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it's true that academic excellence is not directly related to military success
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While there's plenty of meat to chew on in these observations, the easiest to debunk is this one. Despite the aberrent anecdotes showcasing the occasional misbehaving class bottom-dweller legacy who goes on to marry well and become a U.S. politician thanks to her largesse ... or on the other end, the USNA Rhodes Scholar who couldn't find his behind when the lights are turned out let alone lead a platoon of peers to the grocery store ...and they abound and mean nothing beyond interesting fodder for those who somehow think these mutant cases provide sufficient evidence to pooh-pooh USNA's longstanding fundamental framework for identifying her "best" as her brightest ...
Who gets the #1 choice of assignment? The #1 ranked Mid, most of which is determined by his/her academic merit.
Will this now change to ensure that minorities are proportionately distributed in the USN professional communities? It seeminly would follow.
What did even Sen. McCain's admiral granddaddy say was the most important thing in developing and identifying top-shelf Navy officers? Men who could and would be able to THINK on the fly. While indeed there are many types of gifts, the NFL needs fast lads who can catch a football, no matter their color or lack there of.
In fact, the USN has long determined the single most significant factor in predicting who'll be the best officers in the Navy, are the brightest. Until now that is.
The question never asked and never addressed remains: ...
Can anyone lend insight as to why it has now been determined that the body of officers must relect the same ethnicity of enlisted, even when requires separate-and-unequal tracks for admission and completion?
P.S. Amen 2010! Who'da thunk it!
'Tis a good thing.