By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
Category - West Point
West Point removing the words Duty Honor Country from mission statement
By John T. Reed, USMA ’68 Seriously? The words “Duty Honor Country” were on the cover of Time once. Why? it was the...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 2)
By pyrene, USMA Grad Part 1 of why did West Point change its mission asked about the specific choices of words. This Part 2...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 1)
By pyrene, USMA grad The Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a letter out to all...
West Point Recruiting Pitch Is Big On Career But Doesn’t Mention The Army
True, we are a more “selfish” society, so appeals to values like selfless service may not resonate with as many as in former...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism
By Col Mackubin Owens, USMC ret Taught at the US Naval War College for 35 years In May of 1962, General Douglas MacArthur...
Senator Probes West Point’s Decision To Drop ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Mission Statement
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to United States Military Academy superintendent, Lt...
Duty, Honor, Nothing
By Citizen Soldier My father remembers a trip with my grandfather to the U.S. Military Academy in the early 1960s to watch a...
Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret “Duty, Honor, Country…mere words to some” Duty – A moral or legal...
Congressman questions West Point dropping ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
(New York Post) The chairman of the House Republican “anti-woke caucus” fired off a letter Monday to US Military Academy...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: Political Correctness At West Point Leaves Our Military Distracted From Its True Mission
By Brian Schaeffer, former Naval aviator If you’re a veteran like me, you will find it increasingly more difficult to watch...
USMA Grads talk about West Point mission change
Jeanne Ives, USMA ’87 interviews MacArthur Society President Col (ret) Bill Prince, USMA ’70 on her show, The...
What does Gen. MacArthur have to say about those who would scrap ‘Duty, Honor, Country’?
By Capt. James Poplar, USN ret By now I suspect many of you have heard that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s call to the Corps of...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement...
West Point Leadership Turns Its Back on ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
by Francis P. Sempa | American Spectator The headline in the Washington Times reads: “West Point deletes ‘duty, honor...
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the...
West Point Removes ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from Its Mission Statement
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News West Point Superintendent Army Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland on Monday announced a new mission...
West Point deletes ‘duty, honor, country’ from mission statement
By Bill Gertz and Mike Glenn | Washington Times The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has removed the words “Duty...
West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
We’re just here for the comments, 2.5K so far. Fox News: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has made the decision...
West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement
By John Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
The Power of Social Media and a Connected Alumni Network
By LTC Bill Fletcher, USAF ret, USMA ’74 F-4 Fighter Pilot In modern America, if not the world, the impact of social...
West Point Changes Its Mission
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972 On March 7, 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at...
West Point Official Mission Statement eliminating Duty, Honor, Country
From the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates: Col. (Ret.) Bill Prince, President of the MacArthur Society of West...
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
Open letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards at West Point
This powerful letter was written in October 2017 by retired US Army LTC Robert M. Heffington (USMA 1997). Heffington was an...
Does West Point still reflect “Duty, Honor, Country?”
Col. Bill Prince, US Army ret, USMA ’70, and President of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates was on the...
What’s Wrong at West Point?
Today, in 2024, the United States Military Academy is in jeopardy, as well as the other academies. Its recent graduates are...
Expand Fair Admissions to the Military Academies
By J.A. Cauthen, retired Naval officer, USNA ’02 In June 2023, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) prevailed in...
Public Meeting of the West Point Board of Visitors
Are you a West Point graduate or supporter? Attend the public meeting of the USMA Board of Visitors in Washington, DC on...
SCOTUS West Point Ruling Analysis
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit SCOTUS’ ruling yesterday was, given the state...
Supreme Court Lets West Point Keep Using Race in Admissions
Once again, West Point is allowed to be racists The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined a request to block the U.S...
West Point defends race-based admissions as Supreme Court weighs emergency petition
West Point defended using race in its admissions process in response to a student group’s request that the Supreme...
Student Group Files Emergency Petition With Supreme Court Over West Point Race-Based Admissions
By Kate Anderson | The Daily Caller News Foundation Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed an emergency petition with...
US Supreme Court is asked to stop West Point from considering race in admissions
A group opposed to affirmative action on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point...
SoCiOloGy at West Point
West Point recently held a Majors Fair for 2027 cadets. Among the photos: Real adult war-fighting stuff going on with...
US Military Archbishop Leads Pro-Life Cadets in March for Life
Archbishop Timothy Broglio for the Military Services led a group of pro-life cadets and midshipmen in the March for Life...
The Gift of Faith
By Andrew P. O’Meara, Jr., West Point ’59 I confess to being a slow learner. It took me several years of fighting Communism...
US Military Academies Focus on Oaths and Loyalty to Constitution as Political Divisions Intensify
For 75 minutes, Maj. Joe Amoroso quizzed his students in SS202, American Politics, about civilian leadership of the...
West Point grads CRT ‘screed’ against USMA influenced by former WP History teacher
Yesterday’s Capitol Hill hearing on progressive ideologies in the military originally had two witnesses, Matt Lohmeier...
Congressman Waltz presses former West Point History instructor to define Equity
(Press Release) On Thursday, U.S. Congressman Mike Waltz (FL-6) questioned Brigadier General Ty Seidule (Ret.), former head...
The Dangers of DEI Indoctrination Happening at the US Service Academies
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Considering Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, and her...
US Military Academy at West Point can continue to consider race in admissions, judge rules
West Point can continue to be racists. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point can continue to consider race for now when...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...
West Point should end affirmative action in admissions, group tells US judge
The group behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies urged a federal...
Black women’s group defends race-based admissions at military academies
An advocacy organization for Black women in the military has voiced support for service academies’ affirmative action...
Senators introduce bill to ban racial discrimination in college admissions
The service academies are put on alert: (Press Release) Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN-03) have...
Congress: Stop the Cultural Transformation of our Military!
By Scott McQuarrie III, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit Here is an American Thinker article by a...
Biden administration defends West Point’s race-conscious admissions policy
The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a federal judge to reject a legal challenge to the U.S. Military Academy at West...