fun and debauchery, while class-

mates called each other out for

their less than stellar cadet mo-

ments.

So let us reminisce on this aca-

demic year and remember the

good times while we learn from

the bad. And may we never for-

get the bonds that we have made

in this company.

This semester‟s dining-in was a

great time! With the year wind-

ing down, Firsties can see the

light at the end of the tunnel,

Cows are ready to get their rings

and finally be Firsties, Yearlings

are ready to stop being plebes

with privileges, and Plebes are

excited to be real people again.

This year‟s dining-in was to serve

as a bonding experience for all

the Gamecocks. People took the

time out of their busy schedules

to sit down and spend time to-

gether on a Friday night.

The night was led by Matt Sime-

one „11, playing the role of Mr.

President while August Pope „11,

as Mr. Vice, served as his en-

forcer. The night was filled with

As promised, C-3 has transi-

tioned to wearing the new com-

pany patch on the Black Jackets!

New patches (top right) are

available at the Cadet Store for

purchase. To add to the new face

of C-3, Spiritivities Staff has pro-

vided the company with a couple

additional spirit items.

Even though they‟re not the

iconic rubber chickens of the

past, the new generation of

rubber chickens are travel size

and entertaining (top right).

In addition, C-3 cadets were

able to purchase customized

Gamecock “Hoodies” (bottom

right). The new hoodies are

both eye-catching and fresh.

Watch out corps, the new C-3

Gamecock image is here!

C3’s Company Dining-In By Sarah Florer ‘11

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Spirit Mission? 2

C-3 Brothers 2

TAC Trouble 3

Mascot Outfit 3

Thanks Dictator 4

Restrictions 4

Fighting Cocks 5

TACs of C3 5

Sandhurst 6

Brigade Staff 6

Leadership 7

Optimism 9

Perspective 9

Editor’s Letter 10 New C3 Spirit Items

C H A R L I E C O M P A N Y ,

3 R D R E I G M E N T , U S C C

amecock

azette A P R I L 2 0 1 1 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

S N I P P E T S

O N P A GE S :

2 - C3 Beer Mug

4 - Army-ND Game

5 - C3 Saber

6 - Brigade Champs

8 - History Author

Comic Strips related to

Cadet Life – See Page 8

Left: C-3 Cadets enjoy a group photo after the Dining-In. Right: Mitch McDonald „11 and Tori Prohoda „11 prepare for the toasts.

P A G E 2

Snippet #1

“I was in C-3 when it

decided to be

known as the

Fighting Cocks… I

still have my beer

mug with the

Fighting Cocks

logo.” (bottom, far

left)

-Robert Jetland „68

C3’s attempted

Spirit Mission on the

Plain

Fighting Cock Brothers by JP Phillips ‘96

C-9 Spirit Mission? By Anonymous, C3 Class of 2005

If you look really hard at the

grass between Washington

statue and the apron, you'll see

a dark pattern on the grass

that looks like a "C" and a "9."

As you may have guessed by

now, it was supposed to be "C

-3."

During our yearling year, my

plebe told me about this prank

he pulled at his local golf

course. They gradually added

fertilizer to an area of the golf

course, so after several weeks,

the grass in that area grew

thicker and darker than the

rest. Our plan was to do that

behind Washington Statue.

Unfortunately, several factors

doomed our mission. Fertil-

izer was far cheaper than we

anticipated, so we bought way

too much. We didn't read the

directions closely, so we just

filled up a bunch of trash cans

and off we went. One of us,

who was a bit disoriented at

night, started to make the C

where the three should be,

and the extra length turned

the three into a nine. The

next morning, we could see

large clumps of fertilizer

mounded above the grass. By

day two, the grass had started

to die. We had completely

burned a C-9 into the grass by

day four. The plain mainte-

nance crew dug up the dead

grass, but the new sod was a

different color, so we did

achieve our goal.

Although we had very clearly

(but unintentionally) destroyed

a section of the second most

expensive lawn in America,

none of us got in trouble. It

wasn't until a few years ago I

found out our cadet company

commander took most of the

heat for it.

No, I will never forget the day

because the night before, 5

plebes came into my room,

drug me into the latrines, and

put me face down in the

shower. I was screaming that

my roommates would kill them

only to see my Fightin' Cock

brothers Brett Brewer and

Josh Hobson smiling back at

me.

Then a "2" was written in

EDGE DRESSING on each of

my exposed gluteus maximi.

The burn went away (after a

long time), the picture was

lost, but thanks to my C-3

Fighting Cock brothers, I will

NEVER forget the date that I

proposed!

I proposed to my wife on April

22, 1995. I will NEVER forget

the date. Not because it was

Sandhurst Saturday and I blew

post in the morning to go to

the city to buy the ring. Not

because I came back, signed

out "legally" and took my girl

to the top of the Empire State

Building to propose.

Historical Timeline of Company C-3’s Logos and Icons — Images supplied by the West Point Howitzers

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Hours of TAC Trouble By Stephen King ‘89

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

You asked about hours. I served 82

hours, spread out from my plebe year to

my firstie year more or less evenly. Big-

gest punishment was a 25/20, and I did lots

of 8/4s and 8/8s.

My TAC hated me, first because of all the

little trouble I got into (I was the plebe

who started an ice fight at breakfast, back

when plebes had to go to breakfast, by

using a spoon and salt shaker as a make-

shift catapult for an ice cube...landed the

my second shot right in Lynette Bruecker's

plate, and she threw it back at me).

My cow year started with me "making

headlines" according to him because while

I was in Germany on CTLT I managed to

bounce a check to the PX at the post near

Mannheim; the routing slip contained the

initials of the entire COC up to and in-

cluding the CG-USAREUR, across to the

Supe, and back down the COC at West

Point. Oopsie.

Then, over Thanksgiving that year, I got

caught with a plebe girl in my room in the

barracks (hey, we were just eating pizza,

really!) and I ended up getting out of it

with just an 8/8 due to the timing of the

regimental boards and the plebe's regi-

mental TAC being sympathetic...seemed

like I'd presented him with a mortal insult

that time.

What most of my classmates still probably

don't know is that at one point in my sen-

ior year I got out the regs book and

checked off every one I'd broken, and

made a point of breaking the rest of them

that year just because it sounded like a

challenge. I even managed to miss taps by

20 minutes the night before my class's

graduation...but the regimental CIC had

gone to bed so there was nobody to re-

port me to.

Mascot Outfit By Tom Eisiminger, Jr. ‘84

Left is the 1984 Firstie Photo

that was published in The

Howitzer – believe it was the

only picture with a company

mascot pictured. I am the

guy in the C-3 Fighting Cock

outfit. You may also

recognize the 7th guy from

the left as COL Dan Rice

from the Law Dept. Two of

our members are deceased –

Don Little 2nd from Right

top row and Todd Moriarity

2nd from Left.

Historical Timeline of Company C-3’s Logos and Icons — Images supplied by the West Point Howitzers

P A G E 4

Snippet #2

“As plebes in 1969,

our first trip outside

the gate was to

New York City and

Yankee Stadium.

The entire Corps went

down for the Notre

Dame game. It was

memorable for lots of

reasons: history, bus

ride, march on the field

etc. This past

November, I got

together with my old

C3 roommate, Bill

Dougherty, and the 2

of us made the trip to

Yankee Stadium to

watch the Army- ND

rivalry renew in the new

Yankee Stadium.

Other than the $40

parking outside the

Stadium, it was quite

nostalgic and a great

memory. Go Army!!!”

- Mike Colbert „73

Anastasio Somoza

Debayle (above)

ruled Nicaragua

from 1967 to 1979

Hours and Restrictions By Scott Hamilton ‘96

Thanks, Dictator By COL(R) Lucas Brennecke ‘70

Here‟s a unique story about

rule-breaking and redemption

involving a couple of C-3

“Cocks” as we were known

back then.

In 1970, another C-3 classmate

(name withheld) and I (along

with other regimental staff

members) were serving on 3rd

Regimental staff. Coming back

(perhaps a bit tipsy) from a

rare off-post “outing”, we

were observed (by the MPs)

doing something we “allegedly”

should not have been doing.

As we ran up the ramp to

what was then known as “New

South Barracks” (barracks

were much later changed to

“Lee” and “Sherman”), the MP

car was unable to pursue be-

cause someone “allegedly”

pulled the stop sign across the

ramp. Loudly verbalizing while

chasing us on foot, the MPs

aroused the ire of some cadets

who “allegedly” yelled and

threw things out their win-

dows at the MPs.

The next day, several of us

were called to the TAC‟s office

and informed that we were

being written up for: (1)

Gross lack of judgment, (2)

Resisting arrest; (3) Destruc-

tion of government property;

and (4) Inciting a riot. I don‟t

remember the bottom line of

the “slug”, but needless to say

we would still be walking the

area.

It just so happened that we

had a classmate who was a

foreign cadet from Nicara-

gua. He happened to get in

trouble for an unrelated

event. Back then, if a foreign

head of state visited West

Point, he could petition the

superintendent to pardon all

cadets serving punishments.

Our classmate‟s uncle was

Anastasio Somoza, the brutal

dictator of Nicaragua and a

1946 West Point grad. So-

moza, in response to the re-

quest by his nephew, immedi-

ately visited West Point for an

“unofficial” visit during which

time he petitioned the superin-

tendent to grant general am-

nesty. The Supe, thankfully,

obliged.

Bottom Line: None of us

ever walked an hour thanks to

the actions of a Latin American

dictator.

victories, which seem to be

lacking since I left. I was also

scheduled to help with the

Goat "cadet borrowing" esca-

pade in '96. Unfortunately, my

hours were extended for some

long hair demerits or blowing

post.

While I was at the academy,

I was in A-3 "animal house"

and the C-3 fighting cocks. I

Pertaining to the area of "the

area," I was one of two De-

cember Grads from the class

of '96 (Rob Griffin being the

other). I can't even remember

the number hours I walked

(20,40,60,90 for the big

boards, not to include the 5-

10s here and there), sat, and/

or "work detailed" (i.e. - re-

graveled flirty walk). Not to

mention the months of restric-

tion. Room restriction was

built in to the Officer-in-

Charge and Non-

commissioned Officer-in-

Charge‟s schedule and I would

have smoke breaks with the

OIC and NCOIC during room

checks.

One of the positives results

from all that is I was present

for five straight Army/Navy

did have one semester on

brigade staff as a color ser-

geant and carried the Army

flag. And for your information,

animal house changed to assas-

sins after my first semester

yuck year due to the number

of boards and hours. There

were some weekends where

we had almost 90% of the

company on tours...

(Left) The

entrance

to Flirta-

tion Walk

and its

gravel

pathway

Fondness of Name Fighting Cocks By Marc Erlandson ‘71

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

Count me among those upset with chang-

ing the name from Fighting Cocks to

Gamecocks. I know that the words are

synonymous, but Gamecocks sounds more

like a dish in a fancy restaurant than a

group of warriors. I read your explana-

tion, but I suspect there is a lot more to

the story.

I think it is a little sad. Did you know that

the Fighting Cocks is the name of the old-

est pub in England? (Bottom Left)

It is also the mascot of one of the

most storied Army Air Corps

fighter squadrons of WWII that

provided the first ground based

fighter support for the Guadalca-

nal campaign. Check out the

patch of the 67th Fighter Squad-

ron. (Right)

There is nothing I know called the

Gamecocks other than a bunch of

rummies from the University of

South Carolina.

Good luck with this project. I‟ll

look for some stories and pictures for you

to share in futures issues. It was fun to

see a lot of folks I knew in those early 70‟s

team photos.

Schwar and his wife took them in.

(I had the opportunity to meet then

- Secretary of State Powell when he

visited Poland in 2004 and he still

fondly remembered the Schwars

and their kindness.)

Our Tac for my Yearling and Cow

years was MAJ William Scudder, IN

(USMA '60). MAJ Scudder became

the (unwitten) model for a bit char-

acter in Lucian Truscott IV's con-

troversial novel, Army Blue; the

character was a Tac who nick-

named his daughter "Rangerette"

and loved the way that Ty-D-Bol

turned the water in the toilet bowl

"Infantry Blue."

For my Firstie year, our Tac was

MAJ Dan Schroeder, EN (USNA

'61) who went on to become the

highest-ranking Naval Academy

graduate to serve in the Army,

retiring as Deputy Commanding

General of USAREUR as a LTG.

I thought you might be interested in

a few vignettes about the three

Tacs of C-3 when I was a cadet

from 1968-71. My Plebe Year, our

Tac was MAJ Joseph Schwar, IN

(USMA '58). In GEN Colin Powell's

autobiography, My American Jour-

ney, he relates how, when he and

his wife reported to Ft Benning

during the days of segregation, they

were unable to find adequate hous-

ing in the area and that then-LT

Tactical Officers of C3 By Jim Bond ‘71 Snippet #3

“I know the

origin of the C3

saber. It goes

back to 2000-

2001

academic

year. I was in

C3 as the Spirit

Officer and my

Spirit NCO of

whom will soon

be a TAC here

bought the

saber.”

-MAJ Pope „01,

DMI Instructor

P A G E 6

(from left to right)

CDTs Xin ‘11, Fer-

nandez ‘11, Tata ‘14,

and Gregor ‘11 run

through the cold win-

ter air in preparation

for Sandhurst

Working for Brigade By Laquesha Fraser ‘12

Prep-ing for Sandhurst By Steven Tata ‘14

Since January, the C-3

Sandhurst team has been

working hard in prepara-

tion for the upcoming

competition. Members

of the team are squad

leader Steven Gregor,

Richard Coleman-

Dodson, Tyler Feder-

wisch, Kevin Magdiel,

Steven Tata, Christian

Reeves, Tianyi Xin, Mi-

chael Tougher, Aaron

Fernandez, Matthew

Burke, Nathan Ryba, and

Kirk Brandenburg. Over the

course of the season we have

come a very long way, becom-

ing a stronger team and tight-

knit group of friends. The

practice atmosphere is focused

and intense, but never lacks

humor. The dedication and

talent of each member has led

to vast improvements over the

course of the year. At the

beginning of the year many

members did not know each

other too well, but the team

has become a family. Overall it

has been a great experience

for every member and our

progression shows this. From

morning gear runs to hallway

ab workouts, every member

has become better in multiple

aspects. The competition will

be held from April 15 – 16,

2011 and will include teams

from all 32 companies and

several foreign military acad-

emies. The team has practice

every day of the week after

classes, and in addition goes to

a minimum of three workouts

at 0520 during the week.

Workouts typically consist of

MOLLE gear runs, weight lift-

ing in Arvin Gymnasium, and

practicing skills used in the

competition such as the one

rope bridge, land navigation, a

boat site, and knowledge of

combat first aid. We also

spent time practicing assembly,

disassembly, and functions of

various weapons, including the

M240B, M249 SAW, M9 pistol,

and AK-47. Throughout the

season, the team went to the

range several times to improve

marksmanship on the M4 as-

sault rifle. After months of

practice, the C-3 Sandhurst

team is certainly ready for the

competition and is expected to

perform incredibly.

ing excel files for computer

training, and updating the

programs on the MACOM

radios in the Corps. Unfortu-

nately next year I will not be

in the company again be-

cause I just got the position

of Respect Information Sys-

tems Officer on Brigade Staff;

dealing with even more

computers and websites. In

my free time I enjoy listening

to music, watching comedy

movies and documentaries.

When I tell people I like to

watch documentaries they

never fail to ask what kind,

but I honestly don‟t have a

preference. I just go on Net-

flix and browse around. In a

very small nutshell that was a

brief description of me.

Last semester I was not in a

company leadership posi-

tion, so I wanted to formally

introduce myself to the

“Gamecock Community,” To

get the basics out of the

way, here are a few things

about myself:

Hometown: Fort Hood, Texas

Major: Psychology

Sport: Rabble Rouser

Height: 4‟ 10 ¾”

As most of you know, from

my constant recycling up-

dates, I am the community

service NCO this semester.

The position that detached

me from the company last

semester was Brigade A/S-6.

My job for the most part con-

sisted of fixing printers, creat-

Snippet #4

“C-3 won the Brigade

Basketball Champion-

ship in 1966. Me, one

Yearling, and the rest

plebes. Great

team… C3 also won

the brigade champi-

onship in Lacrosse in

1977.”

- COL(R) Don

Kotchman „79

Leadership Page from BS&L By Nick Hochertz ‘11

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

So funny thing, there is a LEAD-

ERSHIP major at West Point. I‟ve had peo-

ple ask “wait, aren‟t we all supposed to be

leadership „majors‟ ?”. Yes and no. A true

professional will study his/her field in a

systematic and factual way, not just by war

stories or trial and error. There is a very

large body of research on leadership, how

many cadets and even officers have studied

this huge body of literature? No, Band of

Brother‟s does not count, but it is a great

mini series. There are surprisingly few

people who go beyond anecdotal examples

of leadership. War stories are great. When

a veteran talks about amazing experiences

about saving a man‟s life we can learn a

great deal. However there is always that

one individual who will recount his war

story and you‟re left thinking, “Wait you

did what?! Is that even legal? That‟s not

legal. Whoa, that is messed up!” This is

where research comes in handy. If a com-

mander thinks that a distant authoritarian

approach is always better, then us cadets

can look at what we‟ve studied and think,

“Well the Hawthorne effect says that

genuine compassion for followers will elicit

greater trust, commitment, and purpose,

and has proven to reduce PTSD by 70% in

some combat units….” then maybe a Cap-

tain Sobel- type leader will be developed

by his followers‟ feedback and knowledge.

So I am actually going to get to

the point I wanted to make. Don‟t worry

this long diatribe does have a thesis…well

no not really I‟m just highlighting some

interesting leadership lessons I‟ve learned

through intensive study (by intensive study

I also mean by making a lot of mistakes!).

So if you‟re still interested, I‟m amazed,

thanks for reading. Here‟s what I‟m going

to talk about: self insight, humility, and the

developmental relationship between a

leader and a follower (for you paper writ-

ers who are wincing at my thesis formula-

tion, I‟m sorry, it is terrible, but this is a

Gamecock article; I do what I want).

The first and probably the last

thing a leader will do in his or her life is

exploring self insight. It‟s a continuous

thing. We will never stop learning about

ourselves or life. Self-insight leads to self-

identity which is the path West Point

wants to set us on. The Cadet Leadership

Development System (CLDS) is a docu-

ment that is the foundation for leadership

development at West Point that no one

knows or follows. There are some high

quality stuff in there; reading it made me

less cynical. To help us with understanding

ourselves we need feedback and reflection.

Tools that aid this are active listening,

AAR‟s (not the crappy kind that spend a

whopping 68 seconds on), and my favorite

is ask “why” about everything big and

small. When we get to know ourselves

better then we can understand others

better. When we have a concrete self-

identity we can then be ourselves in any

situation. We aren‟t fake, we become

principled which leads to adaptive leader-

ship, others perceive us with a sense of

authenticity which is essentially the defini-

tion of “Leader of Character”.

Don‟t worry the next two points

are shorter. We must be humble. We are

servants. This is key. Humility will take us

from being prideful and abrasive. We are

open to learning and becoming much bet-

ter. Relationships will flourish, we become

more transformational because we em-

power others and are able to influence

them more. Think of it this way, if you are

not humble then you will probably be that

guy that apparently knows everything, was

born perfect and has a defensive annoying

answer for every mistake. So don‟t be that

guy!

The last thing I‟ll say is about the

relationship between leader and follower

then I‟ll get off the soap box. People have a

tendency to think that all power and

knowledge resides in the leader. That is

not so. You know a good bit, you can help.

A leader may be trying to develop you, but

you as a follower also develop the leader.

A good leader will realize this and encour-

age feedback from his team so he can

become better. Feedback doesn‟t have to

be a “Periodic Development Review” in

fact that system is almost useless besides

some paper pushing bureaucracy (it‟s in

part useless because we make it useless).

Feedback can be a five minute conversa-

tion or hundreds of different things. Our

job as followers is to help our leaders

become better through our feedback and

support. If a leader is sucking hard at his

or her job, then help them do better!

Nick Hochertz „11 dresses up as his

favorite superhero for Halloween

Nick Hochertz „11 (in white) sets the

example as the Judo Team Captain and

prepares to throw his opponent.

P A G E 8

The Funnies Page Related to Cadet Life… Kind of…

Snippet #5

“Where the

heck did you

find that his-

tory?” (Referring

to last issue’s ar-

ticle, The Start of

C3) My memory

may be weak,

but am pretty

sure I wrote that

back in 85-86 for

MAJ (now LTG)

Durbin who was

our TAC at the

time. Many

hours spent cull-

ing the registry

of graduates…

oh what fun to

be had.”

- LTC(R) David

Chapman „88

Making the Best of Things By Tian Tian Xin ‘11

P A G E 9 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3

It was a dark and stormy night. A

harsh and unforgiving wind swept up from the

Hudson River and lashed the bare, gray gran-

ite walls of Eisenhower Barracks into submis-

sion. Three plebes sat huddled in their room,

impounded into their rooms by the threat of

upperclassmen on the prowl in the hallways

and the cruel elements lurking outside their

windows. Deprived of external sources of

entertainment and their lives void of any sem-

blance of joy, the three plebes looked around

their room in desperation to find amongst

their only haven in hell a scrap of fun or an

inkling of delight.

“I am SO BORED!” said Leeann.

“There‟s nothing to do and we have nowhere

to go,” said Tian Tian. “But there must be

something for us to do in this room,” mut-

tered Carissa, looking across her room from

her desk, scanning up and down across the

cabinets and the bureaus. “There‟s nothing

here but a bunch of wardrobes, cabinets, and

furniture. What could we possibly do with

that? Pretend to go to Narnia?” asked

Leeann. And suddenly, inspiration struck-- a

juvenile sense of daring and adventure rushed

over the three girls. “I bet you can‟t fit in

those overhead cabinets,” taunted Tian Tian.

“Oh I bet you I can,” replied Carissa.

Carissa, Tian Tian, and Leeann leapt

up from their desks and ran to the other side

of the room. Looking up at the overhead

cabinets and the wardrobes, they quickly

devised a game to fit into as many of the

compartments in their room as possible. The

following pictures document their adventures:

“I bet you can’t fit in those

overhead cabinets...”

Tian Tian Xin, C3 ‟11 (wearing the white USMA sweat-

shirt) and Carissa Hauck, F3 ‟11 (wearing black USAA t-

shirt) hanging around and having fun as plebes.

Moral of the story: West Point is what you make of it. For those of you with more than double digits

left, have fun while you’re here! Sometimes it’s cold, damp, and dreary… but with a few good friends, a

little bit of creativity, and the willingness to not act your age, there’s always a silver lining to be found :D

An Outside Perspective By Sang-won Jung ‘12

I respect West Point cadets‟ passion to pursue

knowledge, physical excellence and military

skills. The Middle Age scholars noted that the

purpose of liberal education is not to make

money, but to be free people. It‟s a well-

known fact that cadets have such a heavy

schedule based on many core classes, including

math, english, psychology, philosophy, physics,

chemistry, foreign language, politics, interna-

tional relations, geology, and history. Some

cadets don‟t sleep much to finish their essays

and projects. Other cadets take in all different

kinds of caffeine such as coffee, soda, and en-

ergy drink to push through their day. But, I

respect their efforts to strive for knowledge.

Not only do cadets strive to be smarter and

obtain knowledge, but also they endeavor to

be better future military officers. Cadets have

far less summer and winter breaks than nor-

mal college students and don‟t have many

chances to freely go out during weekends as

well as weekdays. Instead, it is routine for

cadets to lift weights, play their sports, per-

form their duties, and conduct military train-

ing. Everyday I see cadets absolutely deter-

I was privileged to attend the United States

Military Academy during my sophomore year

from the Korean Military Academy. It was very

difficult to describe how thrilled I was since I

knew that the United States had one of the

mightiest armies in the world. I was very ex-

cited about receiving American military train-

ing, education, and leadership experiences at

West Point. Studying at West Point and inter-

acting with outstanding cadets has been such a

pleasure for me.

mined and motivated to conduct vigorous

physical and military training.

More importantly, I highly respect

the cadets‟ patriotism. Every single cadet

knows that he or she will get deployed at

some point in their career, lead soldiers, and

fight for America. They also know they might

get wounded or even killed, because it‟s part

of warfare. But they all know that their sacri-

fice is not for themselves, but for all the be-

loved American people in order to defend

their way of life. Without their noble sacrifice,

no one in the United States would be able to

soundly sleep at night and enjoy their freedom.

Aristotle highlights that virtue, the essence of

the perfect life, can be attained through habit

and the repetition of similar activities. West

Point is the very place where all the cadets

refine their skills, receive knowledge, and pre-

pare to lead for a better American future

through the repetition and their efforts. I‟m

honored to study with these extraordinary

American cadets, build relationships, and pur-

sue to better serve respective countries.

(Left to right) Matt Burke „12, Adam Despang „13, and

Sang-won Jung „12 share a Christmas Dinner together.

Since I am about to graduate and leave C-

3, I am passing off the reins of this news-

letter to the next generation of C-3 ca-

dets. CDT Alexis Salmon „14 will be tak-

ing over the Gamecock Gazette and will

start off by heading up this semester‟s last

issue. We ask Old Grads to send advice

for the Class of 2011 as they join the

ranks of US Army Officers. In addition to

publishing those graduation hints, we will

also provide company superlatives and

memoirs from the graduating class. Now

a few words from next years editor:

“Hello Gamecocks!

My name is CDT

Alexis Salmon and

since CDT Fong will be

leaving USMA this

summer, I will be

taking over as editor

of the Gamecock

Gazette. I am very

excited to become a

part of this paper, and

I have a lot of con-

cepts and ideas for the

upcoming issues. Please feel free to contact

me with any future comments or suggestions

My West Point experience is quickly

coming to an end, and while I look for-

ward to leaving this stony prison, I can‟t

help but fondly remember the great times

I‟ve had as a member of the C-3 Game-

cocks. This last semester has been ex-

tremely busy with balancing the demands

of a mechanical engineering major with a

new capstone project, club volleyball, and

my job as the company historian. How-

ever, the work that I‟ve done as C-3‟s

historian has been one of the best pro-

jects I‟ve done at West Point. I often find

myself working on the Gamecock Gazette

rather than working on my homework. I

can definitely say I‟ve left my mark at

West Point.

While creating a new company patch was

a great experience, this newsletter is the

project that I am most proud of. I‟m able

to connect multiple generations of C-3

graduates and cadets and share their ideas

and experiences. It has been great to read

all the crazy stories of the past as well as

the achievements of C-3 graduates today.

I hope to see this newsletter continue on

so that one day I can write back to C-3 to

share my cadet experiences.

you may have pertaining to the gazette.

Thank you for your time and look out for

some great upcoming issues!”

As the outgoing C-3 Historian, I would

like to thank you all for reading and con-

tributing to the Gamecock Gazette be-

cause it wouldn‟t have been possible with-

out you. I hope you‟ve enjoyed reading

this issue and keep an eye out for the

next issue.

Respectfully,

CDT Kyle Fong

Company C-3, USCC

Class of 2011, USMA

Company C-3 TAC Officer:

MAJ Arthur Rutnarak

(845) 938-2101

arthur.rutnarak@usma.edu

Company C-3 TAC NCO:

SFC Scott Swanson

(845) 938-2694

scott.swanson2@usma.edu

Just like the last two issues, The Gamecock Gazette solicits you to

share more of your stories about your cadet, military, and civilian

experiences. The Gamecock Gazette connects current C-3 Cadets

with the Old Graduates of C-3, keeping people informed with a

few good laughs. This newsletter will also document C-3‟s history

in the making.

For May’s Issue, we ask graduates to send in helpful points of

advice for the graduating class of 2011, from leadership hints

to housing and finance advice. Help the Class of 2011 start

their careers off right.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the news-

letter, please get in touch with C-3 through any of the contacts to

the left.

Thank you for all of your contributions and stories. This newsletter

couldn‟t have worked without your help and support. We hope

you‟ve enjoyed another issue of the Gamecock Gazette and its new

format… Publisher just made it easier to create the newsletter.

GAMECOCK GAZETTE

Charlie Company, 3rd Regiment, USCC

Letter From the Editor by Kyle Fong ‘11

GG‟s new editor:

Alexis Salmon „14

Company Historian:

CDT LT Kyle Fong

P.O. Box 1255

West Point, NY 10997

(845) 515-4467

kyle.fong@us.army.mil

Next Year’s Editor:

CDT PVT Alexis Salmon

P.O. Box 3586

West Point, NY 10997

(845) 515-5485s