Air Force Academy discovers racial slurs were hoax, months after superintendent lauded for

Full title..............Air Force Academy discovers racial slurs were hoax, months after superintendent lauded for tough speech....................

A racist message posted outside an Air Force Academy dorm in September was written by one of the alleged victims, the school confirmed Tuesday, casting blaring initial coverage of the incident -- which lauded the school superintendent's forceful reaction in an apparent bid to ding President Trump -- in a new light.

The student who wrote the slurs, which were discovered in September outside the rooms of five black students at an Air Force Academy dormitory in Colorado Springs, Colo., was no longer at the school, the Academy confirmed. A spokesman declined to say whether the student withdrew or was expelled, citing privacy laws. The student’s name was not released.

In a written statement Tuesday, the academy said: "We can confirm that one of the cadet candidates who was allegedly targeted by racist remarks written outside of their dorm room was actually responsible for the act. The individual admitted responsibility and this was validated by the investigation."

First time this week!! : )

And here's a joke for ya.....

A recent article in the San Francisco Examiner reported that Nancy Pelosi has sued Stanford Hospital, saying that "after her husband had surgery there, he lost all interest in sex".

A hospital spokesman replied: "Your husband was admitted for cataract surgery. All we did was correct his eyesight.”

“...I don’t know about the AF but in the Army the West Point prep school are usually enlisted soldiers. ...”

The precise status of USAFA cadets and Prep School “cadet candidates” inside the Air Force rank structure is less than clear, even to many participants. Officially, cadets and candidates are outside the larger body of USAF personnel and cadets possess command authority only over other cadets.

The Preparatory School itself is almost ten miles from the cadet area. Cadet candidates and cadets attend entirely separate academic classes and athletic training, and do not interact in any way.

The ostensible purpose of the Prep School is to sharpen the academic abilities of otherwise-promising candidates, to afford them a better chance of passing the entrance exams.

Members of the enlisted corps do enter the Prep School but there are other sources of candidates: some are of interest because of pre-existing athletic abilities, though “recruiting” for intercollegiate teams has always been officially denied to exist. Some percentage of cadet candidates has always entered the Prep School straight from civilian life.

“Remove that commandant. He is unfit. To jump to conclusions without waiting for the investigation shows he has no business there.”

castlegreyskull must be pretty thin on familiarity with official investigations of this sort inside DoD. Senior commanders are notoriously short when it comes to patience; if they feel strongly abut some issue, or see a chance to further their ambitions (whatever those might be) by casting themselves in a favorable public-affairs light, they will shoot their mouths off early. And often. Restraining them causes never-ending headaches for their staffs. Official inquires proceed at their own pace, which rarely satisfies anyone in this postmodern age.

LtGen Silveria is the Superintendent, not the Commandant. He is in charge over the entire USAFA facility and organization; the Commandant, the Dean, and the Director of Athletics report to him.

The position of Commandant exercises more authority over cadets than any other at USAFA, and the Commandant is more closely involved in the daily lives of cadets than any other senior officer assigned there.

As public statements like this go, I don’t find LtGen Silveria’s to be terribly unusual in the modern context, though my perspective is different and my information dated (I graduated from USAFA in the 1970s and retired from active duty in 2000). The job of Superintendent was long considered an uncontroversial pre-retirement assignment. But times have changed; people who ascend to star-wearing rank are not necessarily solid citizens nor talented leaders. After serving for 24-1/2 years on active duty, I’d say they’re more a negative than a positive. Ambition for its own sake tends to make an aspiring general officer guilty until proven innocent.

If the forum finds LtGen Silveria less than satisfactory, they are in for a shock. The Commandant of Cadets is Kristin Goodwin, the first openly gay female to be assigned to that job. She is espoused to another female (presumably gay) and they have a child. I’ve no idea what the precise genetic relationships are between the three of them.

LtGen Silveria and BGen Goodwin are both graduates of USAFA: he in 1985, she in 1993.

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