Showing posts with label USNA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USNA. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Diversity Thursday

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Another DivThu that is somewhere between a Rorschach test and "it speaks for itself." Like so many of these "DEI" confer...
Thursday, September 01, 2022

Diversity Thursday

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This is one of those DivThu that could be a, in a word, tome. As such, I am only going to pull a small portion of the things I normally woul...
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Diversity Thursday

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Most who have had their kids enter college in the last couple of decades - especially the last decade - have seen the sociopolitical indoctr...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

What Happens When the SAPR Knob Goes to 11?

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Well ... I think over at the Severn School for Wayward Boys and Girls at the end of November, I think we found out. I'm not sure more co...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Diversity Thursday

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After a summer where more and more people’s eyes have been opened to the divisive, sectarian, and even racist nature of Critical Race Theory...
Thursday, October 07, 2021

Diversity Thursday

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If you think Critical Race Theory in high schools is of questionable utility, then you will love what has come to the United States Naval Ac...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Are Midshipmen Dying for Sport?

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Why are Naval Academy football players dying?  In the last seven years, three Midshipmen who played at least two years of football at the US...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Claude Berube: Teaching, Legacy, Mentorship, and Opening a New Chapter

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Known to all on and considered to be part of the Front Part is friend to the blog, Midrats , and me personally, is Dr. Claude Berube; reserv...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Diversity Thursday

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There are but a few options here, none of which speak well of our Navy or its leadership – but we have to look at where this is with clear e...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

Diversity Thursday

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Like most struggle sessions, no further commentary required - except if you can only take so much, go to the end for the explanation.
Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Just a Retired 2xFOS'd LCDR, eh?

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Perhaps this should have been a FbF ... but sometimes you have to wonder - what are the universal constants of our Navy culture? Who can...
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Measuring Grit

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Do you want to go to war with a Rhodes scholar on watch with you, or a rugby player? How do you measure what is hard to make in to a met...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Diversity Thursday

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Of course. It was only a matter of time. The below is ligit, it seems. Even as an unchurched Evangelical, I firmly believe tha...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Professor Fleming Returns to Annapolis

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Regular readers here are familiar with Professor Bruce Fleming from USNA. He's had a rough run of things the last couple of years, bu...
Sunday, May 06, 2018

STEM and the Education of a Navy Leader - on Midrats

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The majority of our officers come from two sources, NROTC and the United States Naval Academy. The Navy has a policy a bias towards STEM ...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Diversity Thursday

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Yes friends, we are well through the looking glass. When you combine the ability to order people to do anything that isn't legal in the ...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Service Academies Corruption by Football Lust is Almost Complete

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The old Department of Defense Pro Sports Policy reads: "Officers appointed from cadet or midshipman status will not be voluntaril...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

War of 1812 in the Chesapeake: A Schoolhouse at Sea - on Midrats

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Last month started what we hope will be a regular occurrence in the education of our future leaders; the US Naval Academy took 10 Midshipm...
Thursday, February 25, 2016

Diversity Thursday

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Nice article worth your time by our friend Professor Bruce Fleming at The Washington Free Beacon ; Trigger Warnings in Annapolis Review: Joa...