Youngest Sapper Grad Headed to West Point

Published on June 24, 2022

Congratulations to Cadet Candidate William Farkas! PFC Farkas, 17, with the 119th Engineer Company, 1092nd Engineer Battalion, of the WV National Guard, has become the youngest recipient of the distinguished Sapper Tab after graduating with honors from the U.S. Army’s Sapper Leader Course on June 10. Farkas’s time as an enlisted member of the Guard will be short as he has accepted an appointment to West Point - The U.S. Military Academy as a member of the Class of 2026. Read more.

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