Lt. Col. Sergiu Cirimpei at SAMS Graduation May 2017

Lt. Col. Sergiu Cirimpei, a special forces officer with the Moldovan military receives his masters' hood upon graduating from the 2017 School for Advanced Military Studies program, on May 25. Cirimpei graduated from the Command and General Staff School in 2016 and immediately began the SAMS program. Presenting his hood is Maj. Gen. John Kem, deputy commandant for the Command and General Staff College and Provost for Army University, along with Col. James Market, 15th director for the School for Advanced Military Studies. Cirimpei will return home after two years of schooling at Fort Leavenworth.