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Originally Posted by vabeachgirlNYC
What an embarrassment to them, their families and unfortunately West Point too. How stupid can you be to get accepted there, then blow it by doing drugs. It's a privilege to attend West Point. They don't deserve that honor.
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Well, A and B.
A: In almost any college class, not everyone who enters graduates. People are weeded out along the way, one way or another. Just accept this as another weeding out process, a nice one all things considered, before graduation and commission.
B: Rather hard to judge what the maturity is just on face value, of where they are. I was in a graduate abnormal psychology class where one of the text books was the DSM-IV-TR. The prof gave out case histories as assignments and he was getting answers back of "He has a Type A personalty.". Really? How does one get into a graduate class to be able to give such an off the cuff, unprofessional answer? Nevertheless..........
........................and then, there is C: When one is so dedicated to a strict regime, they can be seen by those not in such as very uptight. Such as it is with me when I am riding with someone who is speeding and it is similar with those who see nothing wrong with smoking grass (that is, I avoid them as much as possible). It's okay for me, I've had a life with so much teasing, I keep my shields up to protect myself to the point of being rather anti social. For me, one says "No" right up front and goes the other way.
But what about for someone who is young, who has not been stabbed to know to watch their back, even raise to see how fun (and right) Captain Pierce is and what a jerk Major Burns is, who knows in for a penny, in for a pound or even thinks they can make it right a little further in? Then it is understandable, not forgivable but understandable, to how they could become involved.
Finally, I know the stuff as only bad stuff. In our cherry picking information world, is there sufficient counter information out there that says it isn't, that people would believe?
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Originally Posted by charmed hour
Those two, too.  But there is more room for Superintendent discretion for those 2 violations depending on what the exact violations entail. Apparently, the Army actually recognizes character development lasts much longer than into your early 20s. |
Well, there is character development and there is leadership. Is this the kind of officer who is going to be followed into fire by their troops? (nutshell)
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