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WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — “Duty, Honor, Country” has been the motto of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point since 1898. Officials at the 222-year-old military academy 60 miles (96 ...
Since 1958, the West Point Association of Graduates has presented the SYLVANUS THAYER AWARD to an outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in the West Point motto: DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY.
West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland said in a statement that “Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy's culture and will always remain our motto." “It defines who we are as an institution and as graduates of West Point,” he said.
Situated on the upper western corner of the Plain next to the north entrance to MacArthur Barracks, the monument consists of a statue of the general surrounded by angled granite walls that bear inscribed excerpts from his final public speech, the 1962 Duty, Honor, Country address he made to the Corps of Cadets upon receiving the Thayer Award. [2]
West Point is home to the Sylvanus Thayer Award. Given annually by the academy since 1958, the award honors an outstanding citizen whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify the academy's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country." [239] Currently, the award guidelines state that the recipient not be a graduate of the academy.
Today, women make up almost 15 percent of active-duty members in the U.S. military, which has remained steady since 2000, according to 2013 Department of Defense data. Two West Point Cadets made history earlier this year when they became the first women to graduate from Army Ranger School. Enlistment numbers for minorities tell a similar story.
A 1975 graduate of West Point, Austin urged cadets to follow the academy's timeless values during periods of upheaval. ... "But the values of West Point do not change. Duty, honor, country: those ...
Duty, Honor, Country. A History of West Point. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6293-0. Betros, Lance (2012). Carved from Granite: West Point since 1902. Texas A&M University Press. Cocke, Clyde W.; Moore, Eilene Harkless (2012). Pass in Review: An Illustrated History of West Point Cadets, 1794–Present. Oxford: Osprey.