A Military Education at West Point
We answer a question about the college that prepares men and women to be army officers, and not just for the U.S. Army. Transcript of radio broadcast:
13 January 2010
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Today we answer a question from Brazil. Claudio Messias Gentil wants to know about the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point celebrate graduation
West Point is a college for future Army officers. It has more than four thousand students, called cadets. The school is located about eighty kilometers north of New York City.
West Point is the oldest continuously occupied military post in the United States. General George Washington built a fort there during the Revolutionary War to protect the Hudson River from the British. He moved his headquarters to West Point in seventeen seventy-nine in the middle of the war.
In eighteen hundred and two, President Thomas Jefferson signed legislation to establish the military academy. The education centered on civil engineering. West Point graduates designed many roads, bridges, harbors and railways for the young nation.
Today, math and science are still a large part of the education. But cadets can choose from almost fifty areas of study. If cadets major in the humanities, they must have an engineering minor.
Not all the young men and women at West Point are American. This year, fifty-eight are from other countries. Up to sixty cadets can be international students.
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