Posted on Nov 15, 2018
West Point 2019 Seniors Receive US Army Branch Assignments
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Nearly 1,000 West Point class of 2019, seniors received their US Army Branch assignments in ceremony at the USMA's Eisenhower Hall on November 14th. It was announced at the West Point Board of Visitors meeting last week that an increasing number of graduates would be assigned to Combat Arms branches of the Army from 70 to 75%, over 82% with program known as detailing which assigns new officers to combat units before heading to their specialty branch. The event keynote speaker was retired Maj Gen. Bob Ivany '69 graduate who told story of from Vietnam where he learned to not underestimate the potential of a soldier in your platoon.
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Thank you for sharing, my friend Ken Kraetzer the news and accompanying video focused on the branch assignments for the USMA class of 2019. It is nice to see that notification is still via official letter instead of text message or worse tweet.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
Personally I think it would have been a bummer to not be able to chose my branch and get it in a letter. I commissioned a friend this year into ADA and will ask him his thoughts on needs of the Army.
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It is the U.S. Army so it makes sense that the vast majority of officers will have served in a combat unit long enough to get a fairly good understanding. We never know what life might throw at us right.
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