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<\/center><\/p>\nLast week we discussed Lt Spenser Rapone<\/a> and his antics celebrating his communist leanings while in uniform. Yesterday, the Superintendent of the West Point US Military Academy, Lieutenant General Robert Caslen addressed the problem;<\/p>\n We posted a statement that Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Heffington wrote<\/a> about Cadet Rapone. The Lieutenant Colonel explains his motivations for releasing that statement last week in a letter posted in Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n First and foremost, standards at West Point are nonexistent. They exist on paper, but nowhere else. The senior administration at West Point inexplicably refuses to enforce West Point\u2019s publicly touted high standards on cadets, and, having picked up on this, cadets refuse to enforce standards on each other. The Superintendent refuses to enforce admissions standards or the cadet Honor Code, the Dean refuses to enforce academic standards, and the Commandant refuses to enforce standards of conduct and discipline. The end result is a sort of malaise that pervades the entire institution. Nothing matters anymore. Cadets know this, and it has given rise to a level of cadet arrogance and entitlement the likes of which West Point has never seen in its history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Officer basically says that USMA is no different than any other university in the country, more concerned with creating a safe space for cadets than educating them. This is not my shocked face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Caslen-statement-1-235x300.jpg\")
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