Bombshell: US Military Academies Run by Military

by Stephan Tawney on September 17, 2007

Hat tip Purple Avenger. Some genius actually decided to write this in an op-ed in the Columbia Spectator:

While we knew that someday he would be required to serve, we also were drawn to the top-tier education he was promised to receive. We were told that the Naval Academy was first and foremost an elite college. He would be able to learn history, economics, political science, and even engineering. He would play lacrosse on a nationally ranked team and play the bugle in the marching band. He would have seminars about leadership and selflessness. He would even go to school for free.?..

Soon that pride turned to anger and fear: after my mom dropped him off at Annapolis, she came home with an acute sense of grief. The only thing she could talk about was how to get him out. In addition to missing his presence at home, she was scared by the extent to which her son had suddenly become the property of the U.S. Navy.?…

After leaving countless messages for the lieutenant, he finally called me back, at which point he informed me that my brother would have to go through 13 exit-interviews to be dismissed, including an interview with the head of the Navy. When I asked him whether this might intimidate him out of leaving, the lieutenant reminded me that my brother had signed an oath legally binding him to the Navy. When I reminded the lieutenant that he had signed that oath after he had been yelled at all day and that his hair had just been shaven off during his first day there, he comforted me that John was not at all forced to sign the oath…

While it has been difficult for me to accept that I have a brother in the military, I must allow him to pursue whatever path he is drawn toward, and he has admitted to me that he feels called to being there. However, for anyone else out there considering a career in the academy, let it be known: the U.S. Naval Academy is not an elite college; it is first and foremost a branch of the U.S. military

Someone call the media! It’s an outrage! The U.S. Naval Academy is run by the U.S. Military, with the goal of training people to be in said military! How could this have gone on for so long?!

I’m glad this asshat was accepted into Columbia. Of course his head was shaved, he was yelled at and he’ll have to serve. It’s the U.S. Naval Academy, not Gymboree, and he took an oath to on his first day.

Next at 11: According to sources for The American Pundit, churches are run by clergy.



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