID is com or call Nicole Rolf at (212) safety training from 3-6 p.m. April runners for the New Jersey half- Lot located in the Commissary required at the lottery. 875-2253. 17. For more information, call marathon May 3. Parking lot. Lottery numbers are available 938-2074. Training for the half-marathon Call 938-6497 for more and can be obtained by calling 938- SFAC April classes continues and the group will meet information. 2503, by visiting Round Pond or at The Soldier and Family Mother’s Day essay contest twice a week for 15 sessions up the lottery, which is scheduled for 9 Assistance Center is offering several The West Point Club’s Mother’s until May 3. CYSS SKIES a.m. Saturday at Bonneville Cabin classes in April. Day Essay Contest is ongoing. All runs are led by Certified Child, Youth and School in the Round Pound Recreation A money management class Write about why your mom is Personal Trainer Andrea Ingram. Services SKIES Instructional Area off N.Y. Route 293. Lottery is scheduled for 10-11:30 a.m. special and why she should be Mom Call the Fitness Center at Program sessions are ongoing. check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. To register, call Clyde of the Year. 938-6490 to sign up or e-mail For more information about The lottery is limited to one Wilson at 938-0629. Send the entry along with a [email protected] CYSS SKIES, visit www. chance per household. If military A class about the Post 9/11 picture of your mom via e-mail or for more information. westpointmwr.com or call 938- personnel or their spouses cannot G.I. Bill is scheduled for 10-11:30 postal mail. Story hour 3727/8893. attend the drawing, they may send a a.m. April 14. To register, call Len Reference “Mother’s Day Story hour at the Post Library is representative with a signed proxy. Gomberg at 938-0631. Contest” on all entries and mail to scheduled for 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. There is a limit of one letter per A job fair preparation class is The West Point Club, 603 Cullum every Tuesday through April 28. proxy. scheduled for 10-11:30 p.m. April Road, West Point, NY 10996 or All West Point children ages Numbers are drawn at random 21. To register, call Peggie Taylor e-mail to nancy.amendola@usma. 3-5 are invited to attend these free until all available dates are reserved at 938-0634. edu. events. Registration is required or all lottery numbers are drawn. All classes are held in the SFAC, The winner will be announced weekly. Lottery winners may reserve the Bldg. 626. Warriors in transition May 1 and will receive a day at For more information, call entire complex or just one cottage. and their Families have priority, but the spa plus four complimentary 938-2974 or stop by the library, Any dates available after the classes are open to everyone, space Mother’s Day brunch tickets for Bldg. 622. lottery will be available to all other permitting. May 10. eligible personnel beginning at 9 Volunteer Recognition a.m. Monday at Round Pond on a Fitness challenge Beginner’s running group Ceremony first-come, first-served basis. All Participants of the FMWR FMWR Fitness will have a The Volunteer of the Year awards reservations require a 100 percent Fitness Center’s Fittest Loser fitness deposit. challenge held January-March lost For more information, visit a combined 226 pounds. www.westpointmwr.com. Winners of the individual points division were Cristyn Scott, Teresa Teen employment classes Ridgeway and Sue Kerns. Employment Readiness for Winners of the team competition Teens class will be held 3:15-4:15 were Team Shattan/Kling. Winners p.m. Tuesday at the Youth Center of the individual weight-loss Technology Center, Bldg. 500. division were Rob Dees, Melanie To register, call 938-3727. Shattan and Elaine Walsh.

Easter brunch Suicide prevention training for Easter Sunday Brunch will be adult Family members held April 12 at the West Point Club. Adult Army Family members are An 11 a.m. seating will take place invited to attend suicide prevention in the Pierce Dining Room, and a 1 training from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday p.m. seating will take place in the at Army Community Services, Grand Ballroom. Bldg. 622. Easter egg hunts are scheduled Military members should have for 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. The had this training already, but they Easter Bunny is scheduled to are welcome to attend. appear. It is not appropriate for children For a complete menu, visit to attend this training. Attendees are www.westpointmwr.com. For responsible for making child care reservations, call 938-5120. arrangements. Call Kim Tague of Child, Youth Hunter safety course and School Services at 938-3921 by West Point Outdoor Recreation Friday to make CYSS child care is hosting a New York state hunter arrangements. safety course from 6-10 p.m. April To register for a class, call 938- 12 April 2, 2009 Army and Community Sports LoRusso continues solid play despite tough losses Story and photos by Colgate. Eric S. Bartelt LoRusso has already tied his Assistant Editor career-high in goals with 12 and has added six assists for a career-high 18 Army lacrosse endured a painful points. The team relies on attackmen ending to last season when it lost 8-7 Firstie Jason Peyer (25 goals) and in the Patriot League Tournament Yearling Jeremy Boltus (18 goals) to semifinal to Bucknell. The Bison score the bulk of the goals; however, (5-5 overall, 3-0 PL) return to the LoRusso has taken it upon himself scene of their April 25 victory as to also be a difference maker on the they face the Black Knights at noon offensive end of the field. Saturday at Michie Stadium. “I started a little slow. I’m not It is clearly a gigantic game sure why but things weren’t going for Army (5-5 overall, 1-2 PL) my way (early in the season) but I as they’re trying to maintain one kept practicing hard and training of the Top 4 spots for PL playoff on my shooting and getting my consideration. teammates involved,” LoRusso, One goal was the difference in who scored only two goals in the last year’s meeting versus Bucknell, first four games, said. “The coaches but one goal has been the bone told me to be more of a threat on of contention of the 2009 Black offense; it’s expected of me. If Knights. I’m playing well and I’m getting Of Army’s five losses this everyone involved then I know the season, four have come by one other guys are going to play well.” goal, including a 10-9 double Army head coach Joe Alberici overtime loss to Colgate Sunday in said LoRusso’s strength is that Firstie midfielder Kevin LoRusso recorded a career-high three goals in the game against Air Force Hamilton. he does everything well, besides March 7. He already has tied his career-high in goals this season with 12. Firstie midfielder Kevin creating offense, no matter if it’s the greatest accolades a coach can really cool. He and I are really close and it put a damper on my spirits LoRusso knows the hurt. He said getting an important ground ball, give a player is to call him a great since we’re only one year apart,” because it was tough watching from it stings a bit to come up short after playing defense or playing a critical leader, and Alberici felt LoRusso LoRusso said. “In high school, we the sidelines.” a closely fought battle, but he also part of the riding and clearing was a captain in waiting since his always played together on teams. Last year’s loss was part of a said the team always refocuses on game. plebe year. Coming to West Point, we were used missed opportunity; with all the the subsequent task at hand—their “(LoRusso’s) play this spring “He’s got a way about him,” to it, but now that I’m playing with accomplishments that LoRusso has next opponent. has been tremendous,” Alberici Alberici said of his captain. “Even Brian and Larry (both plebes) and to achieved on the field, there’s one “When we lose there’s nothing said. “He’s a guy we can put in there as a freshman, I knew he would be have that opportunity to do so really in particular that he’s hungry for we can do about it, so it’s all about the when we need a big defensive stop captain just by the way he carried means a lot to me.” the most. next game and winning that game,” and his offensive production has himself and the type of person he LoRusso’s younger brothers “Hopefully, this year, we LoRusso said. “It’s important to put gone way up. is and his understated way of being both went the same route as he accomplish one of the goals I’ve ourselves in a situation where we “Last year, he had eight goals a leader. When he speaks, the guys did by going to the U.S. Military set, one we’ve been trying to reach can keep winning and move toward and eight assists and he was named are listening because they know it’s Academy Preparatory School before for four years,” LoRusso said, our future goals that we have set as a first-team all conference player. important.” West Point—which gave them time “and that’s making it to the NCAA a team.” That tells you all the other things The future field artillery officer to settle into academy life—but Tournament.” The three-year starter from that he’s doing on the field,” he has experienced many special Kevin still plays the big brother role It’ll be an uphill battle to get Rocky Point, N.Y., is gaining steam added. “This year, he’s already moments on the lacrosse field at and gives them as much advice as to the tournament, especially with this season after a solid 2008 that exceeded his goal production from Army. He’s been a part of victories possible. one devastating defeat in their back earned him first-team All-Patriot last year, so he’s having a good over Navy and Syracuse and has “They come to me a lot and I tell pocket—a 13-12 overtime loss to League midfielder honors. He year on the offensive end while he been victorious in all four games them there’s nothing that they can’t Lehigh where Army led by eight scored a career-high three goals continues to do all the other things against Air Force, but the best part handle when they have problems,” goals late in the third quarter. in a win against Air Force March well, which he’s always done.” of his experience at Army has been LoRusso said. “I’ve gone through “I told the guys we’re not going 7, scored the tying goal to force This season, LoRusso has not the chance to play with his three it, Nick’s gone through it and, to define ourselves by one quarter of overtime in a loss versus Hofstra only put more on his shoulders brothers. hopefully, they can use us as role lacrosse,” Alberici said. “You can March 24 and then had another offensively, but he’s put the onus on “Playing with my older brother models in this respect that, ‘my tell the guys to forget about it, but two-goal game Sunday against himself to be a team leader. One of (Nick, 2007 USMA graduate) was brothers did it, we can do it,’ … it’s a lot easier said than done … but being able to see someone that it happened, and hopefully what it you’re close to get through (West does is it’s used as motivation and Point) probably will help them get gives us a sense of urgency about through it.” the next game.” As LoRusso’s younger brothers So it can be said with a 1-2 adapt to their plebe years, Kevin conference record a sense of has been doing a bit of overcoming urgency has hit the team, and it himself. never hurts—although Alberici LoRusso got injured late last doesn’t believe too much in it—that season in the Navy victory, which the next opponent happens to be a caused him to miss the Bucknell team that ended their season the year playoff game. He tore his hamstring before and revenge is a factor. and missed the game with (then “As the game nears, there firstie) midfielder Paul Wigdzinski will probably be some talk of that might have been the difference (retribution), but quite honestly between a win and loss that day. what happened last year was last With time the hamstring healed, year,” Alberici said. “We won’t be but the loss to Bucknell had a way of focusing on what happened last creating a burr under his skin. year, but if it serves as additional “It was really tough because I motivation for some guys—I’m not wanted to play so bad and having against it. But it’s not going to be a torn hamstring, you can’t really our rallying cry. do too much—I could barely walk “We’re going to have a look at for awhile,” LoRusso explained. “It the situation that we’re in within was a tough game to watch because the league and I think that will we had a great team and we had dictate enough to our guys what our Firstie attackman Jason Peyer leads the team with 25 goals this season, also a career-high. He high expectations. Toward the end motivation needs to be,” he added. has spent five years playing with LoRusso, including one year at the Prep School. of the season we got hit by injuries “I’m sure it will be very high.” Army and Community Sports April 2, 2009 13 Women’s track and field dominates Dick Shea Invitational By Mark Brumbaugh League Female Field Athlete of the preferred,” Engle said. “However, Athletic Communications Week, won the shot put with a top the performances were certainly mark of 42-1 ½. Mallard won the competitive for this point in the The Army women’s track and hammer with a throw of 166-11, outdoor season.” field team turned in a dominant just five inches shy of her personal Stallard won the heptathlon with performance to continue their strong best. 3,873 points while Johnson placed start to the outdoor season with “We were very pleased with second with 3,256 points. individual victories in nine of the performances from the women’s Stallard won five of the events 21 events contested at the Dick throwers,” Engle said. “Geryah while Johnson claimed two. Shea Invitational Saturday at Shea continued to perform well in the Huggins and Stallard also Stadium. shot put while we had some great excelled in the 100-meter hurdles, Firstie Kelcee Moody (discus), performances in the long throws.” placing second (15.49) and third Firstie Geryah White (shot put), The Black Knights also excelled (15.53), respectively. Firstie Cow Kim Mallard (hammer throw), in the jumps and pole vault. DuPree Lauryn Wierda placed fourth in the Yearling LaShaunda DuPree (long tied for the win in the long jump 400-meter hurdles in 1:05.62. jump), Plebe Jari Ross (triple jump), with a top mark of 17 feet, 4 inches Army competed with heavy Yearling Kaci Clark (pole vault), in her first competition of the hearts though as one of the team’s Cow Ebony Thomas (100-meter outdoor season, while Ross won the cadet managers, Tanya Gauthier, dash), Yearling Tonya Stallard triple jump with a top leap of 36-4. was seriously injured in an accident (heptathlon) and the 4x400-meter Cow Angela Jenkins earned Friday night. relay team (4 minutes, 2.70 seconds) fourth place finishes in both the “We had a lot of kids that were all individual winners for triple jump (35-4 ¾) and long jump competed well in the face of concern Army. (16-8 ¾). for their teammate,” Engle said. “There is so much uncertainty Clark placed first and neared her “All of them respect and care about with the weather for this meet, so we personal best in the pole vault with her a lot, so all of us came into the looked at this as our third, hard work a top effort of 10-11 ¾. Teammate morning concerned about the fact out of the meet,” head coach Troy Hallie Huggins tied for second at that she wasn’t with us, and praying Engle said. “All of the athletes had 10-6. that she will be with us soon. We worked out hard this past week, so Both Plebe Christie Johnson want her and her Family to know for us to come out and have some of and Firstie Ellen Sutey neared their that we dedicated (Saturday’s) the performances we had (Saturday) personal bests in the high jump with performance to her.” was exciting.” top jumps of 5-3 to tie for second. Army, College of St. Rose, Cow Ebony Thomas, the reigning Patriot League Female Track Army claimed three wins in the Thomas, the reigning Patriot Columbia, Connecticut, Hofstra, Athlete of the Week, earned a victory in the 100-meter dash with throwing events. Moody performed League Female Track Athlete of Hunter, Iona, Kean, Manhattan, a time of 12.49 seconds. Jo h n Ma l i n o w sk i /G&EnE well in two events, winning the the Week, was victorious in her Marist, Merchant Marine, Mercy, More than 800 people were not feature team scoring as the discus with a throw of 123-5 and first attempt at 100-meter dash this Mohawk Valley Community College, entered in the meet. competitors seek to improve their placing third in the shot put with a season. Monroe, Pace, Ramapo, Raritan The Dick Shea Invitational was performances for the championship mark of 40-11 ¾. Thomas won with a time of Valley Road Runners, Sacred Heart, the lone, regular season home meet meets later on in the season. Cow Amanda Napolitani (fourth, 12.49 seconds. St. Joseph’s, St. Peter’s, Stevens of the year for the Black Knights, Army track and field will 113-3 ½) and Firstie Cynthea Tossie “We lucked out with the Institute, SUNY Delhi and the U.S. but West Point will host the 2009 compete again Saturday at two (fifth, 111-0) also earned Top 5 weather, but there was a little wind Military Academy Preparatory Patriot League Outdoor Track and events, the Auburn Track Classic finishes in the discus. so the sprint performances were a School competed, as well as several Field Championships May 1-2. in Auburn, Ala. and the Penn White, the reigning Patriot little slower than we would have unaffiliated athletes. The Dick Shea Invitational did Invitational in Philadelphia. West Point to host ECAC Gymnastics Championships By Mady Salvani Bloomfield returns on vault along Athletic Communications with William & Mary’s James Prim on still rings and UIC’s Neal An elite group of gymnasts Thompson on parallel bars. will be converging this weekend at A young Black Knight team, Gross Sports Center on the grounds ranked No. 18 nationally (317.35) of the U.S. Military Academy to and sixth in the conference, is compete for the team title at the hoping to turn in a strong showing Eastern College Athletic Conference this weekend. Plebe Chase Brown, Championships and the automatic who competes on floor exercise and bid to the NCAA Gymnastics vaulting, returns after missing the Championships being hosted later majority of the season because of an this month by the University of injury after the opening meet. Minnesota. Yearling Justin Sappington is Temple will be looking to capture Army’s top performer on high bar its third straight ECAC title, but the (13.517), still rings (13.45) and Owls head into the meet ranked third pommel horse (13.50). Yearling Ty in the conference standings with a Smith is ranked among the leaders 334.85 average. Illinois-Chicago, on vault (14.883), floor exercise last year’s third-place finisher at (13.633), still rings (13.433) and the championships hosted at West pommel horse (13.167) along with Point, is the leader with a 336.467 Plebe Tim Tieng on vault (14.783) average followed by William & Yearling Justin Sappington is Army’s top performer on the high bar, still rings and pommel horse and Plebe Jonathan Hoey (13.00) Mary’s 335.467 mark. Navy is this season. Er i c S. Ba r t e l t /PV and Yearling Jonathan Grey (12.983) listed fourth (334.717) followed USA Gymnastics Collegiate Derek Gygax winning the all- more than a week ago. The Black on high bar. by Springfield (329.433), Army Championships last weekend. around title; Richard Pearson, Knights also have been idle since Army’s highest team event is (317.35) and MIT (313.267). The Tribe outpointed defending pommel horse; and James Prim, that meet, while UIC posted a pommel horse where the Black The Owls found themselves in a champion Navy, 337.15-333.75 parallel bars. Navy had a pair of 336.7 in loss over the weekend to Knights are ranked fifth (52.70). similar situation last year, but edged for the team title, while Springfield winners in Dylan Parrott on floor Stanford, the No. 2 ranked team in Tickets can be purchased online the Tribe, 341.45-341.35, to capture and MIT finished fourth and fifth, exercise and Joe Atzenback on high the country. at www.goARMYsports.com, by the title, and both went on to earn a respectively, in the eight-team bar, with Springfield’s Ty Evans Four returning ECAC/EIGL calling 938-2526 or at the Army bid to the NCAA Championships. field. capturing vault. champions will be looking to repeat Ticket Office, located in Holleder William & Mary, Navy, The Tribe crowned three Temple posted a season-high led by Navy’s Adam Stanton, Center, or at Gross Sports Center Springfield and MIT are coming individual champions at the USA 340.8 sweeping a tri-meet with a two-time defending pommel each evening with the doors opening off of strong showings at the Collegiate Championships with Navy and Army in its last outing horse champion. Temple’s Scott at 4:30 p.m. 14 April 2, 2009 Army and Community Sports Pistol team wins national championship By Maj. Paul Johnson behind silver medal winner Navy. Pistol team OIC Firstie Seth Freshly competed as an individual and shot a score With an aggregate score of of 489. 6,259 from three pistol events, The standard pistol event was the Army pistol team took the held March 19. overall championship at the 2009 The event is fired in three phases. National Intercollegiate Pistol A total of 60 shots are fired at a Championships, March 18-20 at target 25 meters away using a semi- the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit automatic .22-caliber pistol. ranges at Fort Benning, Ga. In the precision phase, each Based on scores from sectional shooter fires four strings of five matches held in mid-February at shots each. The competitor has two- colleges around the country, the Top and-a-half minutes to complete each 10 four-person teams in free pistol, string. For the timed fire phase, each standard pistol and air pistol were competitor again fires four strings of invited to compete. five shots within 20 seconds. Going into the national The final phase, rapid fire, is championship, West Point was the similar to timed fire except only 10 third-ranked team in free pistol seconds are allowed to complete behind Navy and Ohio State; the each string of five shots. second-ranked team behind Navy Dowd shot a personal best 555 in standard pistol; and the fourth- out of a possible 600 to lead the ranked team in air pistol behind West Point team. Hudson also shot Ohio State, MIT and Navy. a personal best of 547. Freshly shot In addition to the Top 10 teams a 525, and Yearling Luis Rivas shot invited to the national championship, a 517 for a team score of 2,144. the Top 30 individuals, again based When the gunsmoke had cleared, on sectional match scores, were West Point had won the team gold invited to compete in each of the medal, Dowd had won the individual Firstie Kimberly Schultz, pistol team captain, won a gold medal in sport pistol at the 2009 National three events. West Point had five gold medal and Hudson had won the Intercollegiate Pistol Championships March 18-20 at Fort Benning, Ga. cadets invited in free pistol, five individual silver medal. Ph o t o b y Du s t o n Sa u n d e r s /Pi s t o l c o a c h in standard pistol and four in air Ohio State took the team silver out of a possible 600; Dowd shot a with a score of 6,259. Navy was by winning sport pistol and placing pistol. medal with a score of 2,083, and 543; Moore shot a 538; and team second with a 6,164 and MIT third in Women’s air pistol. Free pistol was the first event Texas A&M’s score of 2,056 was captain Firstie Kimberly Schultz was third with a 6,120. The early “Our cadets did exactly what we of the competition and was held good enough for the bronze medal. shot a 528 for a team score of 2,155 favorite, Ohio State, finished fifth asked them to do,” Pistol head coach March 18. Heading into the air pistol —fifth place for the event. Navy behind the University of Utah. Duston Saunders said. “We knew Free pistol is an Olympic event match—the final event of the 2009 took fourth with a 2,160; MIT took A d d i t i o n a l l y , D o w d if we focused on performance, the in which each shooter has two hours National Intercollegiate Pistol the team bronze medal with a 2,166; won the individual open score would take care of itself.” to fire 60 precision shots at a target Championships—West Point had University of Utah took the team National Intercollegiate Pistol Schultz said national 50 meters down range. Competitors a 100-point lead over arch rival silver medal with a 2,168; and Ohio Championship. competitions bring a lot more use a single shot, .22-caliber pistol Navy, a 150-point lead over the State won the event with a 2,172. His three event aggregate score pressure than regular season for this event. varsity team from MIT, and a The overall national of 1,593 bested Ohio State’s Seth matches, but the team was ready For the West Point scoring team, 200-point lead over Ohio State’s championship is based on the Berglee, last year’s winner, by three for that pressure. Firstie Ryan Dowd shot a 495 out of varsity team. aggregate score of all three events. points. “We kept our composure,” a possible 600. Firstie Cy Hudson Air pistol is an Olympic event in West Point won the overall National Schultz won the two event Schultz said. “The other teams shot a score of 477. Cow Danny which the competitors have 1 hour Intercollegiate Pistol Championship women’s aggregate national title didn’t.” Moore shot a team-high 500, and and 45 minutes to fire 60 precision Plebe Ben Poth shot a 488. shots at a target 10 meters away. With a team score of 1,960, West A single shot .177-caliber air Point earned the team bronze medal pistol is used to shoot at a 10-ring Sports calendar and finished 30 points behind gold smaller than a dime. medal winner MIT and 10 points Hudson shot a team high of 546 April 3-12

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Fr i d a y -- Me n ’s Te n n i s vs . Su n d a y -- Me n ’s Te n n i s vs . Fr i d a y -Su n d a y -- Orienteering La f a y e t t e & Ho l y Cr o ss , N a v y , Li c h t e n b e r g Te n n i s Te a m , Orienteering Sk i l l s Li c h t e n b e r g Te n n i s Ce n t e r , 3 Ce n t e r , 1 p.m. Wo r ks h o p , Ca mp Bu c k n e r , Fr i . & 8 p.m. (4 p.m.), Sa t . (8:30 a.m.) & Su n d a y -- Ba s e b a l l vs . Ho l y Su n . (8:30 a.m.). Fr i d a y -- Gy m n a s t i c s , ECAC Cr o ss , Do u b l e d a y Fi e l d , 1 p.m. Ch a mp i o n s h i ps (Te a m ), Gr o ss (DH) Sa t u r d a y -- Ar m y Cy c l i n g t e a m , Sp o r t s Ce n t e r , 6 p.m. Ar m y Sp r i n g Cl a ss i c , Sh e a Tu e sd a y -- Ba s e b a l l vs . Io n a , St a d i u m /Ca mp Bu c k n e r , 8 a.m. Sa t u r d a y -- Wo m e n ’s Te n n i s Do u b l e d a y Fi e l d , 3:30 p.m. vs . La f a y e t t e & Ho l y Cr o ss , Sa t u r d a y -- Wo m e n ’s La c r o ss e , Li c h t e n b e r g Te n n i s Ce n t e r , 8 We d n e sd a y -- Ba s e b a l l vs . R o u n d Ro b i n To u r n a m e n t Orienteering wins a.m. & No o n . Ma n h a t t a n , Do u b l e d a y Fi e l d , (Rh o d e Is l a n d , Sy r a c u s e & 3:30 p.m. No r t h e a s t e r n ), Da l y Fi e l d , Sa t u r d a y -- Ba s e b a l l vs . Ho l y No o n . The West Point Orienteering team won the 2009 U.S. Cr o ss , Do u b l e d a y f i e l d , No o n Ap r i l 11 -- Wo m e n ’s Te n n i s vs . Intercollegiate Orienteering Championship Sunday in Patapsco (DH). Lo n g Is l a n d , Li c h t e n b e r g Te n n i s A p r i l 11 -- Cr e w Te a m , State Park near Baltimore. The win marks the seventh straight Ce n t e r , No o n . Pr e s i d e n t ’s C u p R e g a t t a (M a r i s t , national championship for the West Point team. Firstie Neal Sa t u r d a y -- La c r o ss e vs . LaSa l l e & RIT), Ca u f i e l d Trump won the varsity male individual competition edging Bu c k n e l l , Michie St a d i u m , Ap r i l 11 -- Ba s e b a l l vs . Na v y , Bo a t h o u s e , 8:30 a.m. out Yearling Jordan Laughlin by 41 seconds. Firstie Michelle No o n . Do u b l e d a y Fi e l d , No o n (DH). Alderson took third place in the varsity female competition Ap r i l 11 -- Wo m e n ’s Ru g b y , while Yearling Mary Ann Thomas took first place in the junior Sa t u r d a y -- Gy m n a s t i c s , ECAC Ap r i l 12 -- Ba s e b a l l vs . Na v y , o pp o n e n t TBD, An d e r s o n Ru g b y varsity competition. Ph o t o b y Ma j . Jo n Ca m p b e l l /Orienteering OIC Ch a mp i o n s h i ps (In d i v i d u a l ), Do u b l e d a y Fi e l d , 1 p.m. (DH). Co mp l e x , 1 p.m.