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Updated 8/2/2013

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Items listed here before they get their own webpage:


Caring Bridge      Academy Awards    Class Gift     E-Howitzer     The Wall Roster Spreadsheet     1968 Football Roster     1968 150 Pound Football     

Book Nook of Class Authors on Amazon     Oral History     Class Discount     Bean Navy!!     Classy Threads     Troop Leading Guide     New Cadet Preparation-PDF

Remembrance      Screens Savers     Old Grad Websites     Music     iSABRD     A very good year!     Other Military/Academy Links    Stay Connected

Caring Bridge

Mike Taylor



Academy Awards


Distinguished Graduate Bob Kimmitt    Notable Graduate Mike Krzyzewski



Class Gift

E-Howitzer

The Wall Roster Spreadsheet

Once spreadsheet is open, Control F (find) 69 for classmates killed in Vietnam.

1968 Football Roster

1968 150 Pound Football


 

Book Nook of Class Authors on Amazon

Skip Bacevich    Gary Dolan    Pete Grimm    Mike Healy    Mike Krzyzewski    Jim McDonough    Jerry Morelock     Lucian Truscott        

and our 1st Regimental Commander Colonel Ralph Puckett

When buying, click here to support your West-Point.org with no extra-cost credit.

 

Oral History

Skip Bacevich


 

Class Discount

Consumer Classmate Real Discount Deals ≥ the Best Offers to/from Others

Irish Pub Posters from Mike Healy:  Buy one 16x20 poster and receive a free 8x10 photo of your choice...

or buy an 8x10 photo and receive one free of your choice.  Deals not offered to the public.  Contact Mike here to choose your free item.

See Mike's 2012 Ireland Mini-reunion video on Photos/Videos page.  

   Bean Navy!!  

"On Brave Old Army Team" and other fight song background music in Microsoft Internet Explorer



Classy Threads


Gift Store   The Corps Has   Shop the Point   Go Army Sports   Love A Cadet   Museum Gift Shop   Cadet Store   Vasily's




Troop Leading Guide

'69 Troop Leading Guide     Troop Leading Procedures

New Cadet Preparation-PDF



 

Remembrance

     In remembrance...Music (with Microsoft Internet Explorer) /Videos     

 

Screens Savers

Old Grad Websites

1955 - Great links        eg. Academy Music  (requires Microsoft Internet Explorer) or from West-point.org

1963 (E-book)

Other Class Websites  - Click on underlined class numbers

 


iSABRD (internet Service Academy Business Resource Directory)

1969, a very good year...ah, yes, I remember it well!

Pop History     Economy/Prices     Wiki Overview      Billboard Top Hits      Music Hits (YouTube)     100 Greatest Songs

Other Military/Academy Links

          www.westpoint.edu, www. usma.edu, www.west-point.org, www.westpointaog.org, www.aogusma.org, www.aafes.com, www.cadetstuff.org, www.usmilitaryabout.com, www.goarmysports.com, www.academyphoto.com, www.usaa.com, www.penfed.org.

As well as the Parent Club of Illinois' website, www.west-point.org/parent/wppc-illinois/joomla , and the many links it offers (eg, www.usma.edu, aka www.usma.army.mil), you are encouraged to visit www.west-point.org, the entry- way to a number of helpful services, to include Plebe-Net (join at www.west-point.org/parent/plebe-net) and Parent Forum (www.west-point.org/parent/parent-forum), and a sponsored site put together by cadets themselves:  www.westpointcadets.org.  For a link to USMA's "Undergraduate Journal of Social Sciences," click here www.soshjournal.org.  For quick questions and answers, check out www.west-point.org/parent/wpp-net/faq and www.west-point.org/parent/plebe-net/links.htm.  www.west-point.org/academy/malo-wa/inspirations/buglenotes.html and www.combat.ws/S4/MILTERMS/WP0SLANG.HTM have very nice collections of plebe knowledge.  

For www.usma.edu, the "Search/Reference" section is a very useful tool.  Go there and you will also find the Academy's master calendar (www.dean.usma.edu/sebpublic/mastercalendar) to discover march days and other events.  Under another section, "Agencies," click on "USCC Commandant's Corner" for contacts at the Directorate of Cadet Activities.  Please realize that many USCC (things pertaining to the Corps, and specifically training of the Corps) are not listed on the calendar.  Also, the reference to WPS is “West Point School,” the elementary school on post – NOT the Academy.  The following allows access to the Cadet Library:  http://www.library.usma.edu/index.cfm?TabID=6&LinkCategoryID=49   Also check out http://www.militarynewcomers.com/WESTPOINT/resources/yp_01.html for their Yellow Pages.  For a link to valuable Parent Club information, you can also check out www.usma.edu/publicaffairs/club.htm.  A digital collection from the Academy's Library is located at:  http://digital-library.usma.edu/collections/.  The local Association of Graduates (AOG) society can be found at www.aogusma.org/soc/chicago.  Parent resources, as recommended by the AOG, can be found at www.aogusma.org/wpf/parents-fund/resource.htm.  Alumni support information can be found at www.westpointaog.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=2705 .  Vietnam Wall roster of Academy graduates:  www.academybiznet.org/VietnamMemorial.html

Click here for Academy's founding document.  Please use the following site to obtain multiple reproductions of this document (especially for Founders Day place mats):  www.westpointgiftstore.com  Why was gray chosen for the cadet uniforms?  www.vfw7539.org/PDF/GrayUniform1a.pdf , www.vfw7539.org/PDF/GrayUniform2a.pdf , www.vfw7539.org/PDF/GrayUniform3a.pdf , and www.vfw7539.org/PDF/CadetGrayfor3Sep2009.pdf .  Academy fight songs:  www.bahrnoproducts.com/Bean%20Navy.htm

Academy Library:  http://www.usma.edu/library/SitePages/Home.aspx   Digital Collections:  http://digital-library.usma.edu/cdm/  

Pritzker Military Library:  http://www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/home/default.aspx

The following sites relate to Academy sports:  www.goarmysports.com, www.armysports.com, and www.armyrfc.com (rugby).  

The following sites include Academy-related gift items:  www.westpointgiftstore.com, www.shopthepoint.com, www.goarmysports.com, www.thecorpshas.com, www.loveacadet.com, www.dusagiftshop.org, www.usma.edu/uscc/dca/stores/stores.htm, www.vasily.com, and www.skyviewpictures.com/skyviewstore/products.php?catid=9&category=West%20Point .  When buying books and other items through Amazon.com, shop here and give one of the Academy's support organizations a credit at no cost to you:  http://gradstore.west-point.org/    However, once you start jumping around the gradstore site, the commission structure breaks.  

     For art, check this out.    Music with Internet Explorer.    

The following sites link to numerous other sites providing military information:  www.aogusma.org, www.moaa.org, www.military.com, www.army.mil, and www.army.mil/soldiers, and www.vfw.org.  Military items can be found at www.supertrooper.com, www.uscavstore.com, and www.aafes.com.  The Military Channel videos can be found at http://military.discover.com. Link to B2B service academy graduate networking service:  www.isabrd.com.  www.combat.ws/S4/MILTERMS/INDEX.HTM has a very nice glossary of military terms.  Casual web-searches on appropriate keywords will lead you to still more official and interesting sites, eg the one video (click here) where Clint Eastwood branches Signal Corps!!   : )    Catch all the episodes:  "West Point:  The Television Series"

When ordering, don't forget, click    to support west-point.org using keywords "West Point Television Series"

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