Local Raymore West Point Cadet receives Congressional nomination
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Cadet Santon received a Congressional nomination from the Honorable Emmanuel Cleaver II from Missouri's 5th district.
Raymore (Ward Park Place) resident Cadet Steven Santon, son of Eric & Susan Santon, brother of Stephanie Santon, Raymore, MO completed Cadet Basic Training at the U.S. Military Academy. Cadet Santon received a Congressional nomination from the Honorable Emmanuel Cleaver II from Missouri’s 5th district.
Santon entered West Point June 28 and has successfully completed six weeks of CBT. Also referred to as “Beast Barracks,” CBT is one of the most challenging events a cadet will encounter over the course of their four years at the academy.
A view of the central post and cadet area of West Point from the east.
The initial military training program provides cadets with basic skills to instill discipline, pride, cohesion, confidence and a high sense of duty to prepare them for entry into the Corps of Cadets. Areas of summer instruction included first aid, mountaineering, hand grenades, rifle marksmanship and nuclear, biological, and chemical training. Academic placement testing and sports tryouts were also included.
Santon began classes on Aug. 16. The West Point curriculum offers 45 majors. With a balance of physical sciences and engineering, humanities and social science, mandatory military science and sports participation all leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.
Santon graduated from Lee’s Summit Community Christian School in 2010. He plans to graduate from West Point in 2014 and be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
About West Point: Ranked (2011) the “Top Public Liberal Arts College,” three years consecutively, by “US News & World Report” and “fourth best college in the country” by Forbes (2010), the U.S. Military Academy is a four-year co-educational federally funded undergraduate liberal arts college located 50 miles north of New York City. The world’s pre eminent leader development institution, it was founded in 1802 as America’s first college of engineering. Its mission remains constant-to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army. For more information, go to www.westpoint.edu.
