Posted on 05/25/2016 7:46:18 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
As 2nd Lt. Alix Schoelcher Idrache stood at attention during the commencement ceremony at West Point, N.Y., on Saturday, he was overcome with emotion. Tears rolled down both cheeks, but his gloved left hand held firm on his white, gold and black “cover,” the dress headgear that Army cadets wear.
The photograph of Idrache, by Army Staff Sgt. Vito T. Bryant, was published Tuesday on the Facebook page of West Point’s U.S. Military Academy, and it almost immediately went viral. Part of that is Idrache’s background: He worked his way through one of the nation’s most prestigious military schools after immigrating to the United States from Haiti, earning his citizenship and serving for two years as an enlisted soldier with the Maryland Army National Guard, according to Army records.
“I woke up this morning and found my face all over Facebook and with it myriad of amazing comments about my accomplishments,” Idrache wrote Tuesday on Facebook. “I am humbled and shocked at the same time. Thank you for giving me a shot at the American Dream and may God bless America, the greatest country on earth.”
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The article says he credited the 3 first women who graduated from Ranger School. I stopped reading at that point.
Well, you should’ve kept reading. First, he credited:
“Men and women who have preserved the very essence of the human condition stood in that position and took the same oath. Men who preserved the Union [in] a dark period of this country’s history. Men who scaled the face of adversity and liberated Europe from fascism.”
Sadly..., I concur, though who knows whether the author interjected that on their own....
Get women out of combat now or later. They are not fit! Get em out ta here!!
Political correctness. It is the cancer infecting the military services.
It is being drilled into them at every level, and if they don’t bow before it and sacrifice their common sense by making a reference like the one he did to the fraudulent process that produced female “Rangers”, then they all know they won’t have a career.
Simple as that. You suck up and say all the things they want to hear come out of your mouth, and you have a shot. You don’t, you get drummed out.
“...after immigrating to the United States from Haiti...”
I worked with an Army officer who was from Haiti. She was tough and didn’t take crap from anyone.
I also don’t think women belong in combat. However, as a member of my state’s militia, I will serve in whatever role I’m asked to serve, if and when I’m asked.
Future Speaker of the House
Excellent
Nice pic. Seems like a Good Egg.
God bless him.
I’ll take folks like this any day of the year.
Don’t miss this one!
Not fit? All women aren’t 5’ 2”. I had women on my crew and they out worked the men. They maxed the PT test (the old, hard one) and all qualified expert on the range with the M-16.
“Men and women who have preserved the very essence of the human condition stood in that position and took the same oath...”
That such a man stands in the Long Gray Line!
No mimicking for the camera childish protest sign nor twit’n a can’t wait message while in formation. Just registering in his brain housing group a never to be repeated moment.
ooORAH Trooper!
You have a bunch of people who can’t seem to see the forest for the trees. It’s an inspirational story of a man who overcame obstacles to graduate in the top 10% of his class and who is looking forward to serving his country and they can’t see past their own biases to see that.
Indeed.
Thank you! I’m pleased you saw the need to express that observation.
There are times for that particular bias and this wasn't one of them.
Some people speak because they have something to say and some people speak because they have to say something.
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