The original statement read: “To educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the nation as an officer in the United States Army.”
But on March 11th Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland announced in a press release the changes that will be made. He wrote in an one-page letter:
To the Long Gray Line and all USMA Supporters:
Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy’s culture and will always remain our motto. It defines who we are as an institution and as graduates of West Point. These three hallowed words are the hallmark of the cadet experience and bind the Long Gray Line together across our great history.
Our responsibility to produce leaders to fight and win our nation’s wars requires us to assess ourselves regularly. Thus, over the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose. We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army – the Army in which our cadets will serve. As a result of this assessment, we recommended the following mission statement to our senior Army leadership:
To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.
Both the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff approved this recommendation.
Our updated mission statement focuses on the mission essential tasks of Build, Educate, Train, and Inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character, with the explicit purpose of being committed to the Army Values and Ready for a lifetime of service. The Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers. In the past century, West Point’s mission has changed nine times. Many graduates will recall the mission statement they learned as new cadets did not include the motto, as Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998.
Our absolute focus on developing leaders of character ready to lead our Army’s Soldiers on increasingly lethal battlefields remains unchanged.
Go Army!
Duty Honor Country!
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This small, unnecessary change speaks to just how the country has fallen, in my opinion. I mean, to me, there are much bigger things to worry about right now than this, but I still wanted to mention it because it just goes to demonstrate the incremental decline this country has undergone for a very long time. Most people are not going to click on the “Army Values” tab, they are just going to see the vague and ambiguous, inclusive text. And that’s what this is really all about: pacifying the rage of progressives who have been conditioned to hate their country with a burning envy, while also trying to fill their depleted ranks. But hey, I guess we gotta get more “Emma’s” and their two moms in their, right?
How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the war?
Jeremiah 48:14
Ironically, however, when you come to the realization that most people (who read The WinePress) have, you realize the military is no longer honorable; it’s duty is to overturn countries, topple governments, destroy economies, steal natural resources; and does not fight for Americans and for this land, but for wealthy industry and its Jesuit puppet masters.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“America is the most powerful military in the world” ha ha ha NOT ANYMORE!!!
The Armed Forces are Godless, bloodthirsty, and now woke, promoting Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity (DEI), sodomy, feminism, and let’s not forget, the jabs.
Female recruits doing dance videos for TikTok in their barracks, a transgender admiral and a sex pervert general who wears a dog mask among other perverts both in the ranks and in leadership, throwing out masculine and tough male soldiers because it’s “toxic” so they can have an overweight gay trans black non-binary whatsit be a sergeant!
When World War III begins and especially when or if there’s boots of a foreign army on the ground, they’re going to be squashed like grapes!
Hey Jacob, it’s alright if you report on the little things, I eat it all up either way. I don’t loathe the honeycomb.
7) The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
Proverbs 27:7
That’s me. Report on whatever you want whenever you want it edifies me either way. 🙂
what happened to brother bryan’s video he made about what will most likely happen next where he drew on his white board 2 ways all this will unfold?
i think yt deleted it but you know where it is can you leave a l i n k for me.
thank you
Which video was it? Do you remember the name?
Excellent commentary, Jacob! Kanadastan and the DSA are united in this debacle. Oddly enough, we seldom ever hear anything re: Mexico in all of this…Other than being the gateway that assists the future assassins, and replacements, next to nothing is being reported on Mexico. One really should ask why that is? Are they harboring huge Chiiiinese armies-in-waiting?
Yes, Mexico is shipping in Chinese troops and operatives of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) through the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mexico is working with China also by bringing in fentanyl which comes from China. The cartels are Xi Jinping’s useful idiots.
They changed it to read thusly because the timing isn’t right yet to say “duty, honor, NATO” or “duty, honor, NWO”.
They probably want to add something about the transgenders being allowed to be in the military too. After all we have to take care of our mentally freaked out people too.
They’re trying to get us to give up our weapons, but yet they passed the law that the illegals are allowed to purchase weapons now too. WWW (weird world we)live in today.