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Last May 12 was the 60th anniversary of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s famous farewell address to the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in which he outlined the ideals that guided his life a...

© Getty Images Eight West Point cadets have been expelled while 51 others must repeat a year of school over the academy’s biggest cheating scandal in more than 40 years. The military school is also ending its policy that allows students who violate its honor code to stay at the academy if they admit fault and accept punishment, a program known as the Willful Admission Process. Most of the cadets caught cheating on an online freshman calculus exam in May had enrolled in the program, whi...

1st female Army infantry officer says lower fitness standards for women put troops in danger Posted on In a new essay published Thursday, Capt. Kristen Griest, the first U.S. Army infantry officer, said lowering Army fitness standards could hurt the Army’s combat readiness and reduces the trust female soldiers can expect from their fellow soldiers. In her essay for West Point’s Modern War Institute, Griest, who also became the first of three women to earn the Army Ranger Tab, said creatin...

News Release #001, January 29, 2021    U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – In line with the U.S. Air Force Academy’s mission to develop leaders of character, the Academy’s Superintendent, Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, has directed a complete review of the Academy’s Honor Program, the first in several years. The purpose of the review is to provide findings and recommendations for improvement to the Honor Program, ensuring the Cadet Honor Code and Honor Program relevantly and effectively achieve...

(Courtesy of Spenser Rapone via AP) Back in the day, an Italian Communist by the name of Antonio Gramsci posited that a successful revolution could be effected without a violent civil war by first infiltrating and then ultimately co-opting the basic institutions that underpin successful societies. Once under control, these institutions can be used to modify societies to fit whatever socio-economic model the infiltrators want, without ever putting major armed forces in the field as in the Bolshe...

More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused of Cheating on Remote Exam Nearly 60 West Point cadets have admitted to cheating earlier this year on a math exam they took remotely because of the CCP virus pandemic, an official at the U.S. Military Academy confirmed. A total of 73 cadets have been accused of cheating in the May exam, while 58 cadets have admitted to cheating, spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt said on Dec. 21. “West Point honor code and character development program remains strong...

West Point cadets have cheated in one of the biggest exam scandals to hit the elite US military academy in decades, officials say. More than 70 students were accused of breaking West Points Cadet Honor Code in a math test while studying remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the Instructors became suspicious when they noticed irregularities while marking the calculus tests. Seventy-two of the cadets involved are in their first year, while another is a second-year student. Fift...

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