Transcript To the United States Military Academy - West

WPSPPR
presents:
A USAFA Parade
Honoring the
Bicentennial
of the
United States
Military
Academy
United States Military Academy
West Point Society
Of the Pikes Peak Region
6 April
0945 Hours
at the parade ground of the
United States Air Force Academy
We will elect Society officers at this function!
See you there!
Check the Pikes Peak Society online at:
http://www.west-point.org/society/wps-pikes-peak/index.html
Founder’s day
March 16, 2002
A Special Thanks to
Our Sponsors
J.A. Jones
The Alma Mater
Hail Alma Mater dear,
To us be ever near,
Help us thy motto bear
Through all the years.
Let duty be well performed
Honor be e’er untarned
Country be ever armed
West Point by thee
Guide us, Thy sons, aright
Teach us by day, by night,
To keep thine honor bright,
For thee to fight.
When we depart from thee,
Serving on land or sea,
May we still loyal be,
West Point, to thee.
And when our work is done,
Our course on earth is run,
May it be said, “Well done;
Be thou at peace.”
E’er may that line of gray
Increase from day to day
Live, Serve and Die, we pray,
West Point, for thee.
P.S. Reinecke, 1911
Sequence of Events
1600
1700
1705
1710
1715
1720
1730
Benny Havens
Seating
Posting of the Colors
Invocation
Welcome
Unveiling of the West Point Stamp
Web Cast from West Point
Toasts (to the President, to the Army)
Remarks by Supe, Pres of AOG
Guest Speaker (BG Pete Dawkins, '59)
More toasts (to the Academy, to the Corps)
Benediction
Corps & Alma Mater
1830 Dinner
Class Photos (during dinner)
Door prizes (during dinner)
1930 Remarks by Society President
Youngest Graduate’s Address
2LT LINDSEY FULTZ, ‘01
Oldest Graduate's Address
MG (RET) DWIGHT B. JOHNSON, ‘32
2000 Dancing
2200 Declare ENDEX and go home
The Corps & The Alma Mater
Retiring of the Colors
Benediction
Social Time
Ceremonial Toasts
“To the Commander-in-Chief”
“To the President”
“To the United States Army”
“To the Army”
“To the United States Air Force”
“To the Air Force”
“To the United States Military
Academy”
“To West Point”
“To our Loved Ones”
“To our Loved Ones”
The Corps
The Corps! The Corps! The Corps!
The Corps bareheaded salute it.
With eyes up, thanking our God
That we of the Corps are treading
Where they of the Corps have trod.
They are here in ghostly assemblage,
The men of the Corps long dead.
And our hearts are standing attention
While we wait for their passing tread.
We sons of today, we salute you,
You sons of an earlier day;
We follow, close order, behind you,
Where you have pointed the way;
The long gray line of us stretches
Through the years of a century told,
And the last man feels to his marrow
The grip of your far-off hold.
Grip hands with us now, through we see not,
Grip hands with us, strengthen our hearts
As the long line stiffens and straightens
With the thrill that your presence imparts.
Grip hands with us though it be from the shadows,
While we swear as you did of yore,
Of living or dying, to honor
The Corps, and the Corps and the Corps
Bishop H.S. Shipman
Former Chaplain, USMA
2ND LIEUTENANT
LINDSEY FULTZ
Second Lieutenant Lindsey Fultz is a native of Greenwood, South Carolina. She
graduated with F3 in June 2001 majoring in American Politics and Economics.
2LT Fultz’s Plebe and Yearling years were spent in E3, where she was a
member of the Crew Team. 2LT Fultz excelled academically as a Cow and
Firstie making the Dean’s List before being commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the Adjutant General Corps.
After graduation, Second Lieutenant Fultz attended the Adjutant General Officer
Basic Course, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Lieutenant Fultz reported to the
Mountain Post on 05 DEC 01 and assumed the duties of Deputy Chief of Staff for
G1 Plans and Operations with the primary duty as the Officer in Charge Soldier
Readiness Processing Center, one of the busiest in today’s Army.
Second Lieutenant Fultz is the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Ray Fultz of Greenwood,
South Carolina.
Biographies
Oldest Grad
MG Dwight B. Johnson
1932
Youngest Grad
2LT Lindsey Fultz
2001
MAJOR GENERAL
DWIGHT B. JOHNSON
United States Army
Dwight B. Johnson was born in Nekoosa, Wisconsin, September 5 1907. He
graduated from West point in 1932 and was commissioned as a second
lieutenant in the Artillery. His early service was as a battery officer with the 61st
Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment at Fort Sheridan, Illinois; company commander of
a Civilian Conservation Corps Company in Brule, Wisconsin; and battery
commander with the 9lst Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment of the Philippine Scouts
on Corregidor at the mouth of Manila Bay, Philippine Islands. In August 1937, he
attended the Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and in September
1938, became an instructor in Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the United
States Military Academy. West Point, New York.
During World War II he organized and trained antiaircraft artillery units at Camp
Edwards, Massachusetts, and after serving on the staff of the Antiaircraft Artillery
Training Center there, attended the Command and General staff College at Fort
Leavenworth. In April, 1943, he became a training inspector with Headquarters,
Antiaircraft Artillery Command at Richmond, Virginia, and then Assistant G-3 in
Headquarters, Army Ground Forces. Washington, D.C. followed by attendance at
the Army and Navy Staff College
In May, 1945, he participated in the Luzon Campaign and served with General
MacArthur's headquarters in Manila until the end of World War II. He continued
as an operations staff officer with GHQ, Southwest Pacific Area and Allied
Forces Pacific in Yokohama and in Tokyo during the occupation of Japan until
August, 1947. He served on the General Staff in the Organization and Training
Division, War Department General Staff, until June 1949, when he became
Deputy Special Assistant for Civilian Component Affairs in the Office of the
Chief of Staff, United States Army in the Pentagon. In June 1952, he was assigned
as Chief of the Training Branch, Organization and Training Division. in the
NATO Headquarters, Allied Forces Southern Europe in Naples, Italy. Here he
served also as Deputy Assistant Chief of staff of the Organization and Training
Division for a year before returning to the United States and assuming command
of the 19th Antiaircraft Artillery Group, which provided the Nike missile defenses
of the nation's capital.
From 1956 until 1959, he was Chief of Staff of the United States Army Air Defense
Command at Colorado Springs, Colorado, and then became Commanding General of
the lst Cavalry Division Artillery in Korea. He returned to the United States in June,
1960, to become Deputy Commander of the Field Command, Defense Atomic
Support Agency, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Element of the Field
Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency at Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. In August, 1961, he organized and assumed command of the 2nd Region,
United States Army Air Defense Command at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, serving
simultaneously as Deputy Commander of the 32nd Region of the North American
Air Defense Command. Returning to Colorado Springs, Colorado in November,
1962, he became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Air Defense
Command, the Army component of the North American Air Defense Command.
In August, 1965, he was assigned as Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group
to the Republic of China, and Commanding General of United States Army Forces
there, with headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Returning again to Colorado Springs, Colorado in July, 1967, he was assigned to
Headquarters, United States Army Air Defense Command, prior to his retirement by
law on 1 August 1967 after thirty years of service as an officer, and five years in the
permanent grade of Major General.
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General Johnson is widowed to the former Miss Elizabeth Wright Rule of Westfield,
New Jersey and now makes his home in the Broadmoor area of Colorado Springs. He
has three married children; Dwight B. Jr., Hugh Rodman, and Christine.
Among his military awards and decorations, General Johnson holds the Distinguished
Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the American Defense Service
Medal, the American Theater Medal, the Asiatic-pacific Theater Medal, the World
War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation Medal (Japan), the National Defense
Service Medal, the Philippine Liberation Medal, the Philippine Presidential Citation,
and the Korean Order of Military Merit, Ulchi with Silver Star.