As you receive your commissions as Second Lieutenants, each of you continues down the same hallowed path walked by the titans and legends of U.S. Military loreâ¦
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As you receive your commissions as second lieutenants, each of you continues down the same hallowed path, walked by titans and legends of U.S. military law, giants like Ulysses S. Grant, John "Black Jack" Pershing, Dwight "David" Eisenhower, the one and only Douglas McArthur, old blood and guts George Patton, and Norman Schwarzkopf, all great. So many more. They and countless other patriots before you have walked out of these halls and straight into history. And today you officially join those immortal heroes in a proud ranks of the long gray line. You know that term. So beautiful. The long gray line.
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