[DIRTYSECRET]

I say shut em' down. Too expensive. They can get their 4 year engineering degrees at The Citadel, the VMI's and the A&M's. That image of that Ragone fella pulling up his shirt with the 'communism will win' etched on his gut was a real turnoff. Then there's the AF Academy general telling the whites to get out over racist graffiti that a black cadet posted. When democrats are in charge this is what you get. Don't forget the national guardsmen being ordered to march in high heels at a parade. Hegseth is bringing the military back to it's senses but we have to give the left less to play with. Look at what they've done to K-12 schools. They'll do the same again to the academies.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It would be a punch in the gut to the alumni as well as strong military advocates. I can live with it if the other military schools keep us just as strong while the students pay their own tuition.

[Glennb51]

I think the academies offer more than STEM education. The curriculum includes military history, discipline, and espirit de corps, amongst other training not available in a public university.

There will always be idiots. I do not think we should shut down the intituions because of them.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I say shut em' down.

Full disclosure - I'm an '84 Navy grad.

The Academies maintain a lot of the institutional and cultural tradition for the various branches. There simply isn't the same degree of immersion in American military cultural heritage in programs at civilian schools. The Academies also attract a much higher percentage of high achievers than you'd otherwise get entering the military.

There is a reason that every major military power has equivalent institutions to develop a professional officer Corps. To the extent there were issues with DEI at the Academies during the Biden and Obama Administrations, the military services have to follow the orders of the President and his appointees. Those problems would (and did) exist in the rest of the military, including ROTC programs and places like VMI and the Citadel, even if you got rid of the military academies.

[PsyCon]

I encourage everyone to Read the article …it does not argue for or support closing the service academies.

[jagusafr]

Add Norwich to that list. Some of the Army’s best and most patriotic commanders (until they bump into the glass ceiling) have come from that historically black university.

Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)

[FlingWingFlyer]

Just read up on Mikie the Migrant Skank Sherrill’s Military history. I wasn’t very impressed. Annapolis should demand she pay for the education she got. Nine years in the Navy and she got out as a Lt. with four kids? She had to have spent many moons on maternity leave and behind a desk instead of working a cyclic and collective.

[Dogfaced Soldier]

As a USMA grad, this is my 2¢ worth. In 1964 at the start of Vietnam the Corps of cadets was approximately 2400 in two regiments. The Army end strength was 978,000. The Corps was then expanded to about 4400 cadets in four regiments which is roughly what it is today. The current strength of the Army is 480,000. So approximately twice the number of cadets for an Army that is half the size. I’d say that there is an opportunity to right size it and fill the remaining needs through ROTC and OCS.

[Vermont Lt]

You missed the oldest of the major mil schools. But thats OK.