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President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement to officials of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point last week that hes speaking at graduation, requiring that the school recall 1,000 cadets who had left their New York campus as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, The New York Times reported.West Point officials had postponed commencement, initially scheduled for May 23, and it was unclear when, or even if, the ceremony would be held, according to the Times. The academys 4,000 cadets were told to stay home after spring break and continue their studies online, The Military Times reported.
The presidents plan means graduating cadets will have to travel from hometowns across the nation to the state with the highest number of coronavirus deaths. The campus is about an hours drive north of New York City.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/west-point-commencement-trump-ny-cadets_n_5ea38419c5b6f96398151078
LisaL
(44,962 posts)Have them drink bleach?
riversedge
(69,713 posts)patphil
(6,028 posts)But the cadets will have to be there.
Another unbelievably bad decision from President Dumb Ass.
jimfields33
(15,456 posts)In fact, during the week following graduation they will be traveling somewhere. I dont know how some will go overseas. Maybe there are contingency plans for that. Regardless they are active duty after commissioning.
BGBD
(3,282 posts)Gather a huge group of people from all over the country near the epicenter of CV is the world, and the disseminate those people to every US military base in the world.
Sounds like a terrorist plot in a Tom Clancy novel
Fiendish Thingy
(15,366 posts)Since it is a military school, can they be court-martialed and lose their officers commission?
jimfields33
(15,456 posts)Its been done before. Nobody will refuse.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,059 posts)Solomon
(12,305 posts)Jersey Devil
(9,863 posts)nt
progree
(10,864 posts)Last Friday, the day before Mr. Pence was to speak at the Air Force ceremony in Colorado, Mr. Trump, never one to be upstaged, abruptly announced that he would, in fact, be speaking at West Point.
That was news to everyone, including officials at West Point, according to three people involved with or briefed on the event. The academy had been looking at the option of a delayed presidential commencement in June, but had yet to complete any plans.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/18/837974222/we-ll-get-through-this-pence-tells-air-force-academy-graduates
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)One Evil Idiot.
Harker
(13,872 posts)He'll want to administer the loyalty oath.
Maybe get a parade out of it.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)in order to gratify his narcissistic ego?