What President Obama Won't See At West Point

ABC ^ | 12/1/2009 | Jake Tapper

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WEST POINT, NY -- President Obama will deliver his address on the new way forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan at the US Military Academy at West Point this evening. He's scheduled to arrive at the school at 7:15 pm ET, speak at 8 pm, and depart back for Washington, DC, at 9:15 pm.

In that short time, the president is unlikely to see the sub-standard provisions given the next generation of American fighting men and women that were allowed to degrade over the previous decade.

That's the judgment, at any rate, of the independent board charged with supervising West Point, the Board of Visitors, who wrote in a 2008 report that "64% of cadet barracks and academic facilities are below Army standards, and may fall below accreditation standards."