Whistle Pig
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Nails it. And enabling USNA to establish elite, disparate groups and privileges unavailable to all men and women citizens is precisely the reason the Revolution was fought. To escape tyranny and the notion of "class", i.e. that one's birthright becomes essential to one's possibilities.Excellent point and another sad example of some misplaced priorities at the USNA.
Martin Luther King must be rolling over in his grave. His objective was a fair, honest OPPORTUNITY for all, regardless of color, creed, race. At it's best, this is unconstitutional. At its worst, its immoral and not merely un-American, but anti-American.
And it dismisses and diminishes one of the fundamental principles of our military and its success in becoming the greatest the world has ever known ... the fundamental notion that no matter who you are, where you've come from, where your parents or grandparents have matriculated from ... a soldier and a sailor shall be assessed and recognized according to his/her performance, what she's done!
This will be resolved as the taxpaying public/electorate grasp the fact that there are overtly racist policies deemed the #1 priority of the military.