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West Point Boosts females
N J Herald ^ | 6/23/14 | AP

Posted on 06/25/2014 6:35:45 AM PDT by ABN 505

- The U.S. Military Academy expects to welcome a record-high number of women when the incoming class reports next week.

West Point announced Monday that of the 1,200 cadet candidates expected to arrive July 2 for Reception Day, 263 will be women, or 22 percent. Females had made up 16 percent of all West Point cadets this spring.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: femalecadetsclass
Is this going to make a stronger military? How many qualified males missed getting a slot?
1 posted on 06/25/2014 6:35:46 AM PDT by ABN 505
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To: ABN 505

That’s right. Because meeting PC goals is what our military and West Point are all about. If we can’t fight wars without the appropriate female represenation in the officer corps, then we should not be fighting them.


2 posted on 06/25/2014 6:38:15 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: ABN 505

They’re all hoping to get their MRS degrees.

;-)


3 posted on 06/25/2014 6:38:49 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ABN 505

I’m waiting for the LGBT cadet promotion. /S


4 posted on 06/25/2014 6:43:14 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That’ll be the next quota, just watch.


5 posted on 06/25/2014 6:45:33 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ABN 505

The purpose of affirmative action is to place people into positions for which they are completely unqualified.


6 posted on 06/25/2014 6:45:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Lieutenant Klinger” just doesn’t have the same ring to it....


7 posted on 06/25/2014 6:45:57 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: ABN 505
"We will not lie, cheat nor steal, nor tolerate those among us who do."

The day they let in open homos, the Honor Code was tossed.

8 posted on 06/25/2014 6:48:56 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ABN 505

apparently, about 22% of the class

I just wonder what illusions these young women entering West point have about a military career and its effect on their life choices?

and I say that as a retired female officer


9 posted on 06/25/2014 7:05:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I’m waiting for the LGBT cadet promotion. /S

Especially the "T", because the "transgenders" are the edgiest of the Left's sexuality-victim-heroes.

We can look forward soon to seeing gushing media treatment of an obvious man in a female WP Cadet uniform.


10 posted on 06/25/2014 7:47:29 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: ABN 505

Is this going to make a stronger military?

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Where have you been? That goal is so last century. This is a kinder, gentler military we’re going for now.


11 posted on 06/25/2014 8:12:38 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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Absolutely incredible. When did U. S. taxpayers vote to pay for the military education of folks who couldn’t possibly serve in combat? Maybe I missed something—did the Equal Rights Amendment actually pass? If it took no vote to allow them into West Point (and Annapolis and USAFA, etc.), maybe they can be removed without a vote. (And that applies equally to LGBT and any other group that weakens an already weak warrior ethic.)


12 posted on 06/25/2014 8:24:15 AM PDT by Mach9
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To: ABN 505

If West Point REALLY wants to show the world how enlightened it is, they really must demonstrate how many transgendered recruits, cross-dressers, pedophiles, and advocates of sex with barnyard fowl they’re taking in.


13 posted on 06/25/2014 9:42:53 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Why is this even an issue when it is more important where LeBron is going to play next season?


14 posted on 06/25/2014 11:16:07 AM PDT by golf lover (goingf)
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