When he was wearing his 'uniform', he did not say "Sir! Yes Sir!";
but rather, "Allahu Akhbar!"
Posted on 12/03/2009 5:50:22 AM PST by lacrew
The West Point Cadets were told beforehand to applaud President Obama. They should have ordered them to stay awake instead: ............ Just minutes before the president took the stage inside Eisenhower Hall, the gathered cadets were asked to respond “enthusiastically” to the speech. But it didn’t help: The soldiers’ reception was cool.
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How degrading to have your schedule interrupted, have to wait for hours for the Messiah to show up, and then have an OFFICER coach you on how to applaud.
Morale must be getting low.
Did money change hands too?
When he was wearing his 'uniform', he did not say "Sir! Yes Sir!";
but rather, "Allahu Akhbar!"
At any of the Service Academies, you sleep whenever you can.
How thoughtless of Obama to do that to the students. Gee! My dentist's secretary calls me, if for some reason he is behind on his schedule.
Well, some of the cadets were imbued with such a warm, fuzzy
feeling at how their CiNC is managing the Afghanistan war
that they slipped off into a peaceful somber. < /sarc>
My recollection is that getting caught sleeping during a lecture would indeed get you in trouble. It happened all the time, though - you’re always very tired.
I once fell asleep, standing up, during a Physics final.
Funny photo (post 2); but, those are actually enlisted men and women who play in the band. We marched in literally hundreds of parades, and the band was always there...yet I never met or spoke to any members of the band. They just seemed to magically appear at parade time. One of many strange parallel universe type experiences at West Point. The rest of the world is still happening, while you are in suspended animation. Most of these cadets probably have paid very little attention to politics while there, as a result.
Why should Obama’s behavior be different than that of when he was a senator of Illinois. He always showed up late for sessions... I guess to Obama it’s not that important. That’s just so disrespectful. I don’t care who you are. They should do as they do at my son’s work place. If they are a minute late for work after so many times they are fired.
Ugh...can we fire Obama?
Jeeze, the academy reeks of an Orwellian attitude.
What's next?
Arrests and imprisonment for those who don't applaud Dear Leader?
That's the way Kim Jung Il runs North Korea.
How sad and pathetic!
As a former military band member, this is the old “dress blues” uniform, and as lacrew notes, these are enlisted soldiers, not cadets. Further, this is a brass quintet, not even a full representation of a band (I was a horn player myself).
We played at just about any kind of significant ceremony on the posts I was at. We’d have marching drills (D & C) on a regular basis, and would spend most of the morning prior to the ceremony prepping the sheet music flip folders for the program we would play. Then the trumpet players would throw down to see who would be the bugler for the ceremony (loser had to play). Then we’d load up and head out. Pass in review was the worst, particularly at my last post (10th Mtn) because there the ceremony almost always involved the entire division, so we’d have to stand out in the middle of the parade ground forever repeating the same march to get all the battalions and brigades off the field. Only once the parade ground was cleared could we leave, and then stop playing. We’d march off to a simple snare drum tap (decorum, you understand). Now and then I’d wish we could cut loose, and march off to “Louie Louie”. I suppose we didn’t more so we wouldn’t make the generals and colonels up in the reviewing stand blow their composure laughing rather than because it would have been that much of a breach of protocol (not like there were many people left in the stands by the time we were done).
Thanks to all who have served, all who are serving and all who will serve in the future. America’s finest. BTTT!
I’m a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the 5th service academy and you were always tired when you were there. I guess it’s something that they didn’t have to stand to attention for the whole speech.
I beleive the ‘sleeping’ was a protest! I notices while watching it live. They were dissing the Pres.
And Obama thought the military makes for a good photo-op!
Can you imagine these Cadets who are true scholars having worked hard to qualify for West Point having to listen to this affirmative action Bozo who never had to make grades. A true insult to any Cadets intelligence.
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