Military Academy Liaison Officer (MALO) Openings

Greetings from West Point:

I want to share with you an opportunity to continue to serve by working with the United States Military Academy Admissions Office as a Military Academy Liaison Officer (MALO).

MALOs are Active Duty and Reserve Officers who represent West Point in their community. MALOs come from a diverse population, representing all branches, ranks and sources of commission.  Additionally, reserve MALOs earn retirement points for their time and efforts on behalf of Admissions. All MALOs share a professional work ethic and a passion for assisting our young people make an informed decision that is best for them and best for our Army.

As the Director of Admissions, I am responsible for not only identifying quality applicants, but also ensuring that all candidates, regardless of location, military affiliation, or socioeconomic status, have access to information concerning the United States Military Academy (USMA) and Army ROTC.  I cannot do this alone. I need your help to get the word out about the college and career opportunities offered by the Army.

If you are interested in continuing to serve our Nation, contribute to the quality of the future Army Officer Corps, I ask you to consider serving as a MALO, join our MALO force, and begin making a difference in the lives and futures of the young men and women in your community.

Should you have any questions or want further information about our MALO program, please contact the West Point Reserve Affairs Office (reserveaffairs.admissions@usma.edu). Go Army!

                                                            Sincerely,

                                                            Deborah McDonald

                                                            Colonel, U.S. Army

                                                            Director of Admissions

MALO FAQs

History

• Established in 1970

• Purpose: Use Army Reserve Officers as community-based outreach for USMA and ROTC ascensions

ü Encourage candidates to apply to West Point

ü Mentor candidates throughout the admissions and nomination processes

ü Work in partnership with assigned Regional Admissions Commanders

ü Support and augment Regional Diversity Outreach Officers

ü Develop informational network among guidance counselors and school administrators throughout assigned district(s)

• The IRR has up to 414 authorized positions for officers in ranks of O-2 thru O-6

ü No limit on TPU, IMA, or Mil-Tech officers

• Assignments made by congressional district, MALO must live in the assigned district

• Up through 2006 Admissions had over 400 MALOs assigned throughout the Nation

• Since 2006 the number of MALOs has decreased to 28 total active MALOs nationwide

Benefits to Reservists Participating in the MALO Program

• Reserve Affairs Officer position established within Admissions to manage the MALO Program

ü Supports the individual needs of MALOs throughout all reserve affiliations

ü Coordinates ascension of applicants from application through the review and approval process

ü Coordinates IRR/MALO attachment through HRC

• MALO opportunities available throughout all reserve affiliations

ü All MALOs receive initial training (onsite or distance learning)

ü All MALOs, regardless of affiliation, earn reserve points towards retirement

ü 404 positions available with attachment to Admissions

ü Unlimited TPU, IMA, Mil-Tech positions available for “points only”

 Requirements

• Belief in the West Point Mission

• Desire to support candidates, and Directorate of Admissions in identifying tomorrow’s leaders today.

• Willingness and ability to work within a team environment

• Willingness to represent the Directorate of Admissions at select public/private schools, college fairs, Congressional Service Academy Days, Admissions Information Meetings

• Willingness to facilitate and complete interviews with local competitive candidates

 Interested individuals should contact the Directorate of Admissions at West Point

reserveaffairs.admissions@usma.edu

“West Point in a World in Transition.”

Our Society sent the President (Lindy) to the West Point Class of 1967 s sponsored Leadership Conference.  Below is an excerpt of the discussions at the conference, along with a link to the full report:

This year’s conference was tempered from the outset due to the loss of one of our graduates, MAJ Thomas Kennedy, Class of 2000. MAJ Kennedy, his brigade’s CSM (CSM Kevin Griffin), MAJ Walter Gray, USAF, and a civilian USAID worker were killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan on 8 August 2012. MAJ Kennedy had been in theater for three weeks and was serving as Fire Support Coordinator for 4th BCT, 4th ID, Ft. Carson, CO; this had been his third deployment, with the first two being in Iraq. MAJ Kennedy had previously served as a TAC in USCC, and had also worked with COL Graham ’88, of the Dean’s Office, with cadet AIAD assignments. His funeral was held Friday, 17 August 2012 in the Cadet Chapel.

This year’s conference was condensed from previous conferences. The conference opened with a ‘Go Army!’ Barbeque Reception at Herbert Hall on Thursday evening, 16 August . The food was good; however, there is a lack of sufficient parking for as many attendees as were present. At the reception, I had the honor to meet COL (R) Dick Williams ’45; COL Williams had completed the entire March Back with the Class of 2016 the previous Monday.
The conference got underway Friday morning in Robinson Auditorium in Thayer Hall, formerly known as South Auditorium. The auditorium has been dedicated to GEN (R) Roscoe Robinson ’51, former CG of 82nd Airborne Div from ’76-’78.

The first briefing was by the Superintendent, LTG David Huntoon ’73. LTG Huntoon started by relating that, in his opinion, the phrase “leaders of character” is the most important part of the USMA Mission. He showed a slide of the card of the Cadet Honor Code being read by a New Cadet candidate; we were told that receive this card ~37 minutes after leaving Eisenhower Hall and their families. He said that he has re-instituted the Superintendent’s Advisory Council on the Honor Code. Gen. Huntoon then showed a slide depicting new Cadet Barracks; the average age of all the current cadet barracks is ~80 years old training / leave time. There were 700 CONUS AIADs, and 350 OCONUS AIADs in 2012; these AIAD assignments typically cost ~$2500/2 weeks and are financed through AOG. We were briefed by CDT Astrid Colon-Moreno ’15 on her AIAD at US Institute of Peace; CDT Andrew Lopez ’13 on his AIAD on Conflict and Human Securities Solutions in Ghana where he taught kindergarten children; CDTs Evan Szablowski ’13 and Zachary Langhans ’13 on their AIAD on Economic Development of Entrepreneurial Networks in Ethiopia; and CDT Jeff Nielson ’13 on his AIAD on Counter-IED for Afghanistan at USMA.

The last briefing before lunch was by COL Jesse Germain ’87, the Deputy Director, DPE. He told us that the USMA had been named one of the 15 most influential sports education programs. He shared the curriculum with the new Kinesiology major; DPE has actually had to turn away applicants to study this program. He also showed us a video of the new survival swimming test.

Lunch was held in the West Point Club. The attendees were seated according to geographic sections based for admissions; thus I had the opportunity to sit with Roy Bromfield, President of WPS of Upstate. We were briefed by LTC Pete Wilson, Assoc. Director of Admissions. LTC Wilson is also in charge of CPRC. LTC Wilson informed us that the average SAT score for Class of 2016 = 1281. He said that 30% of Class of 2016 attended SLS (Summer Leadership Seminar). USMA runs a 3-day STEM workshop that is targeted for 7th and 8th grade students. LTC Wilson told us that offers of admission for Class of 2017 will not be tendered until after 1 March 2013, and the applicant will only have a 30-day window in which to accept the offer of admission; no more early offers of admission. There were two unfortunate issues regarding lunch; first, the AC in the Club was not working which made the temperature extremely uncomfortable, and MAJ Turner, the SE Regional Admissions Rep was on vacation that week and could not attend the lunch.

The afternoon breakout sessions...  (To read more, click here)

VP2H Needs your Help - PASS THIS ON

As some of you know, a few of the members of the Denver society, along with a number of very talented volunteers have been working hard over the last six months to pull together a huge project in support of wounded veterans.  Veteran’s  Passport to Hope (VP2H) primary mission is to raise awareness about the issues today’s veterans are facing along with raising money to support their transition back to civilian life.

Why are we involved?  Some of us are from the Vietnam generation.  That generation of brave Americans were treated terribly upon their return and were soon forgotten.  Thank God that we are wiser today and can separate politics from our warriors.  However, as we have exited Iraq and will soon exit Afghanistan, the American people will go on with their lives and quickly forget about the sacrifice these brave men and women have made.  We have very short memories. It is already starting to happen. VP2H is committed to not letting that happen.

What can you do to help? We need you to buy a ticket (or two) to our event on 10/4.  Even if you are out of state and can’t attend, buy a ticket anyway and we will find a veteran to fill the seat in your name (just inform us in the Comment Section to this blog).  The ticket price of $78 includes food, drinks, entertainment, silent and live auctions and an incredible key note speaker that will move all attendees as he recounts his tragic loss of both legs to an IED and his incredible journey of recovery. 

Please check out our website to learn more and purchase tickets at www.vp2h.org. 

First Annual Family Picnic

The West Point Society of Denver

invites you to the

First Annual Family Picnic

Sunday, August 26^th, 2012

11am – 3pm

Stapleton Central Park Pavilion & Playground

8801 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Denver, CO 80238

With great food and drinks, a large playground, games and socializing with other Denver-area West Pointers and their family, there will be fun for all ages!

 Cost will be $18/adult and $12/child (under 2 yrs is free)

20% DISCOUNT IF PAYMENT RECEIVED BY July 23^rd

RSVP to Mark Frank at markdfrank@gmail.com

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS

 it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Passport to Hope Ticket Available

The sale of tickets for individual, groups and companies at the October 4th, 2012 Veterans Passport to Hope, in support of the Wounded Warrior Project™ event (being held at the Wings over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver) ARE NOW Available. They can be found on-line at: http://www.veteranspassport2hope.org/donation/

The same website will provide you details regarding the event and its organization. We hope to raise significant funding via live and silent auctions that night. Come join the fun & help this needing class of warriors.

Veteran’s Passport to Hope (VP2H) is a non-partisan, non-paid, all volunteer group of individuals who have both military and civilian backgrounds. Our Society is helping the new organization by assisting in the area of Financial Management with our Non-Profit status.

VP2H’s mission consists of three main focus areas: Awareness, Fund-Raising, and Cooperation:

AWARENESS: VP2H’s Primary mission is to raise awareness within the Colorado area about the issues Veterans face: Multiple tours in combat zones, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), high unemployment rate, high homelessness rate, high divorce rate, and a record high suicide rate. As the military mission winds down in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans reintegrate themselves into civilian society, we believe that this awareness will foster an understanding of their efforts and compassion for their struggle.

FUND-RAISING: VP2H’s secondary mission is to raise money for Veteran friendly non-profits. Through due diligence and research, we organize fund raising events which support local, Veteran friendly non-profits. We only support high quality charities that maximize their accountability to veteran’s causes and are transparent in their fund raising and giving practices.

COOPERATION: VP2H’s tertiary mission is to act as a rallying point for other Veteran friendly non-profits. Our goal is to organize and conduct meetings with the leadership teams of these groups within the Colorado area with the goal of finding ways for us to work together more efficiently. We believe that by working together and by sharing ideas, we can reduce competition between non-profit groups and more efficiently and more effectively help Veterans.

Tri-Service Academy Annual Golf Tournament

 Tri-Service Academy Annual Golf Tournament

Save Monday, June 18th as an open date on your calender!
Kickoff time will be at 0800 hrs, for a shotgun format golf outing.  This year, were having it at the Eisenhower Golf Club

• members are $50
• Active Duty Military/DoD Civilians/Reserve are $75
• Civilians are $100

Lunch is an additional $15.

Sign-up and Mail-in Forms , along with the Prizes and Rules can be found by clicking here.

Any questions on the event can be answered by contacting Joel Martin: 912-222-9250,joel.thomas.martin@gmail.com