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Two FSM Citizens Appointed To U.S. Military Service Academies

By Pacific Magazine
Sunday: June 03, 2007

Two citizens of the Federated States of Micronesia have received appointments to attend two U.S. military service academies.

Tricia Johnson, a 2006 graduate of the Pohnpei Adventist Academy, has received an appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy. She is the daughter of Dr. Okai Johnson, anesthesiologist at Chuuk State Hospital, and Mrs. Emihner Johnson, a financial specialist for FSM Department of Health Services. Her parents are from Mokil Municipality, Pohnpei state.

Eugene Amor, a 2007 graduate of Xavier High School in Chuuk, has been appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy. Amor is the son Agnes Amor of U Municipality, who works at Pohnpei Islands Central School.

The U.S. Embassy in Pohnpei, which endorsed the nominations of the FSM National Government, said 27 nations nominated 89 applicants for consideration for appointments to the U.S. Naval Academy, but only 11 of these were selected.  Forty nations nominated 145 applicants for consideration for appointments to the U.S. Air Force Academy this year, but only 18 of these were selected for the class of 2011.

Johnson and Amor are the third and fourth FSM citizens appointed to attend a U.S. military service academy. They will study civil engineering and aerospace engineering respetively. The first was Okean Ehmes, who attended the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. The second was Byron Silbanuz, currently a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy.