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About U.S. Military Academy

The U.S. Military Academy, also known as USMA, West Point or Army, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, which is a federal military reservation (and a census-designated place) located north of the Village of Highland Falls in Orange County, in the US state of New York, with a population estimated at a number of more than 7000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census.

The Academy was founded in March, 1802, with the formal authorization of the Congress, and it is the oldest of the United States’ five service academies, its campus being a popular tourist destination complete with a large visitor center and the oldest museum in the United States Army. The institution sits on scenic high ground, overlooking the Hudson River, situated 50 miles of New York City, its campus being entirely considered a national landmark, housing various historic sites, buildings, and monuments.

USMA teaches the cadets in a style that forms part of the Thayer system, implemented by Sylvanus Thayer during his tour as Superintendent. The academic program consists of 31 courses, balanced between science and art, and regardless of the chosen major, all cadets graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree.

The institution’s athletic teams are known as the Army Black Knights, who compete in 15 men’s and 9 women’s sports in the NCAA, including in Atlantic Hockey, in men’s ice hockey. Each year, the West Point Weekend hockey game takes place, in which the Army faces the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) Paladins, representing the longest running annual international sporting event in the world, dating since 1923.

The Army Black Nights have experienced victory in many of their sports, including in men’s lacrosse, in which they won 8 national championships and appeared in the NCAA tournament fifteen times, as well as in women’s basketball, in which they won the 2005-06 Patriot League tournament, catching a spot in the 2006 NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament, in which they lost to Tennessee, 102–54.

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni, there are: Francis Henney Smith - Major General in Confederate States Army; first and longest serving superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, Frank Borman - commanded Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, first to orbit moon and to see far side of the moon, and Doc Blanchard - United States Air Force fighter pilot; combat veteran of Vietnam War, football player known as "Mr. Inside" who won the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and James E. Sullivan Award, all in 1945, among others.