Posted on 03/13/2024 10:56:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Sunday, the Armed Forces Press reported that West Point brass had made a recent decision to “update” the academy’s Mission Statement, which until that point, read as such:
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.
With the approved revisions, West Point’s official mission now reads:
To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corp 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.
As you can see, the sacred and “hallowed” words, recognized as the official motto of the school since before even Douglas MacArthur graduated in 1903, have been jettisoned—into the Memory Hole “Duty Honor Country” goes!
John A. Lucas is a former special operations military member with more than 45 years experience as an attorney who now runs the Bravo Blue blog; and yesterday, Lucas reported that an officer to whom he spoke “emphasized that the change was the result of a regular review … to see if any changes were needed to ‘modernize’ the statement.” As someone pointed out in the comments:
Duty-Honor-Country: Well defined, succinct, timeless.
Army values: Amorphous, indefinite, depends on the whims of the social elite.
Unless the politicization of our armed forces is stopped, and soon, we’ll be singing ‘The East is Red’ as our national anthem in short order.
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Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. . .
Let me guess, the new motto is something like “Prance, Twerk, Bend Over”.
Well, the graduates haven't been earning it lately.
I don’t think President Trump would go along with that....hells bells I think the Marxists are desperate to dismiss as many things that define America and it’s institutions before they’re run off and defeated
Does that mean they have to re-write A Few Good Men?
Outrageous!
I was expecting the to be from the Bee.
More Woke Anti-White crap , you know it has everything to do with White
Too “nationalistic” and “traditional” for them anymore.
Just get rid of the army. What use are they when our border is undefended? Waste of money. Social experiment.
The next West Point motto will be “Kill the White Man.”
Yes, and don’t call me Shirley.......................😜
That’s The Marines.................
I would say to not pass judgment now, but to demand that they define ‘army values”.
Ping.
Thank you. just sad, but can we expect anything less under the current misadministration?
If it were Army, they’d just call it a “period movie” from a bygone era.
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