It’s not the code that is the problem, it is the people.
No code, no consitution, no law, can withstand assult by the dishonest or weak.
Yes, the code is dead. Lost to Woke generals and somnolent Cavuto Republicans.
“We will not lie, “
Feminist PC made lying as a rule SOP fifty years ago-
Is the Air Force Academy Honor Code Dead?
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Was it ever alive?
The Air Force Honor Code was dead, when the then Supe ranted at the entire Corps for nearly an hour about “racism” after a Cadet at USAFA Prep reported “racist graffiti” on his Barracks door. When it was discovered to be a hoax, the cowardly Superintendent didn’t call the Corps back into formation to apologize and acknowledge the hoax, he simply ignored it.
The real difference between honor and operations has been created by the cold war. It was after WW 2 that we no longer fought “wars” to protect our country. We fought wars to protect someone’s interest. And not often our own.
Prior to 9/11 we had no immediate threat on the horizon. North Korea didn’t attack Alaska, Vietnam didn’t hit Hawaii. And the list of conflicts we were involved in like Lebanon, Granada, Kosovo, Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia were not a threat to our soil. However the threat of our technology acted like the big brother we had to hold others at bay.
So our military became just as corrupt as their leaders, no longer military, but political. And the emphasis of our military became push button for the politicians and that appearance was filtered over into the populous (voters) to appear to be a successful formula to peace. And when our wars became money and not protection, we stopped being a country and magically turned into a financial police force while trying to represent ourselves as the good cowboys riding in to save poor Nell from the villain but not riding off into the sunset, staying to use our funds and resources to rebuild their little ranch to control them.
Unfortunately today’s politicians fail to understand what being resourceful actually means like we were in 1789 when we had a real country to protect and were willing to do it. And that’s why we fail now both politically, morally, and theologically.
The only real promise is that someone has to be the villain, the wrong to spotlight the right. And when you run out of foreign villains, they have to be created domestic. And someone has to be the foil to the good politicians that have spawned from the past and found the business profitable whether in money or power, pick your poison.
So they can’t blame the voters or the media (like Trump did), they need them. So they ostracized a part of their organization that they really don’t need any more...the military. The politicians created them and changed them to what they need so they now need them to be evil. Until you need them again not to be. But will they be there? Besides changing the mission, look what they are doing to the police. That might be a hint. The inmates are running the asylum.
wy69
It’s been dead, not only in the service academies but throughout the Federal Leviathan since the day the fraud from Kenya was elected by the Army of the Ignorant, otherwise known as the Democrat Party!
I worked at the Air Force Academy from 2006 - 2012. This article is mostly right on target. But as a Naval Academy graduate, I will confess that the same problems exist there as well, and more recently at West Point. It’s bad enough that I believe all three schools are beyond redemption and should be shut down. A focus on diversity and division 1 athletics killed the culture of developing honorable warriors. Now we are simply paying a lot of taxpayer dollars to fund institutions whose graduates are often out performed in every respect by their ROTC counterparts.
It was good while it lasted.
Just remember that they are called hookers because of General Hooker of the US Army in the civil war who brought whore houses around with his army. While ethics may be worse now, they were never perfect. They ebb and flow. We are just at a particularly bad time in most of our government influenced institutions.
Even worse is that this ultra-progressive turncoat once worked in the Reagan White House, and also for Ross Perot.
From Wikipedia:
In April 2013, Weinstein met with top-level officials in the Pentagon to discuss proselytizing in the U.S. military and the role of the chaplaincy. He called it a "national security threat ... spiritual rape ... sedition and treason." In an interview with the Washington Post after that meeting, Weinstein blamed military and political leadership for the abundance of proselytizing going on the military today. Weinstein again claimed the culture in the military is misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic and that the chain of command is compliant to this culture.