Recent content by Mike Schaertl

[/ QUOTE] You have to look beyond the nomination. Yes, you do need a nomination to get an appointment. For every vacancy (I.e. appointment) your Congressman can nominate 10 applicants. I sit on a committee which interviews prospective cadets for our local congressman. Along with...

Back in the day we used to have to memorize Schofield's Definition of Discipline. I used to have a poster of this until my USNA mid put it up on his wall. Fantastic guidance: The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or...

It most certainly is about training our sons and daughters to lead. Not only training the cadre to lead but also training the new cadets. I told my two younger brothers and son who went to USMA and another son who went to USNA that they will see all types of leaderships styles their first year...

Billy, we agree that subjecting people to stress and seeing if they can work under that stress is a very very important gauge of character. And at one time that was the purpose of Beast. However, that mission has changed. USMA has changed and we ought not criticize the cadets/cadre/chain of...

I would say an email/letter to your Congressman, Senator, Commandant of Cadets.

And that is exactly where the problems start, people not understanding the purpose of Beast. As defined by the Superintendent and the Commandant of the Corps of Cadets on R-day, 2013, the purpose of Beast is NOT attrition. As the Commandant stated, it may have been when he was a cadet in the 80s...

MemberLG, if your standard for whether or not you cross the line of the rules for the forum is action by the Moderator, apparently the lines have been crossed. However, even well before the Moderator was forced to take action, there had been a sad lack of professionalism on this site, whether or...