The Shield and Sword Newsletter - Online • February 2017

Senior Symposium

What You Know vs. Who You Know” was the topic of the discussion led by Lt Gen Lee K. Levy, top left, at the teleconferenced January session of the Senior Symposium. Levy, a 1985 LSU business graduate, is Commander, Air Force Sustainment Center, Air Force Materiel Command, headquartered at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. Seen at top right are CAPT Anthony Chatham, foreground, Professor of Naval Science at Southern University, and Lt Col William Magee, Professor of Aerospace Studies at LSU. Bottom, cadets with LSU Commandant and Professor of Military Science Lt Col Lawrence House. Photos at top right and bottom by Ray Dry

Veterans Student Center

Construction of the LSU Military & Veterans Student Center will begin this spring. The new facility is made possible by a generous donation from William A. Brookshire, who earned a doctoral degree in chemical engineering from LSU in 1961. The center will transform how the University supports its student veterans, active military, reservists, guardsmen, and their dependents. The 4,600-square-foot building will include a computer lab, meeting rooms, and offices to provide increased services for military students. For more information about LSU student veterans, visit www.students.lsu.edu/veterans

Mehrtens Selected for SAW

U.S. Air Force Major Eric J. Mehrtens was one of twenty-six joint and international majors selected to attend the U.S. Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW) for Academic Year 2018. The school produces officers qualified to fill high-impact service and joint planning billets through a curriculum featuring rigorous case studies, multiple planning exercises, extensive staff rides, and a consideration of future war. Graduates earn a master’s degree in operational studies and have strong records of selection for promotion and command based on a well-developed capability to reason critically, solve complex problems, and apply operational art. Mehrtens earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from LSU in 2004.

Remembering ‘The Great War’

“ . . . then one can only know what utter hell this war is.” Excerpted from October 11, 1918 letter from Lt. Hopkins Payne Breazeale, 358th Infantry, 90th Division.

LSU Libraries Special Collections marks the 100th anniversary of U.S. involvement in “The Great War” with the exhibition, “Through the Valley of Death: A Special Collections Perspective on the First World War,” running from February 20-June 2, 2017, in Hill Memorial Library. For information, visit http://exhibitions.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/?page_id=798

2017 Hall of Honor

Nominations for the 2017 Hall of Honor are due June 1, 2017. For additional information or to nominate an LSU alum to be considered for this honor, visit olewarskule.lsu.edu

Cadets Celestial

LTC Walter P. Anderson, Dec. 30, 2016, Charlottesville, Va.

Mark Your Calendar

Spring 2017

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