West Point Class of 2019 Most Diverse

[Will Williams]

The once proud, manly United States Marine Corps, like NASCAR, has also fallen victim to Political Correctness:
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Marine Corps Bans Confederate Displays

The commandant of the Marine Corps has ordered that all Confederate symbology be removed from Marine installations.

Commandant General David Berger is said to have instructed that all Marine bases remove any “Confederate-related paraphernalia” worldwide.

The directive was sent out as part of a memo, in which Berger demanded several initiatives be put in place, including finding ways to place more women in combat positions and to update their recruitment policies to prohibit those with prior domestic abuse convictions...

Marine Corps Commandant David Berger

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Hmm? that directive made me wonder of David Berger is a Jew. I couldn't confirm my suspicion, but my research dug up many other general and admirals in the U.S. military who are. The list reads like a page from the Tel Aviv phone book.

Jewish Generals and Admirals in America's Military
http://seymourbrody.com/generals/home.htm

Army Navy
Lieut. Gen. Steven Blum Admiral Claude Charles Bloch
Lieut. Gen. Sidney Weinstein Admiral Ben Moreell
Maj. Gen. Julius Ochs Adler Admiral Jeremy Michael Boorda
Maj. Gen. Robert Bernstein Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Maj. Gen. Milton Foreman Vice Admiral David Architzel
Vice Admiral Arthur R. Gralla
Maj. Gen. Julius Klein Vice Admiral Douglas J. Katz
Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose Vice Admiral Bernard M. Kauderer
Maj. Gen. Sid Shachnow Vice Admiral Adolph Marix
Maj. Gen. Robert B. Solomon Vice Admiral Joseph Taussig
Brig. Gen. Jack Bohm Vice Admiral James Zimble
Brig. Gen. Abel Davis Rear Admiral Julian R. Benjamin
Brig. Gen. Israel Drazin Rear Admiral Herb. M. Bridge
Brig. Gen. Herman Feldman Rear Admiral Jay Cohen
Brig. Gen. William M. Goodman Rear Admiral Louis Dreller
Brig. Gen. Edward S. Greenbaum Rear Admiral Hershel Goldberg
Brig. Gen. Sidney Gritz Rear Admiral Solomon Silas Isquith
Brig. Gen. Raymond Jacobson Rear Admiral Bertram Korn
Brig. Gen. Myron S. Lewis Rear Admiral Aaron Landes
Brig. Gen. William Meyer Rear Admiral Benjamin Lehman
Brig. Gen. Alfred Mordechai, Jr. Rear Admiral Ted Levy
Brig. Gen. Leopold C. Newman Rear Admiral Maurice H. Rindskopf
Brig. Gen. Fred Rosenbaum Rear Admiral Harold Robinson
Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff Rear Admiral Richard Schiff
Brig. Gen. Philip Sherman Rear Admiral Sumner Shapiro
Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Smith Rear Admiral Andrew Singer
Brig. Gen. David Zalis Rear Admiral Morris Smellow
Brev. Gen. Leopold Blumenberg Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss
Brev. Gen. Frederick Knefler Rear Admiral Edward Taussig
Brev. Gen. Edward S. Salomon Commodore Harry A. Badt
Brev. Maj. Gen. Frederick E. Salomon Commodore Uriah P. Levy
Commodore John Ordroneaux
Air Force
Surgeon General Phineas Horowitz
Gen. Norton A. Schwartz
Maj. Gen. Jerome N. Waldor Marine Corps
Maj. Gen. Bernard L. Weiss General Robert Magnus
Maj. Gen. Howard W. Chase
Coast Guard
Maj. Gen. Melvin Kruelewitch
Rear Admiral Joseph Greenspan Maj. Gen . Larry Taylor
Maj. Gen. William J. Weinstein
Brig. Gen. Martin L. Rockmore

Uniformed U.S. Public Health Service
Vice Admiral Julius Richmond
Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal
Rear Admiral Steven Galson
Rear Admiral Jerrold Michael

[Will Williams]

Last year two faggots married each other in the West Point chapel.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/army ... west-point

What if we had an actual war with a real country?

"We" would lose quick and "we" would lose big, C.E.

I received my copy of DAV magazine (Disabled American Veterans) for July/August. The magazine promotes the "new" diverse, unisex military each month as a rule, but an article in this issue has a feature article about the military's newest problem, MST (Military Sexual Trauma), that takes DAV's PC policy to a new plateau. The focus is on a Navy vereran named Michael Stern, who claims he was raped 12 years ago while he was drunk. He's been so traumatized ever since that he is now seeking disability for PTSD, though he was separated from the Navy in 2009 for failing alcohol rehabilitation. An isolated case like his might be understandable, though there was no evidence to back up his rape claim in 2008. But get this: "Stern was just one of 81,000 male veterans who reported experiencing MST when seeking VA care last year." That's just the male veterans, just last year!

How will these pansies stand up to the manly military pictured above?

[Will Williams]

The once proud, manly United States Marine Corps, like NASCAR, has also fallen victim to Political Correctness:
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Marine Corps Bans Confederate Displays

The commandant of the Marine Corps has ordered that all Confederate symbology be removed from Marine installations.

Commandant General David Berger is said to have instructed that all Marine bases remove any “Confederate-related paraphernalia” worldwide.

The directive was sent out as part of a memo, in which Berger demanded several initiatives be put in place, including finding ways to place more women in combat positions and to update their recruitment policies to prohibit those with prior domestic abuse convictions...

Marine Corps Commandant David Berger

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Follow up, here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 346701002/
Will the Black Lives Matter movement finally
put an end to Confederate flags and statues?
Wenei Philimon, Trevor Hughes, Marco della Cava
USA TODAY
June 12, 2020
[...]
The Navy announced Tuesday it would ban the Confederate flag from its military installations. Last week, the Marine Corps began implementing a ban on displaying the flag in any form. That decision is a nod toward the many African Americans serving in the armed forces...

[Will Williams]

I watched a few minutes of Commander-in-Chief Trump's commencement speech to West Point's class of 2025 yesterday. What a crock of rah rah jingoism! The funniest part was when he went off script and commented that the crowd of cadets looked like a handsome group of "male models." Uh oh! what did all of the female cadets think if that, especially the Black female ones?

(WEST POINT, N.Y.) — The class of cadets preparing to jubilantly toss their caps in the air at the U.S. Military Academy’s graduation ceremony Saturday includes 34 black women, a record number that’s a sign of concerted efforts to diversify West Point’s Long Gray Line.

West Point remains mostly white and mostly male. The 34 women comprise a thin slice of the roughly 1,000 cadets in the Class of 2019. Sometimes, they’re the only women of color in a classroom. Still, cadets said they’re proud to be part of a milestone at the historic academy after four years of testing their limits.

“I just showed myself and those who thought I couldn’t do it initially that yes, I can,” said senior cadet Stephanie Riley, of Jacksonville, Florida. “And not just, ‘yes, I can.’ I can show other little girls that yes, you can come to West Point. Yes, you can do something that maybe the rest of your peers aren’t actually doing. And yes, you can be different from the rest of the group.”

Riley was among the black female cadets who recently posed for pre-graduation photos in their gray uniforms, holding out ceremonial sabers. The pictures — part of a tradition for graduating cadets — were posted widely online and became a symbol of West Point’s increasing diversity.

“I was more excited to just take the picture because it means that we’re all graduating and it was great to be there with a lot of my sisters who have been there for me in very tough times during summer training and during the academic year,” said senior cadet Gabrielle Young, from Hopkins, South Carolina. “I didn’t expect it to have the impact that it did around the country.”

While West Point challenges every cadet, experiences can be different for black females.

Riley said people would look to her for comment during classroom discussions about race or slavery. Young said she’s acutely aware of how she carries herself and how she’s perceived by different people.

“I feel like in some ways that I do have to prove myself a little bit more, prove that I belong here. And even a classmate told me, I think our freshman year, that I only got in because I was a black female,” said Young, one of the few in her class chosen for medical school.

West Point boosted efforts to recruit women and blacks after being told to diversify in 2013 by then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno. The academy changed its marketing approach and opened a diversity office. Admissions officials increased outreach to metropolitan areas like New York City, Atlanta and Detroit. Not all of these efforts were aimed specifically at minorities or women, but they broadened the search for qualified candidates.

The addition of NCAA women’s lacrosse and rugby also helped West Point attract high school athletes.

The class graduating Saturday includes 223 women, the largest number since the first female cadets graduated in 1980. The class has 110 African Americans, double the number from 2013, and the largest number of Latinos, 88.

“We’re beginning to see the fruits of our labors,” director of admissions Col. Deborah McDonald said.

In another milestone, Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams became the first black superintendent at West Point last summer. In 2017, Simone Askew was the first black woman to become first captain of the Corps of Cadets, the highest student position at academy.

Even with the progress in diversity, West Point has not been immune to issues faced by the military and society. Sexual assault and harassment have been such a persistent problem that Williams suspended classes for a day in February so the entire academy could focus intently on them. And it was only four years ago that 16 black female seniors inadvertently stirred up controversy by raising clenched fists in one of their own pre-graduation pictures.

Critics saw political overtones in a gesture that supporters said was made in good-natured solidarity.

On Saturday, Young and Riley will be among the graduates commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army after an address by Vice President Mike Pence. Riley will go into the Signal Corps. Young will study to become a doctor.

“I don’t think I would trade this experience for anything in the world,” Young said. “I know that I’ve accomplished a lot and I know that I’m prepared for whatever.”

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I watched a few minutes of Commander-in-Chief Trump's commencement speech to West Point's class of 2025 yesterday. What a crock of rah rah jingoism! The funniest part was when he went off script and commented that the crowd of cadets looked like a handsome group of "male models." Uh oh! what dis all of the female cadets think if that, especially the Black female ones?

(WEST POINT, N.Y.) — The class of cadets preparing to jubilantly toss their caps in the air at the U.S. Military Academy’s graduation ceremony Saturday includes 34 black women, a record number that’s a sign of concerted efforts to diversify West Point’s Long Gray Line.

West Point remains mostly white and mostly male. The 34 women comprise a thin slice of the roughly 1,000 cadets in the Class of 2019. Sometimes, they’re the only women of color in a classroom. Still, cadets said they’re proud to be part of a milestone at the historic academy after four years of testing their limits.

“I just showed myself and those who thought I couldn’t do it initially that yes, I can,” said senior cadet Stephanie Riley, of Jacksonville, Florida. “And not just, ‘yes, I can.’ I can show other little girls that yes, you can come to West Point. Yes, you can do something that maybe the rest of your peers aren’t actually doing. And yes, you can be different from the rest of the group.”

Riley was among the black female cadets who recently posed for pre-graduation photos in their gray uniforms, holding out ceremonial sabers. The pictures — part of a tradition for graduating cadets — were posted widely online and became a symbol of West Point’s increasing diversity.

“I was more excited to just take the picture because it means that we’re all graduating and it was great to be there with a lot of my sisters who have been there for me in very tough times during summer training and during the academic year,” said senior cadet Gabrielle Young, from Hopkins, South Carolina. “I didn’t expect it to have the impact that it did around the country.”

While West Point challenges every cadet, experiences can be different for black females.

Riley said people would look to her for comment during classroom discussions about race or slavery. Young said she’s acutely aware of how she carries herself and how she’s perceived by different people.

“I feel like in some ways that I do have to prove myself a little bit more, prove that I belong here. And even a classmate told me, I think our freshman year, that I only got in because I was a black female,” said Young, one of the few in her class chosen for medical school.

West Point boosted efforts to recruit women and blacks after being told to diversify in 2013 by then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno. The academy changed its marketing approach and opened a diversity office. Admissions officials increased outreach to metropolitan areas like New York City, Atlanta and Detroit. Not all of these efforts were aimed specifically at minorities or women, but they broadened the search for qualified candidates.

The addition of NCAA women’s lacrosse and rugby also helped West Point attract high school athletes.

The class graduating Saturday includes 223 women, the largest number since the first female cadets graduated in 1980. The class has 110 African Americans, double the number from 2013, and the largest number of Latinos, 88.

“We’re beginning to see the fruits of our labors,” director of admissions Col. Deborah McDonald said.

In another milestone, Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams became the first black superintendent at West Point last summer. In 2017, Simone Askew was the first black woman to become first captain of the Corps of Cadets, the highest student position at academy.

Even with the progress in diversity, West Point has not been immune to issues faced by the military and society. Sexual assault and harassment have been such a persistent problem that Williams suspended classes for a day in February so the entire academy could focus intently on them. And it was only four years ago that 16 black female seniors inadvertently stirred up controversy by raising clenched fists in one of their own pre-graduation pictures.

Critics saw political overtones in a gesture that supporters said was made in good-natured solidarity.

On Saturday, Young and Riley will be among the graduates commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army after an address by Vice President Mike Pence. Riley will go into the Signal Corps. Young will study to become a doctor.

“I don’t think I would trade this experience for anything in the world,” Young said. “I know that I’ve accomplished a lot and I know that I’m prepared for whatever.”

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(WEST POINT, N.Y.) — The class of cadets preparing to jubilantly toss their caps in the air at the U.S. Military Academy’s graduation ceremony Saturday includes 34 black women, a record number that’s a sign of concerted efforts to diversify West Point’s Long Gray Line.

West Point remains mostly white and mostly male. The 34 women comprise a thin slice of the roughly 1,000 cadets in the Class of 2019. Sometimes, they’re the only women of color in a classroom. Still, cadets said they’re proud to be part of a milestone at the historic academy after four years of testing their limits.

“I just showed myself and those who thought I couldn’t do it initially that yes, I can,” said senior cadet Stephanie Riley, of Jacksonville, Florida. “And not just, ‘yes, I can.’ I can show other little girls that yes, you can come to West Point. Yes, you can do something that maybe the rest of your peers aren’t actually doing. And yes, you can be different from the rest of the group.”

Riley was among the black female cadets who recently posed for pre-graduation photos in their gray uniforms, holding out ceremonial sabers. The pictures — part of a tradition for graduating cadets — were posted widely online and became a symbol of West Point’s increasing diversity.

“I was more excited to just take the picture because it means that we’re all graduating and it was great to be there with a lot of my sisters who have been there for me in very tough times during summer training and during the academic year,” said senior cadet Gabrielle Young, from Hopkins, South Carolina. “I didn’t expect it to have the impact that it did around the country.”

While West Point challenges every cadet, experiences can be different for black females.

Riley said people would look to her for comment during classroom discussions about race or slavery. Young said she’s acutely aware of how she carries herself and how she’s perceived by different people.

“I feel like in some ways that I do have to prove myself a little bit more, prove that I belong here. And even a classmate told me, I think our freshman year, that I only got in because I was a black female,” said Young, one of the few in her class chosen for medical school.

West Point boosted efforts to recruit women and blacks after being told to diversify in 2013 by then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno. The academy changed its marketing approach and opened a diversity office. Admissions officials increased outreach to metropolitan areas like New York City, Atlanta and Detroit. Not all of these efforts were aimed specifically at minorities or women, but they broadened the search for qualified candidates.

The addition of NCAA women’s lacrosse and rugby also helped West Point attract high school athletes.

The class graduating Saturday includes 223 women, the largest number since the first female cadets graduated in 1980. The class has 110 African Americans, double the number from 2013, and the largest number of Latinos, 88.

“We’re beginning to see the fruits of our labors,” director of admissions Col. Deborah McDonald said.

In another milestone, Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams became the first black superintendent at West Point last summer. In 2017, Simone Askew was the first black woman to become first captain of the Corps of Cadets, the highest student position at academy.

Even with the progress in diversity, West Point has not been immune to issues faced by the military and society. Sexual assault and harassment have been such a persistent problem that Williams suspended classes for a day in February so the entire academy could focus intently on them. And it was only four years ago that 16 black female seniors inadvertently stirred up controversy by raising clenched fists in one of their own pre-graduation pictures.

Critics saw political overtones in a gesture that supporters said was made in good-natured solidarity.

On Saturday, Young and Riley will be among the graduates commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army after an address by Vice President Mike Pence. Riley will go into the Signal Corps. Young will study to become a doctor.

“I don’t think I would trade this experience for anything in the world,” Young said. “I know that I’ve accomplished a lot and I know that I’m prepared for whatever.”