Service Academy cadet wonders if woke topics could be saved from bad batch of congressmen
A cadet with the U.S. Air Force Academy presented a question to a U.S. Military Academy’s Annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference panel. The cadet, while in uniform, asked if the service academies could safeguard teaching these topics, or if they were screwed if a “bad batch of congressmen” came in. The room erupted in laughter.
From Fox News:
“Can cadets and service academies safeguard the teachings of these topics, or, if we get a particularly bad batch of congressmen, are these teachings like, screwed?” the cadet said.
Banks, the chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus and the Military Personnel Subcommittee, told Fox News Digital he disagrees “with the cadet’s remarks,” but sees “why he thought they were appropriate, given he made them at a left-wing political conference.”
“The issue is that the U.S. Military Academy is hosting partisan, DEI events in the first place,” Banks said.
In the letter, Waltz — the chairman of the House’s military readiness subcommittee — wrote that the conference “was hosted by USMA and attended by personnel from the U.S. Air Force Academy, USMA, U.S. Army officers, U.S. Air Force officers, as well as USMA faculty, civilian professors, Veterans Affairs staff, NASA staff, and professional DEI speakers.”
The congressmen noted the audio recording of the cadet’s question and wrote that, per “the recording, the crowd in attendance erupted in laughter at the cadet’s comments, and it is not apparent that any senior officer attempted to correct or counsel the cadet, nor did anyone take the opportunity to educate the group of cadets regarding civilian oversight of the military or the constitutional duty of elected officials to conduct legislative oversight.”
“As veterans, we find USMA and the U.S. Air Force Academy’s apparent acquiescence of demeaning statements aimed at Congress troubling and emblematic of the increasing politicization of our academies,” the Republicans wrote.
“The apparent failure of any senior officer to correct the highly inappropriate behavior of scorning lawful, civilian authorities amounts to turning a blind eye to conduct that could be a violation of Article 88 of the UCMJ,” they continued.
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That a single second of time is dedicated to the woke BS is troubling. I find that more of an issue than the poor decision to hold any congress critters in contempt by a cadet. Lord knows I sure hold more than a couple in contempt, but I knew better than to say it out loud, in uniform, in public, in a Military function…
Nothing but the best and brightest coming up to replace the old guard.
In 20 to 30 years, what will the next batch of best and brightest bring.
Warm-up the HMMWV replacement:
What flavor are the windows?
Depends on who licked them last.
Is there a shorter version of this bus? Maybe the West Point model.
As a graduate, they always said “best and brightest”. As I got older, it needs to be qualified…”best and brightest that applied”.
Since there have been quotas at the academies for decades yiou can’t even say that
Every batch of kongress kritters is a bad batch. And, yes, I hold them ALL in contempt.
A four-year reeducation camp to save the future from stuff?
I was assured by the outgoing CJD that there is no wokness at all in the military. We are all screwed
The statement was made by a zoomie. What would that clown know about the military? They have a corporate culture, not a military ethos.
Like it’s been said “Join the Army, the Navy is a Yacht Club, the Air Force is a Corporation and the Marine Corps is a Cult!”
From experience w/ ’em, I must agree.
I am mystified by the whole DEI thing. It should take no more than an hour to brief all concerned that the Air Force, etc. does not discriminate and will not tolerate those that do. Those that hate and those that are too dumb to at least fake tolerating those they hate can find employment elsewhere. DEI ain’t rocket science, but it sure is a profitable career field.
And most of the hour would be taken up by the participants finding their seats after their entrance and leaving the room in an orderly manner when dismissed.
The commie cadet Spenser Rapone was ahead of his time.
Army splits with West Point grad who touted communist revolt | AP News
To quote the c.c.
““I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” the 26-year-old Rapone told The Associated Press. “I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.””
Didn’t pay back a dime for his West Point education either. He should have been put against a wall.
That’s a big win in shitbird’s book.
Was Rapone one of those in attendance as a guest speaker?
Shaping up that a bloody war is in order to weed out the idiots.
Commie Rapone actually got hired on at a Texas University ( Austin) The sad thing is that Rapone was mentored/guided/ Indoctrinated by a Civilian “Woke” staff member at West Point that was supposedly hired to give Cadets insight to Middle Eastern/ Muslim/ Socialist culture.