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I know that the Ranger BN's look past the PT stud status of most of their applicants and focus on whether or not they have the self motivational capacity and ability to operate as a team. RSAP is where they are supposed to identify Soldiers that lack the qualities they're looking for, but some make it through anyway. As to how he managed to get into USMA, most officers don't branch infantry. The fact he did AND managed to fail Ranger standards for a second time signals the end of his career. The only question at this point is how soon and what will it cost him? _____________________________ 'I'm pretty fly for a white guy'. | |||
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This is a very long post, but devastating in regard to the political indoctrination, political correctness, decline of the honor code, and other terrible issues at West Point. The letter is from a retired professor at West Point.
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My God. And I have to say, I don't believe this is unique to just USMA. I believe the other four academies have also been inflicted with this problem. I know for a fact that Kings Point shares it. It truly is heartbreaking to see and hear what is becoming of these institutions. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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That letter was authored by the same LTC who submitted the earlier referenced sworn statement. Rapone had to be on someone's radar, the question is who's? _____________________________ 'I'm pretty fly for a white guy'. | |||
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that letter was posted on my USNA class facebook page. Classmate who serves as a professor at USNA replied - the rot has spread throughout. The "Honor Concept" that applied when I went through has been diluted, diminished, and undercut by the current Superintendent - who is class of '84, and should know better. His job is typically a "terminal" posting, so why not put on a pair and man up? When our officer corps no longer instills, promotes, and demands discipline, duty, honor and country - then where will it be modeled? No where, I am afraid. We're heading for a nasty crash. Therefore, please refer to: https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/5430019073 and https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/4430004704/p/1. NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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Putin's Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed. | |||
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Devastating is the correct word. This must be fixed or the consequences will be devastating indeed. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Termites. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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You'd be correct. It has spread to every aspect of our culture. The country is coming apart at the seams. Some of us see it and try to fight it, some don't give a damn, and some are pulling at the threads. We're outnumbered. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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The collateral damage has been wide, across the whole spectrum of American society. Obama's "Change" has indeed changed America. It is going to take some time to erase much of it and change course. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Obama DID vow to "fundamentally change the United States of America". He, unfortunately for the sane society, achieved his goal. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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You'd think Secretary Mattis would square the academies away PDQ. It's as easy as giving an order. Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed. Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists. Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed. | |||
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Really? that easy? Please provide suggested phrasing of such an order... I think addressing a generation of institutional / cultural rot will take years of effort, starting with identifying the root issues as well as the appropriate (and implementable) cures for the defects. I think it is easy to envision the desired end-state. How to get there is vastly more difficult. NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught" | |||
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If only it were that easy. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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I agree with this. An entire cadre of senior people with a new mindset must be created and promoted to solve the problems described here and it the 7th Fleet Thread. Institutions change culture slowly, and the institutional culture of the military has been under assault at least since the first Clinton administration. The Bush II administration may have slowed the rot, but he didn't solve it. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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I would say that it goes back further into the 1980s, or maybe late 1970s. The various Services were forced into having a Social Actions Office and then an Equal Opportunity Office, and war-fighting training time got short-changed to accommodate those new SAO-EOO requirements. It was my 20+year experience that the SAO-EOO was staffed with minorities, racial and gender based; “no white guy need apply”. Do the “bad guys” really care if our troops know how to be “sensitive to others” on a battlefield; I think not. In fact, they’ll use that info to say that Americans have grown soft and there is nothing to fear by their guys.This message has been edited. Last edited by: 2BobTanner, --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.” "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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Any updates on that turd? Has he been flushed yet? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wanted to bring this up back onto Page 1...don't want to forget about this piece of fecal matter. Any updates? "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Yet another example of a story that simply disappears from the news cycle. Hopefully dealt with but color me skeptical. "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein | |||
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I try to remember to search every few weeks or so. It seems that the only update available is that there are 2 separate investigations that are still ongoing against him. One investigation is being done by West Point, the other by the command of the 10th Mountain Division, where he is currently stationed. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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