Complex sentence: Eikenberry was born in 1951 and graduated from Goldsboro High School in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1969 and then attended West Point, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in 1973.
Split into simpler sentences: Eikenberry was born in 1951 and graduated from Goldsboro High School in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1969. He then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in 1973.