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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...