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Home Front: Culture Wars

Another reason to like Marines

2008-08-22

Peter Robinson, National Review
(Emphasis added.)

In Hanover, New Hampshire this past June, two young men received commissions as officers in the United States Marine Corps the day before they graduated from Dartmouth College. The Marines? Why not Wall Street? Or law school? Or any of the other lives of comfort and status so readily available to graduates of the Ivy League?

"We reject the pernicious belief, commonly held at our most highly esteemed institutions, that fighting our nation's battles is someone else's job."

For more by second lieutenants Michael Knapp and Ethan Mefford, look here.

Posted by:Mike

#6 Valerian might help LOL

Posted by: lotp 2008-08-22 13:15

#5 I'm still going to have nightmares about Westies sitting down with bin Laden to discuss the semiotics of the oppressive male patriarchy.

Posted by: ed 2008-08-22 13:08

#4 'Liberal Arts' because it offers majors beyond engineering and science.

Majors like: arabic, chinese and russian.

Like: international affairs, with a senior honors project at the Combating Terrorism Center. Or projects with NSA, NRO, CENTCOMM ....

And yes, the Academy still offers 10 engineering majors including one of the top Civil Engineering programs in the country.

Cadets graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree. All of them.

Along the way they spend their summers these days doing things like practicing building clearing and IED detection/detonation.

Posted by: lotp 2008-08-22 12:59

#3 Liberal arts? Gagh! West Point was designed to produce soldiers, leaders and engineers in one package.

Posted by: ed 2008-08-22 12:53

#2 Forbes just listed West Point as the country's best public college and 6th in the country overall, including the Ivies.

US News & World Report chose West Point as "the best public liberal arts school in the country" and 14th overall among all US liberal arts colleges public or private.

I'd stack the Academy's cadets against John "Watch me play soldier" Kerry any day.

Posted by: lotp 2008-08-22 12:40

#1 "You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

I read the story. Outstanding kids, actually men. I think they'd eat John Kerry for intellectual lunch.

Posted by: tu3031 2008-08-22 11:29

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