Fifty-five Coast Guard Academy cadets caught cheating
Using communications methods available to them, 55 Coast Guard cadets cheated on their homework assignments. In one instance, a cadet who had done poorly on an assignment, and subsequently received correct answers from the instructor, shared those correct answers with others. Unfortunately for these cadets, an alert instructor looked at how long it took these individuals to complete their assignments. These cadets took a fraction of the time needed to normally complete the assignment.
From WSHU Public Radio:
In the largest cheating scandal in the Coast Guard Academy’s history, 20% of the class of 2025 were caught sharing homework answers with one another and were also aided by an older student from the prior year.
“And in another instance a cadet who had taken the homework assignments and done poorly on them and gone and talked to the instructor and gotten the right answer, distributed those answers,” said Commander Aaron Casavant, the Assistant Commandant of Cadets. “There were networks of cheating.”
It comes at a time when the Coast Guard service is already under scrutiny for a report that former Coast Guard leadership withheld from Congress and the publicsexual abuse and misconduct at the Academy over several years.
Whether the cadets understand how their actions affect the current image of the Coast Guard, Casavant said he’d like to think so, but he’s not sure. Twenty-five cadets have asked to appeal their sanctions Casavant said, knowing it could affect the start of their careers.
Casavant said they found out about the cheating incidents when the class instructors reviewed the computer program used to administer the homework assignments. They found two issues.
“What we found was that the homework assignments were being completed in the order of seconds and minutes, rather than the amount of time that the instructors expected a homework of that complication and difficulty to take,” he said.
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Future smart officers right there..
“What we found was that the homework assignments were being completed in the order of seconds and minutes, rather than the amount of time that the instructors expected a homework of that complication and difficulty to take,” he said.
Hmmm, sounds like potential candidates for Ivy Leage college presidents!!!
…and if not that, DEI….I mean, DIE directors.
Or future leaders at All-Points Logistics.
Or, perhaps the president of Berkley? Lars could show him or her around, point out what needs to be banned.
How are we supposed to know?
You improvise, overcome, adapt.
Gunny Clint
I guess when these kids saw others, including one (s)elected as CinC, lie, cheat, and steal their way up the ladder, they figured that was the way to go. Pity…I expected more from the Puddle Pirates for some reason.
Sorry, not sorry…expel them all. Remember when Honor and Integrity meant something? Welcome to the new normal.
Well, if the boss can do it, so can we.
Merrick Garland is so proud. And proclaims they are not guilty of anything.
What are the odds that they watched Animal House a zillion times but found out that it was easier to ask the instructer for the answers. When I was working for Brink’s, we had to go to a pier on the hudson river and transport heavy boxes of BAR Law exams inside.
I love how they followed the low performer over the cliff of dishonor.
Maybe they will give them a second chance like West point did?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/nyregion/west-point-cheating-scandal.html
That was an exercise in futility.
Or maybe they heard about The hundreds of cadets that cheated at the Air Force academy and only got probation.
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2022/04/14/air-force-academy-expels-22-cadets-for-2020-cheating-scandal/
Maybe they heard about the hundreds of cadets that cheated at Navy academy and didn’t get kicked out?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/us/us-naval-academy-cheating.html
It’s weird all of this started in 2021? What be up with that? Wasn’t that about the same time that we quit making mission on recruiting?
Excellent points.
Come on man! It’s not like they would be operating anything really dangerous like a nuclear reactor.
https://news.usni.org/2014/08/20/navy-expels-34-sailors-nuclear-cheating-scandal
““Punishment was suspended for two of the 36 sailors based on their minimal involvement and their strong potential for rehabilitation,” according to the report. The remaining 34 had their security clearances stripped and were booted from the service.”
Only sorry they got caught.
Really? If one these cadets had been a member of the E4 Mafia (highly unlikely), they would have known that computer assignments log start & end times. Rookie mistakes…
When one fakes the funk, it must be believable– that’s the whole idea.
Pencil whipping (gun decking) is a fine art. There are many practitioners, but few masters.
I hear in the Army the Spec 4 patch is known as The Sham Shield, and the greatest practitioners are known as The Shamurai.
That is all true. However, I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of the “E4 Mafia”, nor would I be able to comment if I had such information.
This kind of thinking explains why many modern officers seem so full of shit all the time…when you will lie and cheat on a test to advance your education you not only deprive yourself of a useful education (one wonders if this is why some recent accidents have taken place) but you deprive yourself of your integrity and your word as your bond…
When I was a boy my dad told me when you shake a man’s hand and offer your word never fail to make good on that word…because if your word ain’t worth shit, then neither are you. It’s proven an excellent adage throughout my life time and a lesson that’s proven true far too often over the years.
The same dudes proudly declaring “It’s now what you know, it’s who you blow!” for some reason, too. Can always be trusted to do/learn the bare minimum when watched like a hawk.
not
Disrate them and force them to serve the remainder of their contract before the mast.
Shitcan all 55. Class of 2025 can graduate 20% light.
This is the way.
Apparently they took the E4 Mafia motto “It’s only cheating if you get caught” too seriously, I saw plenty thrown out of NCO Schools for less than that, and what’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander! Oh, *OOPS!*, is that waycist to the right professionally offended snowflakes that got caught and want to flash their ACME® Victim Cards™?
With about 21 years of formal civilian education and military education, I never cheated on any schoolwork or test. Of course, back then I thought it wasn’t worth it. But then everyone wasn’t obsessed with getting A’s. Cheaters just cheat themselves, IMHO.
My high school and college transcripts are proof that I was not a cheater.
Ditto for high school (C+). Did better at the university (3.2 gpa). In law school it was not possible to cheat; same for the bar exam.
Hooah! (Here too.)
Fire the lot or expect to have more problems. What’s so hard about putting the work in? My integrity is worth a whole lot more than saving a bit of time on an assignment. But I guess that’s old school naïveté.
When I think of the USCG, all that comes to mind is that PO beating on the sub hatch…and some stupid motherfucker opened it.
Morons.
I think they must have dumb down the classes using DEI. After all everybody deserves to pass the class. And besides it’s only future officers. Not like they have a real job to do. Can’t we all just get along🥰.
I’m an officer in the USCG Auxiliary.
We’re the volunteer, CIVILIAN addition to the Coast Guard that they couldn’t do without. We are, for the most part, old men and women with a lot of snow on our roofs, and wide areas below our belt lines, are prior service veterans from as far back as Vietnam…but we are able to get things done that the regular Coast Guard can’t always handle.
We actually made a big difference on 9/11, and during Hurricane Katrina [got the Presidential Unit Citation with Hurricane Devise].
And I swear to God, we have more integrity than many of the regular CG officers and enlisted personnel I have met over the last 10 years of my service.
It does not surprise me in the least that a group of punks were caught at the CG Acad. CHEATING. Not one little bit.
If things don’t improve soon, I’m resigning.
I’m currently serving with the civil air patrol 2nd Lt. and have decided to retire from that. Shoving DEI on us was just one step too far for me. I don’t need that shit. I was with the Air Force, Security Specialist (enlisted) from the early 70’s. A lot has changed since then. Not for the better. Training is one thing, DEI is not training. The Civil Air Patrol has helped to train many fighter pilots. Being involved in SAR and ground team training is very rewarding work. I worked in communications center between ICS and Aircraft, really great people. I will miss it for sure. All volunteers.
So, now even auxiliary military and quasi-military organizations are going full woke and pushing the DEI propaganda. Sad, sad, what has become of our military and everything they influence.