Back to the normal lying character assasination. You are just a lying rug.
West Point sends out hundreds of recruiters. In addition to them, Senior Officers join the recruiting effort. USMA alumni organizations assist in recruiting. The West Point Parent association joins in.
The post-Viet Nam years that Carson would be recruited in were TOUGH YEARS to be recruiting candidates. The Army would be particularly interested in accessing a promising, top of his ROTC program kid like Carson.
Many of them base their description of a cadet’s ‘free ride’ on West Point documentation which says it is a Scholarship. How else would a recruiter describe in a concise way the reality of pay, room and board, health benefits and adherence to the UCMJ?
I am pretty sure that the USMA recruiters that talked to me talked about full scholarships and there is no doubt in my mind that they also talked to him about them. If he had wanted to attend West Point it probably would have fallen into place given that situation.
You are a very pathetic and small person to attack Carson on this.
Recruiters are not authorized to offer scholarships. They can only get people they think may be good prospects to apply to West Point. The process is still the same for acceptance. No offer was made to Carson because he never initiated the process by applying. I think he would have likely gotten in. He got into Yale on Affirmative Action.