Posted on 03/20/2022 4:23:29 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Five New York cadets — all men in their early 20s and at least one a football player — had been partying at an Airbnb rental north of Fort Lauderdale, neighbors said. All but one have been released from the hospital.
“Cocaine was really prevalent among the football team. They would wait until a long weekend to do it because it leaves your system quickly. Weed can stay for a long time. We were randomly tested at the academy.”
Drug experts say cocaine or its metabolites typically can show up on a blood or saliva test for up to 2 days, a urine test for up to 3 days and a hair test for months or even years.
It’s not immediately clear what disciplinary measures the cadets face, but illegal drug use can be grounds for immediate expulsion.
Greg T. Rinckey, an attorney who specializes in military law and a former JAG (Army Judge Advocate General) said the cadets will probably be “dis-enrolled” from the school, which is West Point-speak for “expelled.”
“It will depend on what defense counsel is going to spin,” Rinckey told The Post. “‘Fentanyl was in the brownies! They didn’t know!’ Or, ‘They thought they were smoking marijuana but fentanyl was in the joint.’ But if there are witnesses who say they saw [the cadets] buying and ingesting cocaine that’s something else altogether.”
West Point cadets are technically active-duty Army cadets and subject to being criminally charged, according to the UCMJ, or Uniform Code of Military Justice. They could also face a separate administrative action.
If kicked out, they’ll also have to pay back tuition. Schooling is normally free as long as students graduate and fulfill five years of military service.
“Uncle Sam is going to want his money back,” Rinckey said.
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Milley’s military.
Trouble ahead, oh, Lady in red,
Take my advice you’d be better off dead.
Switchman’s sleeping, train hundred and two is
On the wrong track and headed for you.
Driving that train
High on cocaine,
Casey Jones you better watch your speed.
Trouble ahead, trouble behind,
And you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Casey Jones
Grateful Dead
Such rocket surgeons we have attending the Service Academies these days.
But it doesn’t matter, the Academies aren’t capable of turning out an Omar Bradley, much less a George Patton, these days. Might as well turn them into typical party schools.
After finally recovering at Ft. Hood, he was sent back to West Point to serve as a class advisor and ultimately died from a drug overdose.
My friend never discussed it with me but I suspect the son was addicted to opioids due to the back injury and at a time when the prescription opioid epidemic was beginning.....
It is certainly cnsistent with the military culture being force fed into the military. We maybe have a major war in prospect and the government is busy disabling the manpower pool in the services. Why not just completely defund the military and dedicate all that money to welfare and Elite bank accounts?
I saw a friend, an ex marine, descend into paranoid delusion taking opiates to resolve issues with two failed lumbar spinal fusions. It was heartbreaking. What a good and decent man.
How horrific.
I have had a spinal cord injury for 12 years now and suffer from extreme pain. Pain medication has been prescribed but I refuse it as pain is the ‘devil I know’.
Bkmk
“....subject to being criminally charged, according to the UCMJ, or Uniform Code of Military Justice....”
I guess Milley’s military chooses when to enforce UCMJ. I wonder how many people in our Arm Forces are using drugs since the Military went Woke under Obama.
This is what happens when you turn your military over to the “gay” commie “democrats”. Big mistake. Big, big mistake.
There is a winnowing process for officers as well as enlisted men and women. It’s called the urinalysis and it works pretty good. Is it 100%? Obviously not but it’s very effective.
Was it very effective initially? I know there were mistakes and there were lab issues, but that early on.
When I was working with Junior officers I can honestly say that about 25% of them on that list I was working off of... of that 25% fully 10% of them were arrogant horses asses, they weren’t stupid but they were arrogant and that gets them absolutely nowhere in the military.
Maybe under Milley’s leadership drugs are part of the curriculum so all the boy be girl cadets are woke.
“Guess that only applied to enlisted ranks because I watched more than one ring knocker get booted for cocaine use. This was in the 80’s.”
A cousin graduated from West Point, class of 1983. At the time he was pretty up front about the problems at the Academy and the military. According to him most of the problems at that time came from the “legacies”, the sons and grandsons of Academy graduates, the John McCain types. Even back then the staff would sweat the problem children through instead of kicking them out. Imagine being the Academy staff member that got the pampered child of a General or Admiral kicked out! No one was willing to sacrifice their careers even back then.
Conversly, a buddy of mine enlisted in the navy in in 1971. If you had looked up “horny sailor” you would have seen his picture. He had one more term of enlistment to complete before he would have his 20 years in. He was denied re-enlistment for a continuing history of paternity suits brought against him. It seems like every time he drew shore duty he would impregnate anywhere from 2-4+ girls/women and spend time fighting them in court. He said his last CO looked at his record and told him he was an asset to the navy at sea but a detriment in port.
How much you want to bet if he had been an Academy graduate they would have covered things over for him?
It wasn’t in Ft.Lauderdale but in Wilton Manors. If you know what that town is known for make of that what you will.
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