Cory

WEST POINT The West Point graduating class of 1915 numbered 164. More than a third of that extraordinary class won stars, 59 in all-24 brigadier generals (one star), 24 major generals (two stars), 7 lieutenant generals (three stars), two generals (four stars), and 2 generals of the army (five stars). The two who attained the army’s highest possible rank were Dwight David Eisenhower and Omar Nelson Bradley. They joined a very select group. Before World War II only four men had held that rank: Ulysses S. Grant (Class of 1843), William T. Sherman (1840), Philip H. Sheridan (1853), and John J. Pershing (1886). Three others attained the rank during World War II. One, George C. Marshall, was not a West Pointer—he graduated from the Virginia Military Institute—but the other two were: Douglas MacArthur (1903) and Henry H. Arnold (1907). There have been no others since. ...................................................................................................................... "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." ........................................................... In the extreme case of a battlefield or natural disaster area rescue, the pilot or co-pilot of an AH-64 Apache will ride on the outside of the helicopter so the passenger(s) can sit inside. At Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo, Aug. 25, Soldiers practice the tricky operation.