West Point classes in 2022 tossed caps in the air, marking the start-up and commissioning ceremony on Saturday.
More than 1,000 cadet enthusiasts took part in the traditional throw to mark the end of four years at America’s most prestigious military academy, located in upstate New York.
During the graduation ceremony, Army General Mark Millie, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged cadets to prepare for future wars that bear little resemblance to modern ones.
“The world you enter has the potential for significant international conflicts between great powers. And that potential is increasing, not decreasing, ”Millie told the cadets.
The cadets finished their training in glorious sunshine as the northeast warmed up on one of the hottest May days in history, and the good weather seemed to further heighten the atmosphere among the already excited graduates.
During the ceremony and performance they were filmed in neat rows in immaculate form, but were also filmed as they hugged each other with affectionate huge.
The cadets successfully completed New York Academy courses and were promoted to the rank of senior lieutenant in the army.
After graduation, cadets will be trained planning, training, and military operations during officers ’base courses.
They will then have to choose from more than 36 specialties before being sent to the occupying army for three years.
Approximately 1,000 enthusiastic cadets tossed hats to mark the end of four years at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point
Cadets of class 2022 celebrate their graduation during the ceremony of admission to the US Military Academy West Point on May 21
For the first time, they were trained in army planning, training and operations during the Officers’ Basic Courses
Millie, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a graduation speech to 1,014 cadets of the 2022 U.S. Military Academy class.
Millie has painted a bleak picture of a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, with large powers seeking to change the global order.
He told West Point cadet alumni that they would be responsible for making America ready.
“Regardless of the fact that we, the United States, have won military power over the last 70 years, are closing fast, and, in fact, the United States will challenge in every area of warfare, space, cyber, naval, air and of course, land Said Millie.
America, he said, is no longer the undisputed world power.
Instead, it is being tested in Europe as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, in Asia as a result of China’s sharp economic and military growth, and in North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, and in the Middle East and Africa by terrorist instability.
Millie has painted a bleak picture of a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, with large powers seeking to change the global order
West Point cadet graduates that they will be responsible for making America ready, Millie said
Drawing a parallel with what military officials see in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Millie said a future war would be very difficult, with elusive enemies and an urban war that requires accurate long-range weapons and new advanced technologies
Drawing a parallel with what military officials see in Russia’s war against Ukraine, Millie said the future war would be very difficult, with elusive enemies and a city war that requires accurate long-range weapons and new advanced technologies.
The United States is already throwing new high-tech drones and other weapons at Ukrainian troops, in some cases equipment that was only in the early stages of a prototype.
Weapons like the kamikaze Switchblade drones, which are launched from the shoulder, are used against the Russians, even if they are still developing.
And as the war in Ukraine has shifted – from Russia’s failed battle for Kyiv to a fierce urban battle for cities in the eastern Donbass – the need for different weapons has changed.
The first weeks focused on high-precision long-range weapons such as the Stinger and Javelin missiles, but now the focus is on artillery and increasing howitzer supplies.
Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy attend the graduation ceremony
Lieutenant General and Superintendent Daryl A. Williams speaks at the opening ceremony at West Point in 2022
Graduate cadets hug each other during the entry ceremony
And over the next 25-30 years the fundamental nature of war and its weapons will continue to change.
The U.S. military, Millie said, cannot hold on to old concepts and weapons, but must urgently modernize and develop forces and equipment that can deter or, if necessary, win the global conflict.
And the officers’ graduates, he said, will have to change the way American forces think, train and fight.
According to tomorrow’s army leaders, Millie said, the new lieutenants will fight with the help of robotic tanks, ships and planes, as well as rely on artificial intelligence, synthetic fuel, 3-D production and human technology.
“Your generation will bear the burden and responsibility for maintaining peace, deterring and preventing the outbreak of great powers,” he said.
In stern terms, Millie described what it looks like to fail to prevent wars between great powers.
“Note that 26,000 – 26,000 – soldiers and marines were killed in just six weeks from October to November 1918 at the Battle of Maas Argon in World War I,” Millie said.
“Also note that 26,000 American soldiers were killed in the eight weeks of the summer of 1944 from the beaches of Normandy to the liberation of Paris.”
Officer graduates, Millie said, will have to change the way American forces think, train and fight
Excited recent West Point graduates congratulate each other
Recalling the 58,000 Americans killed in the summer of 1944 alone during World War II, he added: “This is the human cost of the war of the great powers.” Butcher’s account.
Recalling his own graduation, Millie paraphrased Bob Dylan’s popular song of the time: “We feel a light breeze in the air. And right now, as we sit here on the plains of West Point, we can see storm flags fluttering in the wind. We hear a loud thunder in the distance. Heavy rain is about to come. “
