<p>I wonder if this is just another step in “dumbing down” the core requirements for the Academies. A professor at USNA - Sterling? - just wrote an article that only 50 percent of the slots at USNA are filled competitively and that standards - academic and physical - have been dropped for diversity’s sake. Saw a piece on CNN where the Navy trotted out a woman who was getting special tutoring in Engineering and she said, “I’ll have no problem being a leader”. Hmmm - wonder what it will be like when she’s in charge of the nuclear reactor and there’s a problem.</p>