From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the West Point Superintendent to remove the Academy motto: Duty, Honor, Country, from its mission statement. AFNN reached out to the MacArthur Society and here is their response to not only this issue, but a long list of other concerns impacting the World’s premiere military institution of higher learning.
By James Atticus Bowden, USMA Class of 1972
The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates is about restoring, reforming, and improving the United States Military Academy to serve the needs of the U.S. Army and the Nation for the rest of this century.
So, what needs to be restored, reformed, and improved at USMA?
- The cheating scandal and special treatment for football players,
- cadets OD’ing on drugs,
- a broken Honor System,
- the insubordinate “Anti-Racist West Point” screed,
- graduating a proud Communist,
- race-based admissions, and
- teaching DEI and CRT
indicate something really is rotten at West Point.
Removing “Duty, Honor, Country” from the USMA Mission statement is the latest evidence of institutional rot.
Consequently, the MacArthur Society proposes the following:
Restore.
- Restore the Honor System to Corps of Cadets with an absolute standard of integrity.
- Restore academic excellence in every degree-granting program.
- Restore the highest standards of meritocracy, excellence, and integrity.
Reform.
- End race-based admissions of candidates and selection of faculty and administration.
- End teaching, training, and favorable discussion of the Cultural Marxism of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity and Critical Race Theory at USMA.
- Reform the composition of the faculty and their terms of service to increase the role of active duty and retired Army officers in classroom instruction.
- Reform the core curriculum to serve the U.S. Army for the next century.
- Reform Corps-Squad athletics recruitment, privileges, and exemptions to more fully inculcate athletes as members of the Corps of Cadets.
Improve.
- Improve USMA to insure that graduates add a quantitative and qualitative difference – from every other officer accession program – to the Army.
- Improve USMA to motivate more graduates to serve successful, full careers as Army officers.
- Improve the process for the periodic review and accountability for USMA.
The MacArthur Society is working with USNA and USAFA graduates in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. If a new administration can be elected in Nov 24, then we propose a Presidential Executive Order establish a blue ribbon panel for all three Service Academies.
We call this “Joint Borman Commission 2.0” because, like the Borman Commission following the USMA’s 1976 Cheating Scandal, it must address why West Point is no longer “a unique institution where young men and women, in a spartan military environment, learn the academic and military skills necessary to be a professional soldier.”
A Presidential Commission is needed to conduct an apolitical, serious investigation to see how deep the black mold of Cultural Marxism rots the institution.
Furthermore, the reforms must include legislation which can’t be swept away with a change in Presidential administrations.
West Point needs to be kept further away from politics.
If the MacArthur Society can’t get a Borman 2.0 after this election, we will focus on shedding as much light as possible on what is really being taught and trained at West Point.
We will advocate the “harder right instead of the easier wrong.”
While the MacArthur Society was created by old grads, anyone concerned about West Point and the U.S. Army is welcomed to join our mailing list and contribute our common cause.
If you want to help restore, reform, and improve West Point, sign up on the MacArthur Society email list at https://macarthursociety.org/
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