Recent content by jojo

The Academy response did little to ameliorate concerns. In fact, it probably raised more questions than it answered. This is likely because the program itself is a bad idea from the start and there's not a lot they can say to justify a bad idea. I'm hoping that the cadet wing does not suffer...

This is the concern and the root problem - The undermining of implicit trust in fellow cadets who are needed to carry each other through extremely trying circumstances. My concern is that there are those in leadership that could not see this and approved or tacitly approved of the program...

Below is what landed him in the cross-hairs of OSI. He hesitated to turn-in fellow cadets for conduct at a party that OSI apparently had an informant at already. There was no indication in the story that he personally smoked pot, spice or drank at the party. "Thomas said he wasn’t...

This statement always makes me nervous, and the flippancy of it with the future of a cadet's career and future at stake makes me even more nervous. From the facts we now have in front of us, what Thomas did wrong was at the request of OSI. And this appears to be the reason reimbursement was...

There are 2 separate issues going on here: 1. The pros/cons of the overall policy. 2. The treatment of Thomas as a result of the policy. It seems odd that so may people are only looking at issue (1) in regard to the operation. If these facts bear out (and it seems compelling on its...