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I think that all 3 United States Military Academies have a legal limit of number of students - established by Congress. Is that true? Are all 3 United States Military Academies the same authorized strength. Can anyone confirm? [[User:Wfoj3|Wfoj3]] ([[User talk:Wfoj3|talk]]) 00:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC) |
I think that all 3 United States Military Academies have a legal limit of number of students - established by Congress. Is that true? Are all 3 United States Military Academies the same authorized strength. Can anyone confirm? [[User:Wfoj3|Wfoj3]] ([[User talk:Wfoj3|talk]]) 00:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC) |
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I'm seeing many image sandwiches in this article. This will need to be resolved, as this is a FA. <span style="color:#AAA"><small>{{u|</small><span style="border-radius:9em;padding:0 5px;background:#088">[[User:Sdkb|<span style="color:#FFF">'''Sdkb'''</span>]]</span><small>}}</small></span> <sup>[[User talk:Sdkb|'''talk''']]</sup> 07:07, 30 June 2021 (UTC) |
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West Point indoctrinating students with far-left extremist propaganda
Perhaps this article should mention the infiltration of radical leftists into West Point and their forced indoctrination of future military brass with feminizing cultural Marxist propaganda: www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/28/woke-west-point-curriculum-denounces-toxic-masculinity — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lankcamus (talk • contribs) 00:51, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Also, shouldn't the article identify that former students like Robert Lee turned traitor? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.145.148.240 (talk) 19:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
Primary sources?
@Deadbolt44: I disagree with your multiple tags (27 by my count) objecting to primary sources in this article. It is not at all uncommon for information about an academic institution, such as the admission requirements and the honor code, to be cited to the institution itself. Even the history is often quite properly cited to the institution’s own documentation. This is a Featured Article, so the primary sources - 27 out of 254? - can’t have been that big a problem to the reviewers in that demanding process. I was going to remove these tags, but I see that user:ElKevbo has already done so. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:13, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- These also aren't primary sources; they may be self-published but that is not inherently a problem. ElKevbo (talk) 18:08, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you for the explanation, I'll learn the lesson! Deadbolt44 (talk) 17:46, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Cheating scandals
I just want to resuscitate these two archived posts from 2011, because I have the exact same question.
Upon re-reading this article today, it occurs to me that not a word is said about the several serious cheating scandals -- conspiracies, really, not just individual incidents -- with which the Academy has had to deal in the past three or four decades. I realize it's an unpleasant topic, and one which Academy boosters might wish to minimize, but since the issue is a direct contravention of the Honor Code, about which more than a little is said in the article, I don't believe it ought to be ignored. (The other service academies have had the same problem, of course.) --Michael K SmithTalk 01:26, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
- Hey, you're right. :( The Navy article is even worse; one of their cheating scandals - the electrical engineering scandal of the 1990s - caused them to change their honor code. ElKevbo (talk) 02:04, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
There is presently a brief section at Paul D. Harkins#West Point cheating scandal concerning the 1951 occasion, and nothing more than a mention of 1976, which I've now redlinked, at Andrew Goodpaster#First retirement —
Given the relevance of current headlines such as "West Point accuses more than 70 cadets of cheating in worst academic scandal in nearly 45 years" USA Today, 21 December 2020, it would be helpful for Wikipedia to include discussions of these earlier headline-generating scandals. Milkunderwood (talk) 03:13, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Agree that note of these incidents are worthy of inclusion. - wolf 16:03, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Service Academies - Number of Students
I think that all 3 United States Military Academies have a legal limit of number of students - established by Congress. Is that true? Are all 3 United States Military Academies the same authorized strength. Can anyone confirm? Wfoj3 (talk) 00:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
I'm seeing many image sandwiches in this article. This will need to be resolved, as this is a FA. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 07:07, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
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