Sergeant. Stephen Hicks, West Point Medical Dept. Detachment, places the first slice of the Army's birthday cake on the Fallen Comrades table during the West Point Army Birthday celebration on June 16. West Point marked the Army's 234th birthday wit...

Sergeant Stephen Hicks (foreground) waits to cut the Army birthday cake during the West Point Army Birthday ceremony on June 16 at the West Point Club. Hicks, the youngest non-commissioned officer at West Point, joined the senior NCO and youngest an...

Rosalie Wells plays "America the Beautiful" on her violin during the West Point Army Birthday celebration on June 16. Rosalie and her father, Command Sgt. Maj. Martin Wells, the U.S. Military Academy senior enlisted advisor, performed a musical slid...

Command Sgt. Maj. Martin Wells presents U.S. Military Academy coins to the boy scouts and cub scouts following their recitation of the "Pledge of Allegiance" during the West Point Army Birthday celebration on June 16. The ceremony included Soldiers,...

Boy Scouts and a lone Cub Scout lead the audience in the "Pledge of Allegiance" during the Army Birthday ceremony at the West Point Club on June 16. The West Point ceremony included a symbolic placement of the campaign streamers on the Army Flag, pa...

Sergeant Gabriel Garcia, right, takes the Oath of Enlistment during the West Point Army Birthday celebration on June 16 at the West Point Club. This year has been a banner year for West Point as it is the first Army command to meet, and exceed, its ...

Sergeant Steven Christiansen, left, holds his promotion certificate along with Capt. Jamie Bazdaric following Christiansen's promotion during the Army Birthday ceremony on June 16. The promotion was part of West Point's Army Birthday ceremony. (Pho...

Sergeant 1st Class MaryKay Messenger sings "God Bless America" during the West Point Army Birthday ceremony on June 16 at the West Point Club. Messenger, a vocalist with the West Point Band, also led the audience in singing "Happy Birthday" before t...

Specialist Stephen Bonett, U.S. Army Garrison Chaplain's Office, holds the Global War on Terrorism campaign streamers before placing them on the Army Flag during the West Point Army Birthday ceremony. Seven Soldiers, including Bonett, placed groups ...

Master Sgt. Santiago Perales, U.S. Military Academy Operations NCOIC, attaches 57 campaign streamers, representing the Army's participation in wars through the Civil War, during West Point's Army Birthday ceremony on June 16. Perales and six other S...

Master Sgt. Santiago Perales, along with six other Soldiers, holds campaign streamers before placing them on the Army Flag during the Army Birthday ceremony at West Point, June 16. The ceremony, held in the West Point Club ballroom, marked the Army'...

Specialist Racheal Ehrmantraut, West Point Medical Co., sings the national anthem at the start of the West Point Army Birthday celebration on June 16. The West Point community, to include Soldiers, Family members and civilians, paid tribute to 234 y...

The Fallen Comrade table is set at the front of the West Point Club ballroom on June 16 for the Army Birthday ceremony at West Point. The table pays tribute to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the Army and our country....

Soldiers of the West Point Band play music before the start of the Army Birthday ceremony at the West Point Club on June 16. The West Point community marked the Army's 234th birthday with a ceremony that included a symbolic placement of the campaign...

The West Point community gathers in the West Point Club ballroom on June 16 for the Army's 234th Birthday ceremony. The ceremony included Soldiers, Family members and civilians as West Point celebrated the birthday. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dean Welch...

Second Lt. John Laird and Lt. Gen. Buster Hagenbeck, along with Command Sgt. Maj. Martin Wells and Sgt. Stephen Hicks, the youngest and senior officers and non-commissioned officers assigned to West Point, from left to right, use swords to cut the Ar...