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The Academy Store also offers West Point apparel, gifts, and specialty gift items including sabers, frames, and cadet busts. Guests of cadets are welcome. Thayer Hall (4th floor) Hours of Operation: 0730-1600 (Monday – Friday) Main Phone Number: 845-938-2121. Specialty Gift Items: x5193.
Reopened in December 2017 with a sweeping view of the Hudson River, the newly renovated Visitors Center is a gift-in-kind to the United States Military Academy West Point from West Point Association of Graduates, and is named after Frederic V. Malek, West Point Class of 1959.
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The strip of land in the western Pacific Ocean is roughly the size of Chicago, and just 4 miles wide at its narrowest point. It is about 2,200 miles southeast of North Korea, much closer than it is to any of the United States. Hawaii is about 4,000 miles to the west. Its proximity to China, Japan, the Philippines and the Korean Peninsula has long m...
Guam was claimed by Spain in 1565 and became a U.S. territory in 1898 during the Spanish-American War. Japan seized it for about 2 1/2 years during World War II. In 1950, an act of Congress made it an unincorporated organized territory of the United States. It has limited self-government, with a popularly elected governor, small legislature, and no...
The U.S. keeps a Naval base and Coast Guard station in the south, and an Air Force base in the north that saw heavy use during the Vietnam War. While already taking up 30 percent of the island, the American military has been seeking to increase its presence by relocating to Guam thousands of Marines who are currently based in Okinawa, Japan. Protec...
The island was first populated about 4,000 years ago by the ancestors of the Chamorros, still the island's largest ethnic group. Now, about 160,000 people live on Guam. Its capital city is Hagatna and its largest city is Dededo. Its chief languages are English and Chamorro. It has seen various popular movements pushing for greater self-government o...
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Jun 29, 2021 · Jun 29, 2021, 3:27 PM PDT. US officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after Marines and soldiers landed on the island, July 20, 1944. US Army. In June 1898, the US Navy sailed to...
Since its founding over two centuries ago, the military academy has accomplished its mission by developing cadets in four critical areas: intellectual, physical, military, and moral-ethical - a four-year process called the "West Point Experience."
A trip to the Naval Academy isn’t complete without a trip to the Naval Academy Gift Shop at the Armel-Leftwich Visitor Center. As part of the many NABSD Retail options, at the Gift Shop you’ll find the spirit wear, souvenirs and gifts to commemorate your visit and directly support the Midshipmen.
