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L-R: Professor Ryszard Kucha (MAJ Kowalik’s dissertation promoter); MAJ Ray Wojcik, Army Affairs Officer, Office of Defense Cooperation; Major Kowalik; COL Henry Nowak, Defense and Army Attaché, US Embassy
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Major Tomasz Kowalik of the Polish Army recently defended his doctoral dissertation from Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. entitled “The Educational Process of the United States Military Academy at West Point, 1802-2002”
Kowalik graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 1999 under the US Security Assistance Military Academy Program.
His research at the West Point Archives was paid for by a grant from the Polish-American Kosciusko Foundation.
He is currently serving as Specialist to Dr. Janusz Zemke, the Secretary of State and First Deputy Minister of National Defense.
Major Kowalik was on the West Point Dean’s List eight consecutive semesters and graduated with a class ranking of 63 out of 952 graduates.
While at West Point, he was captain of the marathon team, President of the international Cadets Club and majored in International Relations.
During the 1990s, approximately one dozen Polish students attended the three major US military academies – the Military Academy (Army) at West Point, New York, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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