the ice age is over…
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome back I-3 Nation! Sorry for
the delay in getting out this next newsletter!
Things got a bit busy around here, but the
wait is over and we have lots to share. This is
a special extended edition to cover all that has
been missed. As you‟ll see from the special
points of interest, that although we didn't beat
Navy, I-3 won the Brigade
Football Championships dur-
ing their first season back!
Additionally, there is the list
of I-3 Firsties with branch and
Post assignments. Maybe
you‟ll be seeing us around
sooner than you think! We
don‟t just win on the fields
of friendly strife, but also in
our military tasks. The Ig-
loo, home of the Icemen,
was validated to have the
best rooms in the Corps! Under a new chain
of command this semester, the company is
still thriving!
Along with all the new stuff, your
favourite Grad Gab section is still here, as is
the Frosty Photos! Thank you to Charlie
Skaggs „75 and Heath Hawk for donating their
Invaders stein and Polar bear shirt respectively
to be displayed in the day room!
This will be my last letter as editor
and let me say it has been a pleasure! I have
really enjoyed this past year and learning all
about I-3! I will be posting to
Schofield Barracks having
branched Chemical Corps. I
am still reachable by AKO ([email protected]). I couldn‟t be happier with my
replacement! She was in I-3
as a yuk this year and will
have 2 more years in I-3!
Look for her welcome and
comments in the letters
from the editor section!
Thank you for all your con-
tinued support of I-3! Hope you enjoy this
letter! All the best! ~Bre
I-3 is back and better than ever! This
past year, I-3 won the brigade foot-
ball championship and brought the
trophy back to the 5th floor day-
room! It is currently on display for all
who visit! I-3 faced I-1 and pulled off
a very close victory in the rain! The
company came out to make signs and
cheer on the team!
Additionally! Underbear football is alive and well! A game occurred on
the only real big snowfall of the year, which was in late October! We are doing our best to bring back former
traditions!
I-3 Class of 1983 Mug
The Ice Age is Over…. by Bre Boswell ‘12
I-3 takes Brigades for Football!!
I N D I A C O M P A N Y
3 R D R E G I M E N T , U S C C I 3
ceman
nquirer M A R C H 2 0 1 2 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3
S P E C I A L
P O I N T S O F
I N T E R E S T :
I-3 wins Brigade
Championships
in Football!
Underbear foot-
ball still lives on!
Old Grad Gab..
What you had to
say!
The first set of I-
3 firsties in 13
years is entering
into the Army
soon!
Letter from the
Editor/ I-3
Historian
Meet the new TAC officer-CPT Jared Nichols
P A G E 2 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 3
As the class of 2012
graduates on 26 May, The TAC
team of MAJ Jerrod Hawk and SFC
Stephanie McKay will also be leav-
ing West Point to return to the
Army as well. We wish them well
as they continue their careers.
They have done a wonderful job in
I-3‟s return to the Corps!
With this end comes a new beginning and a new TAC
Officer. CPT Jared Nichols is a
native of Staten Island, NY and an
Army ROTC graduate of West
Virginia University. CPT Nichols is
coming to I-3 directly from the
Eisenhower Leader Development
Program at Teachers College, Co-
lumbia University; where he re-
cently completed his Masters in
Organizational Psychology. In addi-
tion to serving as the TAC for I-3,
CPT Nichols will also serve as the
TAC for 3rd Battalion, 3rd Regi-
ment and as the OIC for the West
Point Pipes & Drums. His last mili-
tary assignment before advanced
schooling was training newly com-
missioned Lieutenants in the Ar-
mor Basic Officer Leader Course
at Fort Knox, NY. CPT Nichols is
married to Mrs. Holly Thorne, an
Operations Research Analyst with
the Future Warfare Center at U.S.
Army Space & Missile Defense
Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL.
They are proud owners of a dachs-
hund named Tanker.
CPT Nichols‟ previous assignments
include:
Platoon Leader A/3-8 CAV,
1CD
Executive Officer F FSC/215th
BSB, 1CD
Asst Ops Officer TF 3-8 CAV,
1CD
Commander C/1-12 CAV,
1CD
Asst Ops Officer 3HBCT,
1CD
Asst Ops Officer/Instructor 2-
16 CAV (Armor Basic Officer
Leader Course).
In his spare time, CPT Nichols
enjoys adventure racing, cycling,
running, military history, historic
preservation, and is an avid West
Virginia sports fan. Be sure to
welcome him to I-3 and we are
looking forward to his command of
I-3 next year!
CPT Nichols on a tank
“We really
want to hear
from Old
Grads about
their times in
I-3 and in the
Army!”
Bre Boswell
P A G E 3
CDT Dylan Hanna, I-
3’s CO for next semes-
ter.
I’3s XO for Next Semester!
Meet the new 1st SGT!!
I-3’s CO for Next Semester! I-3‟s CO will lead
this company to even greater
achievements than were ac-
complished this year. CDT
LT Dylan Hanna, has been
chosen to serve as the 1st
semester CO. Dylan is on
the power lifting team and
also is pursuing going to
medical school. Dylan
writes:
“Our company did a
great job last semester with start-
ing off on a good note. I look
forward to maintaining the en-
thusiasm that our company
had in its first year back.
The command team is ex-
cited to continue our com-
pany’s progress as we es-
tablish ourselves within the
Corps.”
Dylan will be a
great asset to the command
team and in making I-3 the
top company in the Bri-
gade! We look forward to
the future of I-3 under his
leadership and guidance of
the under three classes!
and am a member of the
Rugby team. I am privileged
to be the First Sergeant for
I3 next semester and I look
forward to ensuring the
fourth class remains disci-
plined throughout the first
semester. A Firstie First
Sergeant is a departure
from the norm, but I’m ex-
No, you are not back in
the “Old Corps”. Next
semester Firsties will be
1st Sergeants, and I-3
has selected one of the
best! CDT LT Christian
Grado. He writes:
“My name is
Christian Grado and I
hail from Sugar Land, TX
cited to work with my CO
and XO to put our company
at the top of the Corps.” Not one to slack
on standards, I-3 is sure to
lead the REG under his
great leadership! The class
of 2016 better be ready!
ning of a great year, espe-
cially for all you members
of the class of 2013. Get
ready because the Icemen
are going to set the stan-
dard next year. Find a way
to stay frosty this summer.
See you in the fall!”
Lisa was an Ice-
man this past year and is a
hard worker. The Compay
will be lucky to have such a
great person as XO next
semester!!
I-3‟s success will
be carried on next year
with XO CDT LT Lisa Kim!
If you can‟t tell from her
picture, she is very excited
to be XO! Here‟s what she
had to say!
“Hi! In case you
didn’t know, I’m Lisa. I’m
excited to be your Executive
Officer for next semester.
It’s going to be the begin-
CDT LT
Christian
Grado,
13 First
SGT for
next se-
mester!
I 3
CDT LT Lisa Kim–
Next semesters XO!
P A G E 4
Read the article on
page 6!
Polar Bear Reflections-Rick Albrecht ‘80
This comes from the e-
mail archive of old grad e-
mails! Enjoy!:
“I might be the first "Iceman" in
I-3 long before the nick name was adopted. When I came back from Cow summer
(1972) in Alaska, the Iceman nickname started since I attended the Northern War-fare Training Center. Then my roommate,
the infamous Morris Piece, had the brilliant idea that we could discourage inspecting officers if we left our windows open all the time. That
worked pretty well until Morris was hospitalized with pneumonia. Having grown up in the Cats-
kills, I was fine and after that the "Iceman" stuck
forever and is my label in the 1974 Howitzer. The nickname haunted me later on. In Ranger school,
I lost my first and third Ranger bud-dies to pneumonia. My fourth
Ranger Buddy and classmate, Jack Shafer made it. When I got to the 1/509th ABCT in Vicenza, Italy, I was
the OIC of the first two battalion winter warfare training cycles (1977-78 and 1978-79). Now I live on the
western slope of the Wasatch Moun-tains and ski Alta and Snowbird most
weekends. The goatnapping is a whole other story. I have attached a couple
pictures. The man in the suit is my dad, Joseph Walker, who kept Billie
XVIII at and near our house several
months. The cadet to his right is the infamous Morris Pierce who was the
ring leader of many devious plots,
including two successful goatnap-pings. Back then, I-3 really knew the meaning the nautical term "goat
rope". Go ARMY BEAT Navy, Al Walker USMA '74 COL (ret), SF (News write-up is on page 6!)
Mess Hall was stripped of its din-ner plates and "Beat Navy" spelled
out on the Plain as cadets ate breakfast using only saucer plates -- again, no solid evidence could
attribute the events to my class-mates. During our Yearling year,
the Commandant came to visit us
one Sunday afternoon. We were recreating R-Day and were wear-ing black socks, white t-shirts, and gray PT shorts; some were smok-
ing cigars (not part of R-Day) and we were rather loud. When we heard knocking on the door, I
remember several of us yelling some sort of inappropriate re-sponse at the outsider -- we soon
realized it was the Commandant who asked us to keep it down because he had some work to do.
Our little recreation was in one of the rooms in the short L-shaped hallway leading to the Comman-
dant's stairwell. In the summer of
1977, our Yearling year, one of the bathrooms was designated for the women of 1981 who joined us.
Our class had women, but it was not until 1981 that women walked the hallowed halls of I-3. With
only 6 women in the class of I'3's
1981 class, it hardly seemed fair to have an entire bathroom for only
six people. At times I understand that males may have inadvertently stumbled into the ladies bathroom
by mistake. After two years, we got a new TAC -- Major Peyton;
due to some inter-class liaisons,
on occasion I-3 became its own version of an earlier version of the TV show "Peyton
“As a member
of the Class of 1980, I am one of the few members of I-3 that remained in I-3 for
all four years; unless I'm mistaken, I think ours was
one of the only classes to
do so. In our class, we had a Rick Ledger who was a phe-nominal artist. Rumor has
it that members of 1980 would mysteriously acquire colored chalk which was then transformed into
detailed drawings on the court-yard behind MacArthur Barracks. Other strange occurances cred-
ited to our class (rightly or wrongly) were the appearance of a barber chair with a polar bear and
haircut accessories in the Com-mandant's office. The fact that one of the members of 1980 had
repossessed cars in a former life
and had access to certian lock/key materials is purely coincidental. Unfortunately, the leaking hydrau-
lic fluid from the chair upset a few individuals -- namely the Comman-dant and our TAC at the time
Major Brace. On occasion the
I 3
Polar Bear Football!
(photo courtesy of
class ‘88)
Iceman and goatnapping!- Al Walker ‘74
I-3 spirit is alive and well! The Frosty Photo Gallery
I-3 Polar Bears COL Bryndol Sones from PaNE de-
partment and Dan Carlo, ’87 stopped by for a visit to INews article of the I-3 planned, and succesful goatnapping
from page 5!
Letter from the editor-by CDT Alix Efaw ‘14 Hi everyone! My name
is CDT Alix Efaw and will be
taking over as the I-3 company historian as CDT Boswell gradu-
ates and become 2nd LT Boswell!
I was originally in company H-3, but when given the opportunity to
move to and help restart I-3, I
couldn’t pass it up. I am the oldest of 5 kids. With two West Point
graduate parents (both the class of
’89) I’ve grown up all over the world, but I say I’m from Denver,
CO because that’s where my
family lives now. I enjoy every-
thing from the theater and music
to kayaking and camping. This
summer, as a rising Cow, I will be a squad leader for first detail
Beast (into which my little sister
is coming as a new Cadet)… I’m VERY excited. West Point has
also giving me the opportunity to
travel to France on an AIAD. I couldn’t ask for a better summer.
I feel very honored to be taking
Or mail to the following address:
CDT Alix Efaw
PO BOX 1272 West Point, NY 10997
Hope to hear from you soon!
Sincerely, CDT Alix Efaw, I-3 Company
Historian
Class of 2014
For the next issue we are seek-
ing stories and pictures regard-
ing I-3 old grad Ring Week-
ends! This is one of the biggest
moments besides Graduation,
and the Icemen would love to
hear!
As always, all stories and
submissions can be pub-
lished anonymously. All
stories, information or pic-
tures are always welcome! I
look forward to seeing the
response for this issue! Until
over as the company’s Histo-rian and to be able to be the
bridge between I-3’s current
cadets and I-3’s Old Grads. I will continue right where
CDT Boswell has left off,
providing I-3 graduates with information on what’s going
on in the company and pro-
viding the current Icemen with stories from the past I-3.
We still want to hear from
you: accomplishments, memories, funny stories,
advice; anything you want to
tell us, we want to hear. If you would like to contrib-
ute anything to the newsletter,
or have any questions or comments, please e-mail me
at: Alexan-
[email protected] I can be reached by phone at:
(845) 608 6664
CDT LT Alix Efaw
P.O. Box 1272
West Point, NY 10997
(845)-608-6664
The Icemen Inquirer solicits you to share more of your
stories about your cadet, military, and civilian experi-ences.
The Icemen Inquirer connects current I-3 Cadets with the Old Graduates of I-3, keeping readers informed with a few good laughs. This newsletter will also docu-
ment I-3‟s history in the making, along with passing on past history and traditions.
For the next Issue, we ask graduates to send in their stories and accounts of I-3 and RING WEEKEND! Ring pictures are always welcome! So show us your bling :) Pictures are al-
ways welcome and stories can be published anonymously. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the news-letter, please get in touch with I-3 through
any of the contacts to the left.
Company Historian:
Company I-3 TAC Team:
TAC Officer
CPT Jared W. Nichols
845.938.2906
TAC NCO:
To be determined!