Looking at the photo, they’re all black females.
Wonder how their pre-academy academic records compare to the typical white male cadet’s. Bet the bar was low enough to trip over for them.
Black. Female. Double-win for the academy’s diversity quota.
Black. Female. Double-win for the academy’s diversity quota.
No doubt you can add a third “diversity” check mark for many of those young ladies.
Because of the scarcity of women at West Point, combined with Title 9 requirements, most women there were accepted due to athletic prowess, more than academic accomplishments. Not a hard an fast rule, but generally true.
I remember one black female cadet in particular. She was in fact there because of academics. In fact, she had received some sort of NAACP stipend to attend. Keep in mind that it is free to attend, and they actually pay you. So this stipend was absurd, but she accepted it.
Anyway, her standards were low...very low. She almost instantly went on ‘profile’, which means injured, and did not participate in many, many of the first summer’s training.
I have to interject a true story: We were all being starved, and very weak after around 6 weeks...and ready to do a 17 mile road march the next day. The senior cadets in charge of us took pity on us, and produced a watermelon - to be shared by around 20 of us plebes. We considered it to be a huge treat, and something that would give us a small boost for the next day. It was cut up into 20 pieces, and we filed by to get one. I was last in line, and this black female was right ahead of me. Now she wasn’t facing a 17 mile march the next day - she was allegedly injured and slated to ride in the back of a truck. So, when she approached the plate, with two pieces left - one normal size and one the end sliver, I thought she might take the small piece. She didn’t.
Anyway, I lost track of her for the next few years, until near graduation. The officer in charge of her (Tactical Officer) made the huge mistake of being moral, and doing the right thing. He recommended that, although this cadet had completed all the graduation requirements, she not be commissioned into the army. He just didn’t think she had any of the skills necessary to be a leader, and just wanted to give her a diploma and have her leave the army.
Did I mention she was a black female? That poor bastard probably ruined his career, an she got a commission.
I’ll tell you that every single one of them is an unqualified token, for the simple reason that anyone bright enough to qualify for West Point would know better than to do something like that. These aren’t sorority girls at a party school; in theory they are smart and disciplined students from the top of their classes.
West Point is just another taxpayer-funded training program for foreign enemies; these people in the photo aren’t “American”. It is no wonder we lost our last two wars; by all indications we’ll lose the next one (wherever it may take place) as well.