These are not mere teenagers as these teenagers are our future soldiers and officers. A West Point cadet has more discipline, honor, and integrity than most teenagers of the same age.
Candidates for West Point are evaluated on academic performance, demonstrated leadership potential and physical fitness. All are required to be U.S. citizens and between 17 and 23 years old. West Point cadets must be unmarried, not pregnant and not under obligation to support any children.
This isn’t just “teenagers” playing with heavy equipment. A totally assinine thing to say about anyone who has volunteered to serve our country.
You are thinking of a long ago West Point. The newly evolved West Point has Black women activists protesting the school that educated them and Communist sympathizers graduating with honors. Douglas MacArthur would not recognize the school.