USMA grad to receive Valor at Arms Award

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(West Point file photo)

WEST POINT – The West Point Association of Graduates announced that LTC Robert Beale, Class of 2002, has been selected to receive the 2022 Alexander R. Nininger Award for Valor at Arms, which will be presented on October 20 at West Point. 

Beale, who has been deployed more than a dozen times during his career, is currently serving at U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command at Fort Bragg, NC. 

He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS, and completed a Master of Arts in International Relations from Webster University.

In addition to the Silver Star, Beale has been awarded four Bronze Stars, five Meritorious Service Medals, three Air Medals, the Combat Action Badge, the Master Aviator Badge, the Parachutist Badge, and the Army Staff Badge.

The West Point Association of Graduates Nininger Award is presented annually to a graduate who is an exemplar of heroic action in battle. 

The Alexander R. Nininger Award is funded by an endowment from E. Doug Kenna, Class of 1945 and his wife, Jean and is named in honor of Lieutenant Alexander R. “Sandy” Nininger Jr., Class of 1941, the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in World War II. 

On January 12, 1942, Nininger voluntarily attached himself to another company in his Philippine Scouts regiment that was under heavy attack by Japanese forces near Abucay, Bataan. Wounded several times, he continued to advance in a counterattack and destroy enemy positions until he was killed.




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