The mission statement of the top military academy in the United States has undergone a significant revision – thanks to the recommendation of outside consultants and with the approval of Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff Randy George.
In a letter to cadets, West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland noted that the phrase “Duty, Honor, Country,” which was coined by Gen. Douglas MacArthur 62 years ago and later added to the academy's mission statement, had been replaced with the term “Army values.” Gilland noted that the previous phrase was venerable, but the Army still opted for the nebulous expression. (RELATED: Woke Technocrats Set To Rewrite Reality Forever If Given The Chance)
“Our responsibility to produce leaders to fight and win our nation's wars requires us to assess ourselves regularly,” Gilland continued. “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.”
The superintended claimed that the revision “binds the Academy to the Army.”
From 1998 to 2024, the mission statement of the United States Military Academy was: “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.”
A press release from the West Point Public Affairs Office, states that the updated statement is “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 professional excellence and service to the Army and Nation.” (RELATED: Marines Flown Into War-Torn Country, Ordered To Save Americans)
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One West Point graduate, Randy DeSoto, wrote in The Western Journal that he was among the “entire Corps of Cadets” who watched a movie of MacArthur's speech on its 25th anniversary in 1987.
“The general closed by telling the cadets, ‘In the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country,'” DeSoto wrote.
“Hopefully, the same will be true for today's West Point cadets, even with ‘Duty, Honor, Country' no longer in the mission statement.”
Commenting on social media, one veteran remarked that West Point was becoming a social experiment with the new mission statement baked in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) buzzwords.
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