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2024-03-14 -Great Cultural Revolution

West Point announces change to mission statement, school's official ‘Duty Honor Country' motto has been eliminated

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [47 views ] Top

#1 I understand that most USA armed forces officers are NOT academies graduate?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-14 01:53|| 2024-03-14 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Correct.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-14 01:54|| 2024-03-14 01:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The academies, reserve officer training corps (ROTC) from colleges, officer candidate school (OCS) from the ranks, and direct commissions which are usually few and done in the cases of doctors, lawyers, and chaplains [who by UCMJ do not have command authority, aka lawful order].

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-14 08:13|| 2024-03-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 I am a USNA grad. I think this initiative is intended to bring service academy academics in line with places like Harvard. Too many cadets were submitting their own work.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-03-14 09:06|| 2024-03-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Ow!

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-14 09:08|| 2024-03-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steven Gilland recommended the following motto: “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 service to the Army and Nation.”
“[O]ver the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose. We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army — the Army in which our cadets will serve,” Gilland said.
“Our updated mission statement focuses on the mission essential tasks of Build, Educate, Train, and Inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character, with the explicit purpose of being committed to the Army Values and Ready for a lifetime of service,” he added.
“The Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing truth faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers. In the past century, West Point’s mission has changed nine times. Many graduates will recall the mission statement they learned as new cadets did not include the motto, as Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998.”

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-03-14 09:30|| 2024-03-14 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Why socially inept Generation Z is having less sex than ever: They're over-therapised, underpaid, obsessed with social media... and the dates are terrible, writes a desparing OLIVIA DEAN

Posted by Skidmark 2024-03-14 10:08|| 2024-03-14 10:08|| Front Page Top

/\ Perhaps it is as it is intended. Reproduction of the species no longer a desired outcome ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-14 10:14|| 2024-03-14 10:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes. Kardashians, LeBrons, "influencers," etc. not needed in the bigger plan.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-14 10:17|| 2024-03-14 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Over drugged, over preened, and not over themselves.

Bach in muh day, my peers told me Army Values are about going around the world, waging war on poor nations, and killing babies.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-14 10:35|| 2024-03-14 10:35|| Front Page Top

#11 The cancer is bone deep now!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-14 14:31|| 2024-03-14 14:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Churchill: "Don't talk to me about Naval Tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash"

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