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Marathon Team Runs West Point Roads to Continue Army-Navy Ball Run Tradition Story and Photos by Eric S DECEMBER 17, 2020 1 WWW.WESTPOINT.EDU THE DECEMBER 17, 2020 VOL. 77, NO. 49 OINTER IEW® DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY PSERVING THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY V OF WEST POINT ® Singing second: Army beats Navy SEE PAGES 4-8, 16 • • The Army West Point football team (above) celebrates after singing its alma mater second signifying its victory over Navy on Saturday at Michie Stadium. In the fi rst Army-Navy Game played at West Point since 1943, during the height of World War II, the Black Knights dominated to earn a 15-0 win. (Left) The Army West Point football team sprints across the Michie Stadium turf to the West Point Band to sing the alma mater. Photos by Class of 2023 Cadet Hannah Lamb (above) and Class of 2022 Cadet Ellington Ward (Left) INSIDE & ONLINE WWW . WESTPOINT . EDU / NEWS POINTER VIEW WWW . POINTERVIEW . COM This is the fi nal Pointer View edition for the 2020 calendar year. There are no new editions while the cadets are on winter break. The newspaper will return Jan. 14, 2021. To all our readers, have a safe and happy holidays! 2 DECEMBER 17, 2020 NEWS & FEATURES POINTER VIEW CEAC groundbreaking: Preparing for tomorrow’s battlefi eld By JoAnne Castagna students and their families will see as they enter U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York West Point’s Central Area,” Silas Bowman, District Public Aff airs Specialist project manager, New York District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said. “The center will be the James Gagliano has carried a valuable gateway to the academic center of West Point lesson with him that he learned 37 years ago as and will stand out as a beacon of gothic beauty a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West on the exterior and the forefront of technology Point. on the inside.” “One of the most lasting and indelible Gagliano can appreciate a new center like images that I have retained since my graduation this for the cadets, being an educator himself. involves a crusty, old senior, non-commissioned He’s an adjunct professor, a doctoral candidate offi cer and Vietnam War veteran who taught and educates the public as an on-air cable news Military Science,” Gagliano said. “He cautioned subject-matter analyst on law enforcement and us young cadets about the old adage — counter terrorism. ‘Generals always fi ght the last war.’” “The 21st century battlefi eld is complex and This means that military strategy often amorphous, which demands that our military focuses on what has happened rather than what leaders have a clear understanding of emergent will happen. threats and process intelligence in terms of “That warning has remained with me across how we can dominate the nebulous realm of The groundbreaking for the construction of the Cyber Engineering & Academic my military and law enforcement careers. I asymmetrical warfare,”Gagliano said of future Center took place Friday at West Point. The Center is expected to be fi nished learned that you have to anticipate what could counter terrorism endeavors. by 2025. Photo by Eric S. Bartelt/PV happen and that imagination and daring are The center will have four fl oors, a multi- “Just as cadets like George Armstrong of West Point with arches, buttresses and a essential leader traits,” said Gagliano, who story underground parking garage and a Custer (circa 1861) trained in equine warfare granite façade, while the interior is high tech has served as a counterterrorism operator in walkway connecting the center to an adjacent — horsemanship and cavalry operations — in and modern,” Bowman said. Afghanistan and as part of the Federal Bureau academic building. the footprint that is Thayer Hall during the Modern also means the building will be of Investigations’ elite counterterror unit. It will house the engineering department Civil War era, cadets today are being exposed energy-effi cient and designed for Leadership Like Gagliano, the academy is also with classrooms for instruction on civil, to robotics and drones, their own version of in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) anticipating what could happen next for its mechanical, electrical and cyber engineering. ‘saddle skills,’” he added. Silver certifi ed. To meet this certifi cation, the cadets. The center will also have laboratories for “Successful interdiction ‘left of boom’ center will have high volume-low velocity fans The academy is working with the U.S. instruction on topics including thermodynamics, requires cutting-edge technological innovations in the Robotics High-Bay Lab and there will be Army Corps of Engineers, New York District biomechanics, weapons, photonics, telecom, for data collection, intelligence gathering and solar panels on the roof. to begin construction on a Cyber Engineering computer, sensors, artifi cial intelligence and weapons delivery. Drones are the answer,” Construction on the center is expected to be & Academic Center (CEAC) that will prepare environmental and energy sustainability. Gagliano said. “They are as necessary and completed in the Summer of 2025. cadets for what comes next. The center will be used for cadets to receive ubiquitous today as pack horses were during The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sees When completed, the center will replace training on robotics and drones and will have a 19th century warfi ghting.” this new academic center as an important way outdated facilities at the academy and will be Robotics High-Bay Lab to allow indoor drone Left of boom refers to the moments before to protect our nation. used by instructors to provide cadets hands-on fl ight and robotics use. an explosion or attack — a period when you still “The 21st Century battlefi eld is complex core courses in science, technology, engineering When visitors enter the center, they will be have time to prepare and avert a crisis. and demands that our cadets and future military and math. welcomed by a three-story light-fi lled atrium. Part of being prepared for left of boom leaders process emergent threats including cyber The structure will have large, open The atrium will be the hub of the center and will moments is being able to work with others intelligence warfare. I believe this complex workspaces where cadets and faculty, from be surrounded by glass walls, providing visitors across disciplines. Collaboration among cadets will continue to provide additional resources diff erent disciplines, can collaborate. The space a window view into the Robotics High-Bay Lab. and faculty will be encouraged and the center in helping them learn to safeguard our nation’s will also enable them to grapple with cutting- The center’s atrium entrance and the entire will be designed to facilitate this. interests,” Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, 55th Chief edge technology and equipment, and creatively fourth fl oor will serve as collaboration space. To further encourage collaboration, a 30-feet of Engineers, said. “This modern academic and critically tackle complex problems. The fourth fl oor — with views of the Hudson wide pedestrian enclosed bridge with an exterior facility will inspire collaboration across The goal is to inspire the cadets, ignite River — will provide collaboration space and rooftop will connect the center to Mahan Hall engineering disciplines in a way that can’t be innovation and develop them into the a setting for notable speakers and dignitaries and span over Thayer Walk, the main pedestrian achieved in the current 1960s-style building technically-competent leaders who are needed to give presentations and hold meetings with access way on the campus. space.” for the battlefi eld of 2030. access to high tech audio-visual equipment. This bridge will not only provide an iconic When Gagliano was asked why this center The center is one of many structures the “I cannot help but see the parallels between entrance to the Cadet Area, but will encourage is important for United States citizens he said, Army Corps of Engineers has constructed on the the old Thayer riding hall — where cadets collaboration between the buildings. “The modern battlefi eld, where military and more than 200-year-old campus that is 50 miles used to be trained in equine warfare — and While the inside of the center will have the civilian lives remain at stake and every action north of New York City on the Hudson River. the modern-day high-bay lab for drones and latest technology, the outside will pay respect is consequential, is not the arena to test these The 136,000 square-foot world class robotics testing,” Gagliano said. “West Point to West Point’s past. systems and platforms. Make your mistakes and academic facility will sit on fi ve acres of land must stay abreast of evolving technologies and “The center will have the same gray and retreat to the drawing board during testing and near the south entrance of the campus and other training opportunities for the young men and black granite exterior as the other historic train-ups. Or as Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf’s academic buildings and barracks. women who will be leading our next generation buildings on the campus and will refl ect the adage goes — “The more you sweat in peace, “The center will be the first thing new of American warfi ghters. historic military gothic revival architecture the less you bleed in war.” 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 offi cial views of, or constitute endorsement of the products or services advertised by the U.S.
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