No more any of this...................
Posted on 02/10/2025 9:05:22 AM PST by Red Badger
President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military’s service academies, the outside advisory panels that help oversee academic programs and student life, saying that the government’s training grounds for military officers had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology.
“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.” The president did not immediately announce the appointment of new members to the boards.
Trump campaigned on a promise to purge the U.S. military of officers he deemed “woke” and has used the start of his second term to try and rid the Pentagon of diversity initiatives by executive order.
The purge has begun to extend to the nation’s service academies, where Republican lawmakers have long complained that so-called “woke” literature is seeping into the curriculum. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the U.S. Defense Department had begun restricting access to some books in its school systems. The service academies themselves had already begun disbanding student clubs focused on diversity in response to Trump’s executive orders, with West Point getting rid of a dozen such organizations last week, including the Asian-Pacific Forum Club and the National Society of Black Engineers Club.
The boards of visitors are typically split between presidential appointees and members appointed by Congress, usually lawmakers themselves. The Biden administration also removed top former Trump officials from the service academy boards in 2021.
“We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards,” Trump wrote in his post on Monday morning. “We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!”
So...no more Cadets with clenched Black Power salutes, no more openly communist cadets, and no more marching in high heels?
Now we’re talking
No more any of this...................
Ha. Things are so bad that I don’t even know if that was a joke or officially sponsored activity by some country’s “military”.
I know a kid who has been in pilot training for almost two years. Top of his class #1. Sitting around. Going home for holidays. Weekends
In the ‘80s- ‘90’s one year. You didn’t make it you were out w ashes back. Washed out. No fat girls. Girls. Yes. Good pilots. No fat asses crowding the crud table
Enough. I’m paying 25% of my yearly salary in taxes for this crap.
It was a Monty Python skit from 40+ years ago!............Prescient!................
Good!
Memo to: Governor Glenn Youngkin
Here’s an idea, follow President Trump’s lead and do the same at Virginia Military Institute and maybe some other state institutions.
Remember the Monty Python skit reflects something back then going on in UK politics\culture circa 1969 or so. I wonder what prompted that skit?
Keep the ball rolling mr president
My classmate from USNA is the Sup there since mid-25. Gonna be interesting to see the conversations on the class email/boards over the next few days.
But I still want Mooooore! I ain’t even close to having enough winning yet :)
This is good.
And the ground around Carthage needs to be salted so that Communism can never get a foothold again.
Trump campaigned on a promise to purge the US military of officers he deemed
“woke” and is ridding the Pentagon of “diversity” initiatives by executive order.
“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.”
The president did not immediately announce the appointment of new members to the boards.
I really enjoy the firings.
Biden purged all Trump appointees out of similar positions. Funny how Government funded Poltico did not even Biden move “news worthy”.
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