(November 6, 2015 at 9:52 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Again, one doesn't have to apply to be offered or promised an appointment to a service academy.
I hadn't even considered the Naval Academy when a Blue and Gold Officer approached me. I was recruited, and told I would get an appointment having never even seen an application, much less filled out or submitted one.
There are no such things as scholarships to service academies. Its free. When you are being recruited or are applying, your blue and gold officer speaks in language that any 17 year old understands. They use terms like 'guaranteed scholarships' and 'full ride.'
You actually get paid a small allowance because you cannot have a job while you're attending. The repayment is 5 years of contracted service after graduating.
This is a story that is a guy 20 years ago making an unresearched statement and Politico made a mountain out of a mole hill.
My concern is that bogus stories like this one are going to take away from the actual things that make this man woefully unqualified for office and call into question his integrity.
And yet Westmoreland wasn't in Detroit in May. Doesn't that disconnection speak to the integrity of the claimant?
