03/14/2024
Zero Hedge has relayed today from The College Fix the significant news West Point Ditches “Duty, Honor, Country“ From Mission Statement, by Tyler Durden, March 14, 2023.
The United States Military Academy has removed the words “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement, a move approved by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff Randy George.
The previous mission statement read:
To educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.
The new one reads:
To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of professional excellence and service to the Army and Nation.
This action is a slighting of a recent but perfectly legitimate development in West Point history:
1989 West Point grad Randy De Soto notes in The Western Journal that new cadets had to memorize the portion of General Douglas MacArthur’s 1962 speech (given at the school) which highlighted the three words…
West Point Ditches "Duty, Honor, Country" From Mission Statement https://t.co/6UaBlVgX8o
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) March 14, 2024
General MacArthur’s father was PC enough to win the Medal of Honor as a Union Army Officer in the Civil War. Not enough, apparently, to save his son from Cancellation.
Personally, I am equally concerned by the inversion of priorities between serving the Army and the Country/Nation. Are the Democrats planning military rule?
This is not lightly asked. The Brownstone Institute’s The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy, by Scott Sturman, February 9, 2024, relates:
The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a military institution to a progressive, liberal arts school has been incremental, relentless, and calculated. The goal to politicize the training and perspectives of cadets …guarantees a source of influential officers who will apply and promote these ideas throughout their military and civilian careers…
What this extraordinary piece lays out is that the Air Force Academy has, for several years, been subjected to what can only be compared to the Bolshevization of Russian educational institutions after the 1917 takeover. Merit and technical competence have been subordinated to ideology and class/racial origin. Dissidence is harshly repressed.
From 2017-2018 six permanent professors… resigned from the USAFA and all pointed to sweeping cultural changes at the institution. In an open letter they detail the actions of the Dean of Academics, who during their tenure was…adverse to academic excellence.
Worse,
In an article in the Air Force Times, newly appointed AFA Director of Admissions, Colonel Candice Pipes, called for radical changes to address perceived disparities in the Air Force. Her commentary calls for restorative justice that emphasizes identity, victimhood, and correcting inequities by the application of quotas.
This refers to We need radical change to fix the racial disparity in our Air Force, by Col. Candice l. Pipes, Air Force Times, February 27,2021.
Colonel Pipes is of course black.
Sturman goes on
White male cadets are subjected to racial harassment by members of the faculty, and for the most part, the insults and degradation pass without notice … Cadets live under a system where Diversity and Inclusion Representatives are embedded in all cadet squadrons and act as political officers. This cadre reports outside the chain of command and exerts an element of control and intimidation reminiscent of the thought police found in totalitarian governments.
Not surprisingly,
At the outset of the Biden Administration all previous appointments were voided and replaced by those sympathetic to the prioritization of DEI within the DOD.
The question is, if the Democratic Nomenklatura were preparing for military rule, how would they behave differently?
Peter Brimelow is right: Trump’s Indictment — Like I Said, This Is A Communist Coup.
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