Does NAPS time count for all NAPSters or only the ex-enlisted?
USMAPS time counts for Invitational Reservists (out of High School) now on active duty at Ft. Monmouth, and Prior Service enlisted Prepsters now at Ft. Monmouth, they'll have 10 months of AD credit. Not sure about NAPS.
Back on topic,
When Fowler credited so many high level USNA graduated Naval Officers that were USNA athletes in his rebuttal, I wonder how many were involved, that
didn't have a "Pro" contract waiting with "recruiting duty" a possibility? That or at least use that argument to get them to attend the academy when recruiting? That is a valid question because I think most here understand the value of athletics in college. Also, lets not cloud the issue here, the issue is "Race" and "favoritism", pure and simple.
Fowler might have been the guy in place when the stars aligned and the "systemic" issues were coming to light but, he sure as hell shouldn't have given a pass to a player that was recommended for separation by the Dean, with so much [albeit reported] evidence. The player in question is on record as to saying he
did smoke the cigar so that we know is true.
Fowler made the light of Diversity at the academy his defining moment by his practices/choice with orders from the CNO, it will be his legacy now. Yes, the CNO helped and an argument could be made that both men [possibly] benefited more than most of their Generation in the Navy from the "old ways", that they now claim they want to stamp out. I think most would agree that the "old ways" were being phased out by at least the mid '70's. As a former enlisted Marine from the the early '80's, I can tell you there was in fact no room for any shape or form of racism, Marines were Marines.
For an outsider like myself, one that has been involved with DS and DD in the college application process for the last 4 years; and having been involved with a NJROTC unit as a parent chaperon and volunteer for literally dozens of out of town college fairs or overnight visits to Naval bases (Mayport, Kingsbay, USNA and NASJAX), the glaring hypocrisy and double standards are reaching a head. I've witnessed Academy representatives (Marine Captain, Navy LT AD and many retired) say things to a group of high school students that made everyone in the room very uncomfortable. I've heard the words "did he [or she] actually say that?" and it all came from the top, Fowler and Roughead. I've actually been told here that: (paraphrase) the ones that complain the most, are the ones that being targeted the most. Yeah, NS, it's called an unfair system and not constitutional seeing that it's funded by US Taxpayers dollars! The convenient insinuations of "racism" usually get the discussion shut down but, that doesn't change the fact that the policy is wrong and the new Supe will have to repair the damage done.
Even though I didn't attend the Naval Academy, or have a child there that I can live vicariously through, I was intimately involved in their application process over the last 3 years and, it's stinks with hypocrisy!
JMHO
