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West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« on: March 13, 2024, 10:44:56 am »
West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'

 By Randy DeSoto
  March 13, 2024 at 4:13am
In a move sure to worry many that the venerable two-century-old West Point is going woke, Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland announced Monday a change in the institution’s mission statement.

The phrase “duty, honor, country” is out — exchanged for the more amorphous “Army values.”

The United States Military Academy’s previous mission statement was: “To educate, train and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/west-point-changes-mission-statement-removing-values-duty-honor-country/
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Re: West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2024, 10:49:15 am »
Quote from: rangerrebew on March 13, 2024, 10:44:56 am
The phrase “duty, honor, country” is out — exchanged for the more amorphous “Army values.”

exchanged for the more amorphous (WOKE) “Army values.
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Re: West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2024, 11:27:03 am »
This guy will be their new role model.
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Re: West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2024, 12:00:20 pm »
"Army Values" - what a vapid nonsensical euphemism.

Follow up question, "What are the Army Values?"

They are overeacting to their recruitment shortfalls.

Recruitment is not falling because the "Army" isn't cool with today's snowflakes (who would make terrible soldiers because they don't understand what an 'order' is; they mistake it for a suggestion).

Recruitment is falling because people don't want to die in useless foreign wars of choice, for d1ckhe@d politicians, only to be forgotten and abandoned after service discharge.

The nation is less devoted to enlisted personnel as the enlisted personnel are more devoted to our nation.
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Re: West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2024, 09:32:10 am »
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"Duty, Honor, Country" is out.

It is to be replaced by "Army Values." I never liked that term when it 1st came out back when I was still inside b/c it subordinated the Constitution to what the Army valued. Of course, that necessarily means that the Army would be subordinated to what those in charge of it meant - mediated through a deadening bureaucracy.

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Re: West Point Changes Mission Statement, Removing Values 'Duty, Honor, Country'
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2024, 09:49:55 am »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on March 13, 2024, 12:00:20 pm
Recruitment is falling because people don't want to die in useless foreign wars of choice, for d1ckhe@d politicians

You are far too kind to politicians!
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