I can personally assure you the last Supt at USAFA was not a “perfumed prince”. A classmate and friend. My two sons represent recent grads. Both have buried classmates and friends and are fighting honorably for this Country. As the Academies exist they are last bastions that treasure the concept of honor. I would agree with you that they are under attack for doing so. There has been a lack of leadership before in the military, at high levels of the military. It has prevailed in no small measure due to a new crop of Academy grads that saw the folly of the immediate leadership. As far as the Air Force today the AF Chief of Staff, another USAFA ‘76er is one of the best leaders this Nation could have. I cannot say that about the Chairman of the JCS
And I hate to seem alarmist. But even those in recent groups of graduates will be weeded out at least over these next three years, identified as probable problems, their commissions unrenewed.
And as earlier, how can these institutions possibly violate their own Honor Codes but carry on as if nothing has changed?