Public Affairs Officer blog
By Caitlin VanOverberghe Staff writer They traveled from across the country, many meeting for the first time in the Louisville airport in the middle of June. They were strangers then, but things have changed. Saturday morning, as they stood under a cloudy sky on their graduation day, Leader’s Training Course Commander Col. Eric Winkie...
By Caitlin VanOverberghe Staff writer With their flight from Maine landing Thursday morning in Louisville, Patti Davis found herself searching for a way to fill the time before she was reunited with her daughter, Christine, Friday afternoon at the Bravo Company family day. “We thought about sneaking on to base and trying to find...
By Caitlin VanOverberghe Staff writer There comes a day toward the end of a company’s time at the Leader’s Training Course when, under a dark, early morning sky, Cadets are given a moment to celebrate with a ceremony known as the rites of passage — an event that marks the official end of...
By Thomas Gounley Staff writer For being 2 at the time, it’s a very vivid image. Bravo Cadet Destiny Martell was in the water at the beach on Coney Island, near where she lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., when she was knocked down by the waves and caught underwater. Looking up and seeing the...
By Thomas Gounley Staff writer Tuesday morning, Bravo Company Cadet Lorena Tepan, of St. John’s University in New York, laid down in the prone position at Fort Knox’s Handiboe Range, aimed at the silhouette on the post 25 meters away and, for the first time in her life, pulled the trigger. “I thought I...