Posted on 10/03/2013 2:05:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Some classes at West Point are being combined or canceled and military faculty members are being forced to fill in for civilian instructors furloughed because of the government shutdown, academy officials said Thursday.
The academy furloughed 1,422 civilian employees this week, including 132 faculty members. …
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What do we do about the AP, eh?
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perhaps they could have classes at camp david, as I have read that this critical piece of infrastructure has been kept open.
What’s Next????, the Stars & Stripes Paper
Assault Basket weaving 101+222=323,
Tactical Accounting 204+117= 321,
Integrated ballistic diversity 233+406=639
Something like this?
So 90% are non facualty?
Guess the Plebes get to clean the bathrooms and sweep the area. Better than having them walk punishment tours.
Any military member who expresses other than complete contempt for the Obamadork should be court martialed immediately. Really, these types of folks are dangerous...and those like them once worked for a certain German leader.
(Nope, not suggesting they disobey orders. They can still salute the dork, but in their minds, the salute consists of an extended finger.)
And ANY general that actually agrees with that piece of excrement should be immediately kicked out.
Absolutely, positively not kidding.
May I change “...who expresses other than complete contempt ...” to “who privately expresses other than compete contempt”.
The military remains our most honorable government institution. Hopefully, the time will not come when they are thinking seriously about those military lectures they got in training concerning obeying “unlawful” orders.
They already clean their quarters and common areas. At West Point it is still much like an Army post...so this means Commissary staff...MWR staff...mess and dining facilities....and other svcs done by civilians and govt contractors...will be on furlough
I would not be surprised to see some of the more honorable military teachers show up to teach anyway
Now, why on earth would the Commander in Chief want to make himself the laughingstock of West Pointers? The more Obama tries to punish the nation, the funnier it gets.
The CR the house and senate passed did allow for the payment of any civilians that were supporting in any way any active duty military. That would seem to include civilian teachers, since their replacements are active military and therefore the civilian teachers were clearly “supporting” the active duty.
Obama has purposely chosen to ignore this CR and kick people out that he could be paying. Just like he locked up things that did not need to be locked up.
The local talk radio I listen to here in DC had a person on from the Naval Academy who stated that beginning next week they are going to have to start dropping some classes because there are no military instructors to cover the subjects that the Dept of Navy civilians teach.
H’mm will that give the middies time to practice navel maneuvers?
We’ll hear the same formtheAir Force Academy & the Coast Guard Academy soon I bet.
Wait, so you’re saying that instead of practicing drill and ceremony and dysfunctional B.S. that the Washingtonian-type brass favors, our Cadets and Midshipmen at our military academies will now be able to actually practice things that favor technical skills and enhance their effectiveness combat instead of appearance?!
Thankfully,Cadet CSM (Ernest Lee) Sincere has announced that the Academy's "Weekend Maneuvers" training exercise will occur at 2100 hrs this Saturday,as scheduled.
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