<p>I’m rather curious- which of these articles do you see as positive and reassuring rather than an indictment of the USNA administration that supports what GoNavyXC has been saying about the gutting of the Honor Concept? Sure the Commandant says “the Honor Concept is important to the Commandant” - but it seems hard to imagine the Commandant saying that he’s not interested in the Honor concept so that’s hardly reassuring. What else does he say that makes you think things are changing at all? It’s all alumni who are quoted as saying things were adrift- not Capt Klunder who is carefully modulating what he says in this article. In fact reading it closely it seems to me that he is making an awful lot of justifications for honor violators- talking about the stresses placed on Midshipmen and categorizing an awful lot of things as “minor violations” which don’t seem so minor to many of the alumni interviewed who also make some pretty telling comments about the remediation vs separation approach. "According to the case reports and related documents, instances of lying and cheating frequently involve multiple midshipmen acting in concert. Also according to the records, some mids have been allowed to violate honor standards multiple times without being separated.
“What got me was the conspiracies to commit honor violations,” said Curt C. Hartman, a 1987 Naval Academy graduate and the attorney who worked for two years to obtain the honor reports. “The mids know they will be ‘remediated’ and not separated.”</p>
<p>As far as Captain Klunder’s points about the stresses and time constraints on the Midshipmen- Really? And if they are having problems with basic honesty under the stress levels they have now- will their ability to deal with stress, take the heat and do the honorable and honest thing even at their own expense get easier when they are leading their platoon and asked to put themselves and their soldiers in harms way? </p>
<p>My take after reading these articles is that I’ve reevaluated GoNavyXC’s posts and now find myself a great deal more sympathetic to his point of view- prior to these articles I suspected that this was typical first class belly aching about the administration and that there was a flip side that the Mids just didn’t understand. Now- I believe GoNavyXC is right to be seriously concerned about the state of things.</p>