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The Emails West Point Doesn't Want You to See

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point says it severely punished its men's rugby team for participating in an lewd email chain that was derogatory to women. A former cadet says that's misleading PR fluff. We got our hands on the emails about "rando skanks" and "black strap-ons" that reportedly prompted the nation's top military academy to intervene. 15 senior West Point cadets were charged last month with violating multiple disciplinary codes for forwarding emails detailing the sexual "highs and lows" of the elite academy's rugby team. They graduated and became U.S. soldiers after 8 days of hastily condensed discipline.

Pentagon investigators found that the three-star Army general in charge of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point misused his office by having subordinates perform personal tasks, but the results remained confidential until the eve of his retirement, according to newly released documents. Lt. Gen. David H. Huntoon Jr., the West Point superintendent, improperly made staffers work at private charity dinners, provide free driving lessons and feed a friend’s cats, according to a report by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General.

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A Reluctant Prince

I was in New York recently, helping my 18-year-old daughter, Lilly, a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, paint her new apartment. To pass the time I was telling her stories about my student days in New York, when I was a cadet at West Point and often visited the city on leave. She had just traveled up to West Point to attend the Yearling (sophomore) prom with a cadet from back home in Tennessee. With that in mind I asked her if she wanted to hear a romantic story about a night when I was a Yearling and went on a date to a prom. She did.

Asked why he pursued a military career, 2nd Lt. Michael Manougian said of himself and others who graduated from high school in 2009, “We were old enough to remember the attacks on 9/11.” Regarding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the terrorist attacks, Manougian, who just graduated near the top of his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, said, “I generally believed in what we’re doing. I didn’t want to sit on the sidelines. I wanted to do something for the country.”

West Point cadets are in Mississippi Tuesday and Wednesday to learn about the civil rights movement. The United States Military Academy as begun a program of civil rights studies in the departments of law and history that involves integrating classroom lessons, film review and a staff ride through the Southern states, visiting significant and historic locations of the civil rights movement. The visit focuses on the study of Civil Rights and Law in a historical context. In the classroom, instruction focused on the legal issues and cases regarding civil rights, from the constitutional debates on slavery to Brown vs. the Board of Education and beyond.

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