The Military Academy Class of 2024 achieved its first academic year milestone by celebrating Plebe Weekend March 5-6 at West Point. The festivities kicked off with the Plebe Banquet March 5 at the Cadet Mess Hall. (Above) Guest speaker for the evening, retired Col. Gregory Gadson, talks to the audience during the plebe banquet about his Army experience and the importance of the Long Gray Line in his life after sustaining life-threatening injuries in Iraq in 2007.

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