Winey
WEST POINT – US Military Academy Cadet Mitchell Winey, a member of the Class of 2018, was one of the nine drowning victims at Fort Hood, Texas when an Army training vehicle was swept away in flood waters. The announcement was made by West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, Jr.
Winey, 21, a member of B Company, First Regiment, was participating in Cadet Troop Leadership training.
“Throughout his time here at the US Military Academy, Cadet Winey was enormously proud to be a cadet,” said Caslen. “Mitchell was an exemplary cadet in academics, as an engineering management major, during company athletics, and as a member of the ski patrol. He was clearly a rising leader in his class and a friend to everyone who knew him.”
Caslen said Winey “internalized the ideals and values of West Point and exemplified them in all that he set out to do. Duty, Honor, Country were his touchstones.”
Winey, who attended Chesterton High School in Chesterton, Indiana, “was one of the humblest, most kindhearted people you could ever hope to meet,” a former teacher of his, Tracey Scott Jones, said in a Facebook post on Sunday.
