By Diana Stancy | Fox News
The Secretary of the Army has ordered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to restore the school’s crest on the Bibles at the West Point Cadet Chapel, reversing a Biden-era decision to not include the crest when replacing the Bibles.
“Since the founding of West Point and before, generations of cadets, officers, and Soldiers have drawn strength and inspiration from God’s word,” Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital.
“The decision to remove the Academy’s historic crest from the Bibles in the Cadet Chapel is yet another example of the previous administration pushing far-left politics into our military institutions.:
“I am directing West Point to reverse this decision immediately and restore this important symbol of Duty, Honor, Country.”
Driscoll’s statement comes after Fox News Digital first reported that a conservative judicial and government watchdog group had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Defense over documents regarding why the crest was absent from the new Bibles.
A spokesperson for West Point declined to provide comment to Fox News Digital on Friday.
Judicial Watch first submitted a FOIA request in December 2024 seeking records related to the Bibles, after the MacArthur Society, a group for West Point graduates concerned about potential politicization at the military academy, notified them of the removal of the crest from the Bibles.
When asked for comment about the new Bibles, a spokesperson for West Point told Fox News Digital that the chapel’s Bibles now feature the name of the military academy.
“The bibles purchased for the West Point Cadet Chapel are emblazoned with ‘The United States Military Academy, West Point, New York,'” the spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Judicial Watch filed the original FOIA request to learn more about the decision, due to concerns that the military academy is seeking to eliminate ties with what the group labels “traditional values.”
But after receiving no response for the documents, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of Defense for the documents Tuesday.
“Judicial Watch’s heavy lifting gets results,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital. “Goes to show again how our lawsuits exposing corruption can fix corruption. The US Army and West Point can’t go wrong in honoring God.”
The Pentagon told Fox News Digital that it does not comment on pending litigation.
Combining religious content or symbols with military material has faced backlash historically.
In 2012, all four branches of the military pulled approval for a military series of Holman Christian Standard Bibles that had been sold in military exchanges amid concerns that the series indicated that the Bible served as the official religious text of the military services, according to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.
West Point is one of several U.S. military academies that train students to become military officers.
Today @WestPoint_USMA signed a contract for 1,800 new bibles, this time with the academy crest, for the Cadet Chapel.
This restores an important symbol to a sacred place, on a hallowed installation.https://t.co/n50vklGUSZ pic.twitter.com/74zL7JRdiY
— Secretary of the Army (@SecArmy) July 28, 2025
What People Are Saying
Comments from the article:
“Class 2005 still have my Bible from those days with West Point Crest. It was smaller in size thus much easier to carry in the field with you.”
“I treasure mine. I keep it displayed in my home. 1989.”
“The truly pertinent question is why did the Biden administration remove the crest. It certainly wasn’t to save ink or reduce cost. That crest was there for decades. USMA Grad 1975.”
“I graduated from West Point in 1998. Beyond the Bible’s, what they have done to the institution is truly heartbreaking. Their mission has changed from developing leaders of character that will fight and win our future wars into progressive-thinking automatons that are not focused on the critical aspects of military leadership. I hope our current leadership can course correct this.”
“Unreal how Biden and the Democrats tried to eliminate our history our traditions and anything that made this country what is is. I am a USMA grad and was not aware of this. Trump and Hegseth need to get these Academies back on track. They have one purpose-prepare military officers. They are not publicly funded liberal arts community colleges designed for social experiments!”
“West Point has been struggling over the past four years. I saw it firsthand when I worked with six students on their capstone project. It’s time for West Point to return to its core mission of developing strong leaders.”
“There are no atheists in Fox holes. That is as true today as the day it was first uttered. Faith is a cornerstone of personal strength. That strength keeps America 🇺🇸 Free.”
“Or in the cockpits of distressed airplanes or on the bridge of a distressed ship at sea.”
“I witnessed that personally one night during a 122mm rocket attack. The biggest black guy in our unit was asking for God’s help out loud and one mentioned the next morning or ever.”
‘My father served in the US Army Airforce. He flew over 30 missions over “The Hump” in the China/Burma/India theater for the Air Transport Command. I still have the miniature Bible General Dwight Eisenhower gave to his troops with his message contained therein. It is a disgrace what Biden and his Administration did to our country by trying to take God out of the public square. Kudos to the Secretary of the Army for recognizing the importance of God in the lives of our cadets!”
“And we have Dad’s Bible issued to him and imprinted by the US Navy in 1942. Along with a small folded silk US Flag that Bible was in his pocket at Leyte Gulf, the Philippines, Okinawa, and the occupation of Japan. We have that flag as well.”
“This is a good decision that gets us back to the traditional values of this country.”
“Our country was founded on God. The reason many early Americans came here. And that we be free to worship God as we choose. God himself has given us a choice to make. So Glad the bibles are in West Point. I have a small bible my Grandfather was given as he fought in World War One. So the history of giving bibles to our soldiers goes way way back. May we turn back to God.”
“The WOKE Leftist were taking a page out of the Marxist ideology. That is remove all traces that counter the Marxist ideology. This removal was an attempt to remove historic aspects about the US Military Academy. Aspects that run counter the the Leftist principals. The removal of these old relics of our past, makes it easier for the leftist to mold the Military Academy to their ideal. Frankly, I was surprised that the Eagle was not replaced with the Hammer and Cycle.”
“Any foot soldier in any battlefield anywhere thought about God.”
“God bless the US Army! It defies understanding how corrupt and anti-Christian this last administraton was. So shameful. Thank God sanity is being restored.”
“Good. God blessed America and God bless our soldiers.”
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Removal of West Point Crest from Bibles in Academy Chapel
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