May we speak 'blunt'ly?
As an USNA alumnus of some 25 years (a fact driven home by recent talk of a 25th reunion ... ugh) I'm finding this latest dust-up at my alma mater disappointing. Here's the thread that more or less started it all over at CDR Salamander's place.
I don't know what I find more disturbing:
- That a person supposedly smart/worldly enough to gain admission to Navy "didn't know" he was smoking weed.
- That a person supposedly smart/worldly enough to gain admission doesn't know you don't "inhale" what he thought was a cigar.
- A corollary to b, the fact that he didn't double over immediately w/ spasms of coughing might be an indication of some experience with actual inhalation of real or "other" types of cigars, meaning maybe he should've know the difference?
- That said Mid'n, who had several alleged (let's be generous, shall we?) brushes with the Honor Code in his short tenure was even still matriculated.
- That a person who made it through Plebe Summer (or at least my Plebe Summer) as well as a first and second year at Navy had not gained the moral fiber to stop this behavior, or at least resign once discovered?
- That the leaders of our future leaders, whether we like it or not, seem to so ambivalent to what's right and what's wrong?
I used to hear about the guys from the 60's and (maybe) the 70's lamenting what had happened to their Navy ... now I know how they feel.
