[SteveMcKing]

"these future naval officers will not have an understanding of the essence of what they are chosen to protect, that is, American civilization"

Correct.

America, child of Westernism, is greater than its constitution. That document merely states that Man's rights come from God, not from men. Belief in oath, or in this very first document, is a means to pacify those hard and intelligent men who might actually recognize the greater ideals that created our constitution in the first place.

That's no accident. It was indeed the wrath of Cultural Marxism (force-fed by doctors, lawyers, media, academia, and government officials) that has emasculated our military officers into controlled, rewards-driven operators.

[olde north church]

Man's rights do not come from God, his thirst for freedom, however, was. The rights of man are secured by whichever weapon is closest to hand and one's willingness to use it. Case in point, China. With it's billion + population it should be overflowing with freedom.

Or are we to presume that only those who believe in God have rights?

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It had occurred to me several years ago that Ross Perot and Jimmy Carter were Naval Academy grads and I wondered how they could have the Anti-American attitudes they did with that background. Perhaps now I know.