The woke agenda starts off potential academy cadets lying from the very beginning. And then if they get in, they still have to lie (like saying a male academy professor wearing a female uniform is a woman) just to get through. Honor Code much?

By JW, retired USAF on X

My son had offers to play lacrosse at West Point and Air Force Academy (he was not interested in Annapolis after a camp there, he was not impressed with their cadets he ran into). As anyone knows if they have familiarity with the military academies, big/small sports help quite a…

— JW (@C130GuyBNA) December 11, 2024

My son had offers to play lacrosse at West Point and Air Force Academy (he was not interested in Annapolis after a camp there, he was not impressed with their midshipmen he ran into). As anyone knows if they have familiarity with the military academies, big/small sports help quite a bit although not an immediate entry unless you are Chad Hennings.

The academies have different ambassadors (I forget the real name) in every area which do interviews for potential academic candidates. Because I am an involved veteran I knew both of them.

My son did an informal prep meeting with both West Point and Air Force Academy and both of them regretfully said,

“You’re going to have to act super woke in order to pass this.

We’re going to ask all sorts of questions about LGBT stuff—you can’t laugh or be non-supportive.

You need to either be a big fan or say something like ‘live and let live/diversity is great.’”

as well as other somewhat horrifying tips on how to make it through the process.

Ultimately my kid who grew up around AFSOC USASOC JSOC and quite a few international military GOF/SOF heroes decided he was not interested because the military sounded too weird.

The Air Force Academy liaison (thank you) went to church with me so that was sort of an easy kill. The army one was referred to me by Marsha and it turns out another guy in church was a West Point alumni and they were friends so we were sort of connected there as well.

They did not mean to but they basically talked to my son out of applying because of the nature of what the academies were saying they were screening with.

Both said that you will go through the whole process and all of the work described in the previous post and then you won’t get it based on race/gender/woke status unless you fake it really well.

Because of an argument with my HR shop I had done a 23-and-Me and found that I was 3% Congolese and on his mother side they have some Cherokee blood down around the Elizabeth Warren level (maybe 2%).

Both of them said that he should highly emphasize his biracial/indigenous nature and how that plus the hardships of being a military brat made him a victim. They said that was one of the best ways to get in or so then athletics, Boy Scout, boys state, grades, etc.

Had I not dealt with the Air Force Academy in the last two or three years I would not have believed them.

Later when he looked at a Coast Guard ROTC equivalent (CSPI), the recruiter called me at work and said “you don’t sound black, this program is for blacks and Hawaiian natives unless you are another race and go to an HBCU or University of Hawaii.”

He was very good natured about it when I said, “what does it mean to ‘sound black’ but you are correct”? He said the same thing as the liaison – “you’re gonna go through a lot of paperwork and I’m telling you right now CSPI is only for black kids and a few native Hawaiians.”

We thought this whole process was so funny I actually went onto his Hudl account and added some apostrophes into his first and last name (a la Key & Peele) so that he looked more ethnic so that a coach focused on DEI might stop for a second and actually look at his video.

Anyway – none of that shit should be in the DOD.

In fact, Pete would be smart if he put out an edict that recruiting training promotion awards should scrub race and gender from every package and you look at merit only.

I can do a promotion board evaluating “candidate number 37″ or reference the last four of the social just as easy as evaluating the package for “Captain Sarah Hernandez.”

Do everything you can to convert DOD into a strict meritocracy.

I personally don’t have a problem with women and combat if they can meet the standards but that’s going to be way way way lower than anyone’s quotas. Certain SOCOM special mission units need females so I think we have a place for the one in 1 million Sarah Connor/Rhonda Rousey who sign up.

I’m also OK with non-deployable support forces having a different “health/appearance“ standard and not held to the same standard as people slightly/moderately/extremely likely to be in a combat situation. That seems like the best move because then women who don’t meet the standards who are in combat roles can shift into nondeployable roles instead of just exiting the military. Use them to backfill in the REMF core and then recruit/train based on straight merit for the pointy end of the spear.

Some of the comments on the post:

“My neighbors son was West Point grad/Apache pilot. His son got a nomination to West Point and to play football. He is white and he is a Christian and he did not want to deal with that so what somewhere else to play D1.”

“Thanks for sharing this. My son is considering applying and this woke bs will be a problem. He won’t toe the line.”

“You have got to be kidding. What is the point of even going there? They can do this crap at any college.”

Answer by original poster:

Yes but filtering access for an extremely qualified and interested candidate hurts the DOD mission as well as my kid.

What is happening is the universities filter route certain races/genders and over represent others “in the name of equity” who then either don’t want to or don’t have the ability to fill demanding/dangerous combat roles such as fighter pilot and special forces officers.

The current system basically castrates the DOD because the academies are a key point of entry to the military leadership corps.