Posted on 10/12/2017 8:01:01 AM PDT by mandaladon
Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Heffington issued an open letter to West Point graduates earlier this week blasting the superintendent, commandant, and dean of the military academy for contributing to a “culture of permissiveness.”
The letter was subsequently posted on the website of American Military News.
Heffington told The Daily Caller he wrote the letter to the USMA Class of 1963 when several of its graduates contacted him asking how Spenser Rapone, a cadet espousing radically anti-American views, was allowed to graduate.
“The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline,” the letter charges. “The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution.”
Heffington’s eye-opening letter describes systemic problems at West Point that he says have led to a decline in honor, standards and meritocracy. The end result of said neglect, according to the lieutenant colonel, is a current “embrace of mediocrity.”
“Every fall, the Superintendent addresses the staff and faculty and lies,” he asserts. “He repeatedly states that ‘We are going to have winning sports teams without compromising our standards,’ and everyone in Robinson Auditorium knows he is lying because we routinely admit athletes with ACT scores in the mid-teens across the board.”
Heffington states that he has personally taught cadets who are “borderline illiterate.” In another section, Heffington laments what he refers to as West Point’s “nonexistent” academic standards, and takes aim at the dean:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
from 1941 to 1946 army was 45-8- 3 in football, including 27-0-1 the last three years. in 43-45 they were 29-1 in basketball.
Fortunately, I graduated before the women came
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LCWB ?? or earlier than that?
The Spring 1977 USNA Academic Boards kept female plebes with far worse GPAs than those of booted males. The word was out. Wave hello to double standards.
While hard to see, a dozen or so black female USMA cadets raise their fists in a black power salute.
Those were great teams, but it’s a different era. Back then, USMA was probably one of the top three schools in the nation for anyone wanting to get a degree. The average NFL salary was around 3,000 dollars compared to around 5 million today. Pro sports were not the huge industry they are today. If you are a 5 star stud athlete in Football, and want a career in the NFL, are you going to USMA where on top of dealing with the academic and military rigors of plebe year, you go through Beast before even stepping on the field? Are you to go through that or go to a football factory where they are throwing perks and coeds at you?
Yeah, if a war is on, more go to the academies. Hopefully.
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