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Ferris High grad Kathy Ann Funk went to West Point 50 years ago. Here's how she remembers the first class of women • Nov. 10, 2026, 5:25 PM ET (The Spokane Spokesman-Review)
A West Point cadet drugged his girlfriend to force an unwanted abortion. Then he went to grad school • Nov. 2, 2026, 7:16 PM ET (AP)

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Also Known As West Point Academy
Date March 16, 1802 - present
Areas Of Involvement higher education
Notable Alumni Red Blaik • John J. Pershing • Cyrus B. Comstock • George B. McClellan • Martin Dempsey • Geoffrey Keyes • Frank Borman • Fitz-John Porter • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Robert E. Lee • George Patton • George Armstrong Custer • Harold K. Johnson • Stonewall Jackson • William Westmoreland • Jack Reed • Timothy Leary • Lloyd Austin • Stanley McChrystal • John J. Mearsheimer • Jubal A. Early • Hun Manet • Creighton Williams Abrams, Jr. • Mike Krzyzewski • Anne McClain • Buzz Aldrin • Frank Rubio • Michael Collins • Norman Schwarzkopf • Omar Bradley • David Scott • Maxwell Davenport Taylor • Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. • Matthew Bunker Ridgway • Carl Spaatz • Henry W. Halleck • Ambrose Everett Burnside • E. Kirby-Smith • George Edward Pickett • Lyman Lemnitzer • Al Worden • Jonathan M. Wainwright • James B. McPherson • Andrew Summers Rowan
Related People Bertram G. Goodhue • Red Blaik

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West Point in the 1780s.In 1795 George Washington called for a national academy to train military officers. West Point, a military fortress during the American Revolution, was the site chosen.
Benedict Arnold and John André
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Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower in a West Point cadet uniform, 1915.
Cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
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