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USMA Command Channel Channels 8/23 for the Week of June 20-27 Army Newswatch Thursday, Friday and Monday Through June 27 8:30 A.M., 1 P.M JUNE 20, 2013 1 THE JUNE 20, 2013 VOL. 70, NO. 23 OINTER IEW® DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY PSERVING THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AND THE COMMUNITY V OF WEST POINT ® Learning from the chaos Members of 1st Platoon, Company A, conduct a raid on a village where they were to either capture or kill a high-value target during Cadet Leader Development Training June 11. In the ensuing chaos, a civilian was killed and the unit suffered two wounded and seven killed during the “exercise” results. This was an offensive scenario with Class of 2014 Cadet Kwame Addo as platoon leader and Class of 2014 Cadet Garrett Kennedy as platoon sergeant. See pages 8-9 for story and photos. MIKE STRASSER/PV SEE PAGES 12, 16 VOLKSSPORT CLUB AT WEST POINT INSIDE Army Sports Hall 5K, 10K TRAILS IN NYACK, N.Y. & of Fame 2013 Join the Volkssport Club at West Point for a 5K and Class selected 10K walk through the historic town of Nyack, N.Y. ONLINE Saturday. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the Visitors’ WWW . POINTERVIEW . COM Information Desk at Nyack Hospital. For details, call WWW . USMA . EDU PV FILE PHOTO Peggy Goetz at 845-268-2215. 2 JUNE 20, 2013 NEWS & FEATURES POINTER VIEW NASA selects next generation of space explorers USMA graduates McClain, Morgan are two of eight candidates NASA Press Release • Tyler N. (Nick) Hague, 37, Lt. Col., Pilot School, Patuxent River, Md. is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at U.S. Air Force, calls Hoxie, Kan., home. He Mann is an F/A 18 pilot, currently serving West Point, and earned a doctorate of medicine After an extensive year-and-a-half search, is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as an Integrated Product Team Lead at the U.S. from the Uniformed Services University of the NASA has a new group of potential astronauts Colorado Springs, Colo.; Massachusetts Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md. who will help the agency push the boundaries Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., and • Anne C. McClain, 34, Maj., U.S. Army, He has experience as an emergency of exploration and travel to new destinations the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, lists her hometown as Spokane, Wash. She is a physician and flight surgeon for the Army in the solar system, including an asteroid and Calif. graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West special operations community, and currently is Mars. Eight candidates have been selected to be Hague currently is supporting the Point; the University of Bath and the University completing a sports medicine fellowship. NASA’s newest astronaut trainees, hoping to be Department of Defense as deputy chief of the of Bristol, both in the United Kingdom. The new astronaut candidates will begin among those who are the first to launch from Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat McClain is an OH-58 helicopter pilot, and training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in U.S. soil on commercial American spacecraft Organization. a recent graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot Houston in August. since the retirement of the space shuttle. • Christina M. Hammock, 34, calls School at Naval Air Station, Patuxent River. “This year we have selected eight highly The 2013 astronaut candidate class comes Jacksonville, N.C., home. Hammock holds • Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D., 35, is from qualified individuals who have demonstrated from the second largest number of applications undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Caribou, Maine. She is a graduate of Brown impressive strengths academically, operationally NASA has received—more than 6,000. Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. University, has an advanced degree from the and physically,” Janet Kavandi, director of Half of the selectees are women, making She currently is serving as National Oceanic International Space University and earned Flight Crew Operations at Johnson, said. “They this the highest percentage of female astronaut and Atmospheric Administration Station chief her doctorate from Scripps Institution of have diverse backgrounds and skill sets that candidates ever selected for a class. in American Samoa. Oceanography. will contribute greatly to the existing astronaut The group will receive a wide array of • Nicole Aunapu Mann, 35, Maj., U.S. Meir currently is an assistant professor corps. Based on their incredible experiences technical training at space centers and remote Marine Corps, originally is from Penngrove, of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, to date, I have every confidence that they will locations around the globe to prepare for Calif. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. apply their combined expertise and talents to missions to low-Earth orbit, an asteroid and She is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, • Andrew R. Morgan, M.D., 37, Maj., U.S. achieve great things for NASA and this country Mars. Stanford University and the U.S. Naval Test Army, considers New Castle, Pa., home. Morgan in the pursuit of human exploration.” “These new space explorers asked to join NASA because they know we're doing big, bold things here—developing missions to go farther into space than ever before,” NASA NASCAR: Administrator Charles Bolden said. “They’re excited about the science we’re doing on the International Space Station and our plan to An American launch from U.S. soil to there on a spacecraft built by American companies. And they’re ready to help lead the first human mission to Salute to an asteroid and then on to Mars.” The astronaut candidates are: Soldiers at • Josh A. Cassada, Ph.D., 39, is originally from White Bear Lake, Minn. Cassada is a former naval aviator who holds an Pocono 400 undergraduate degree from Albion College, and advanced degrees from the University of In celebration of NASCAR: An Rochester, N.Y. American Salute, Sgt. John Cassada is a physicist by training and Shoemaker, U.S. Army Garrison- currently is serving as co-founder and chief West Point Military Police technology officer for Quantum Opus. Company, took the wheel as • Victor J. Glover, 37, Lt. Cmdr. U.S. Navy, honorary pace car driver during hails from Pomona, Calif., and Prosper, Texas. the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series He is an F/A-18 pilot and graduate of the U.S. Pocono 400 race at Pocono Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards, Calif. Raceway June 9. Shoemaker was Glover holds degrees from California joined by fellow Soldiers as part of Polytechnic State University, San Luis the Troops to the Track program Obispo, Calif.; Air University and the Naval in partnership with the Armed Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. Forces Foundation. He currently is serving as a Navy Legislative PHOTO PROVIDED BY NASCAR VIA GETTY IMagES Fellow in the U.S. Congress. 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PV Staff Writer, 938-3684 POINTER VIEW JUNE 20, 2013 3 Kane earns IMCOM’s “Best Warrior” title By Nils Anderson U.S. Army Garrison–West Point PAO A U.S. Army Garrison–West Point Military Policeman was named the Installation Management Command’s “Best Warrior Competition Soldier of the Year” at a ceremony in San Antonio May 17. Spc. Jesse Kane earned his title after competing in the “Joint Base San Antonio Best Warrior Challenge.” Thirty-six Soldiers and noncommissioned officers from IMCOM, ARSOUTH, ARNORTH and SERMAC participated at Camp Bullis for the inaugural Joint Base San Antonio Best Warrior Competition. Kane, from Hershey, Pa., reached the IMCOM competition after winning the Atlantic Region Best Warrior Competition and the West Point Best Warrior Competition. The four-day competition involved the top 36 Soldiers from across IMCOM who competed in physical fitness events, combatives, knowledge of military topics, weapons assembly (M9, M4 and M249), weapons qualification, day and night land navigation and other critical warrior tasks and battle drills. Kane, who served a tour in Iraq, said the competition was tough and he felt that he was able to build confidence and focus during the competition. He also made several friends, some of which assisted one another in preparation for each event.
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