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2013-07-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

By James Taranto

Trent Cromartie was cleared of sexual-assault charges. But the cadet was kicked out of school anyway.

Posted by ryuge 2013-07-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Maj. Pickler testified that Col. Vermeesch prefaced his recommendation with a pre-emptive denial: "Just to be clear, this is not UCI." [Unlawful Command Influence]

Bullocks !

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 01:12|| 2013-07-27 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like he should have been kicked out - for wrongful conduct, even though it wasn't illegal. But I guess I'm just old-fashioned.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-27 01:23|| 2013-07-27 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Why does this sounds familiar?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 01:23|| 2013-07-27 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 g(r)omgoru: why does this sound familiar? I'm not sure it is familiar yet - but it will be. Every male accused (not even convicted) of sexual misconduct of any kind - will end up getting separated under Obama's orders.

I am so glad that I was in the Navy 40 years ago rather than now, and that I was married at the time.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-07-27 02:12|| 2013-07-27 02:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Purging the ranks and internal destruction of the military through gender wars. Highly effective, both at the top [Petraeus/Broadwell], and at the bottom. The regime is served and well pleased.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 02:30|| 2013-07-27 02:30|| Front Page Top

#6 By the way, just so no one gets the wrong impression - I am still married - to the same woman.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-07-27 02:38|| 2013-07-27 02:38|| Front Page Top

#7 An army that can parade is not an army prepared to fight, an army that can fight is not prepared to parade.

Some day something like this will trigger a thought in someone's mind that it's cheaper to give all the applicants scholarships to civil universities that to operate and maintain the academies. Originally West Point was not only set up for military training, but also to produce civil engineers that the young country needed to build its vast expanses. They did away with that 'engineer' mentality back in the 50s when they did away with it as the sole degree.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-07-27 08:21|| 2013-07-27 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Hal Moore [who needs no introduction] is a USAMA Grad. Ben Malcom, who wrote 'White Tigers' graduated North Georgia. Both live near here. It isn't the institution, it's the leadership of the institution and country, and the man.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 08:56|| 2013-07-27 08:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Any kids/grandkids Rambler?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 10:14|| 2013-07-27 10:14|| Front Page Top

#10 It WAS misconduct, he admitted to drinking, to being drunk, and to having s@x with another cadet, all of which were conduct violations. Her list of infractions would also include lying about it - which is the only thing HE was - IMO wrongly - convicted of. She should also have been kicked out.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-27 11:25|| 2013-07-27 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 It WAS misconduct, he admitted to drinking, to being drunk, and to having s@x with another cadet, all of which were conduct violations.

Tell me you forgot the "sarc of", Glenmore.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 16:46|| 2013-07-27 16:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Those all are - or at least used to be - conduct violations for cadets. Individually only the lying about them would have warranted expulsion, but a pattern of inability to exercise self-disclipline used to be unacceptable.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-07-27 17:51|| 2013-07-27 17:51|| Front Page Top

#13 g(r)om: 5 sons, three grand kids, so far.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-07-27 21:44|| 2013-07-27 21:44|| Front Page Top

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