Spring Break - The West Point Way

[Roliremu]

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Also very cool: USMA sends a select group to participate in Operation Crossroads Africa every summer and has done so for the past 10 years or more (I think).</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dean.usma.edu/sosh/Activities/AIAD/IRCP/crossroads.htm[/url]”>http://www.dean.usma.edu/sosh/Activities/AIAD/IRCP/crossroads.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I know about the program because one of my children who attends a civilian college will be participating this summer!

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<p>I did Crossroads as a cadet in 1989 in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (other classmates were in Kenya, The Gambia and Liberia); I think USMA has been sending cadets (using non-appropriated funds, as I last recall) for closer to three decades. It was a powerful experience.</p>

<p>However, what Crossroads and the various spring break programs really speak to is that USMA affords its cadets valuable and unusual opportunities–and not just to wealthy students who can afford the travel and expenses.</p>