Applications Rise at the Military Academies
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Great - If?
Admission is based on merit, not some foolish promotion of mediocrity.
Great - if?
As long as admission is based on merit and not some liberal crackpot promotion of mediocrity, I think it's great.
Admission Should be Merit Based
As a graduate of USNA, I am very interested in the incoming classes. The quality of the incoming plebes will be reflected directly in the quality of the graduating class. It is very important in these times that the service academies not lower their admission standards. Believe me, going through the 4-year program at Navy was not a WPA project, nor is the required period of military service following graduation an easy road. While I obviously think that Annapolis has the best program, West Point does quite well in the US News annual report on colleges. Inb the past, both schools have produced great leaders of our military and should continue to do so in the future. Keeping them for any other purpose is a waste of the taxpayers' money. As a nation, we cannot afford anything less than the finest military possible.
It's the change, stupid
Unemployment during the "great depression" used WPA make work projects to put people back to work.
Today, in an even more dangerous world, putting people to work wearing uniforms are the equivalent of the WPA.
Hey, whatever works!
I suspect plenty of people
would sign up for regular service in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard too if we announced (as we should) that we were going to double the size of those forces. Why not do this as a jobs program and GET something in return for government stimulus spending? America has overworked the current forces and we're vulnerable if we need to deploy anywhere else. Why?
We're itching to spend money, aren't we?
