United States Military Academy News

This article was submitted by Andrea Wagner. On May 1 Lt. Steven Kinney deployed to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Division, where his unit will be stationed for the next nine months.

As a boy growing up in El Paso, Maj. Gen. Dana J.H. Pittard found inspiration in a most unlikely place.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., announced he is accepting applications for nominations to the U.S. Service Academies.

Join Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Washington College in Lexington, VA in May, 1870 as he remembers his early life, the Civil War, and his relationship with General Grant.

On May 19 at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., eight women are graduating from America's premier military leadership program for female cadets.

Chris Heisey's re-injury was not severe. But that doesn't mean he'll be returning any time soon.

Two former North Ridgeville High School students were recently inducted into the high school's Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.

Mercer University’s dean of the Tift College of Education will retire at the end of the academic year.

Enduring one final test - a two-hour ceremony under a hot sun - about 1,000 Sonoma State University students celebrated their graduation Saturday afternoon on the Rohnert Park campus.

Jim Nicholson, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican and secretary for veterans affairs; told members of the Franciscan University of Steubenville Class of 2013 Saturday he was one of seven children in a family that was so poor, they lived without utilities.

They called him "Sonny" and thought his skills as a piano player likely would lead him to a career as a musician.

Cape High senior Jake Mocci is headed to basic training at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point July 1. Cape High senior Jake Mocci said he wanted to join the armed forces most of his life.

"When our Soldiers are performing combat operations in villages and cities in Iraq and Afghanistan with complicated terrain, such as Baghdad and Fallujah, they're in areas that are familiar to the enemy, but not to them," said Retired First Sergeant, Alec Lazore, range operations officer at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. "Training ... (more)

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree.

By South Asia Intelligence Review: Emphasizing the Lashkar-e-Taiba's clout and survival capabilities in South Asia, Admiral Samuel Locklear, Commander of the US Pacific Command , observed, on April 9, 2013, "LeT remains one, if not the most operationally capable terrorist groups through all of South Asia.

Hours before Ryan Smathers was to take part in his school's prom court, the senior was the king of his home track once more at the 19th annual North East Invitational Saturday at North East High School.

A high-ranking Coast Guard official said at a National Day of Prayer gathering that religious liberty in the U.S. military is being threatened and that service members are being told to hide their faith in Christ, according to a videotape obtained by Fox News.

U.S. Rep. Diane Black released the following statement Thursday congratulating her U.S. Service Academy appointees for the class of 2017: "These young adults represent Tennessee's best and I am proud to nominate them to a U.S. Service Academy.

Army attack aviators might seem tangential to the efforts of ground troops in the battle for hearts and minds by adhering to counterinsurgency doctrine, but the two are intertwined, an Army official writes in Armed Forces Journal, a sister publication of Army Times.

David J. Vann, the Birmingham lawyer and activist who served as Birmingham's mayor in the late 1970s, will be among a group of Alabama lawyers inducted posthumously into the Alabama Lawyers' Hall of Fame on Friday.