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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo they're going to QUARANTINE those poor cadets for two weeks before his speech?
This is crazy. Its bull goose looney. Its strawberry ice cream little metal balls nuts. It should be stopped!
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Journeyman
(15,026 posts)before they're deemed fit for duty assignment.
2naSalit
(86,336 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,803 posts)My college is on a total shutdown, almost no one is even allowed on campus, just looked it up yesterday. And I have two cousins who were graduates of West Point. They are not Trump supporters.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)My brother is an Air Force Acadamy Graduate and over the years has become much less conservative. He can't stand Trump. He's not exactly liberal, but he knows what is going on and doesn't like it one bit. He just retired from the AF as a Colonel and his views are much different now then they were when his entered the Academy.
Rhiannon12866
(204,803 posts)Though he's both young and old enough not to have been called for active duty. His Dad, also career Army, served in Vietnam, I'm related on his mother's side. And we have had political discussions, he liked to say he was "middle of the road," LOL. But he married a girl who is pretty liberal, so there's that, and he actually got me in touch with his late father-in-law, he knew I'd like him. This guy was incorrigible, liked to send scathing/yet humorous letters to people like John Ashcroft! So my "middle-of-the-road" cousin didn't stand a chance...
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Everybody's first posting is screwed up and nobody can transfer stations as it is. Now add this? What an absolute fiasco.
BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)ALBliberal
(2,334 posts)Falls ill.
This is his feeble useless way to attempt to upstage Cuomo imo. For one day he will steal the news cycle. Pitiful.
Silver Gaia
(4,541 posts)This is something a fricking dictator does, not the President of the United States. This stinks to high heaven!
progree
(10,894 posts)JI7
(89,241 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)even if it kills somebody.
no_hypocrisy
(46,038 posts)to expose yourself to a virus that may kill you?
Squinch
(50,919 posts)TomSlick
(11,092 posts)Service academy cadets/midshipmen are subject to the UCMJ.
progree
(10,894 posts)Cadets will return to campus in small, staggered groups. Theyll be paced in hard structures in the summer training area and wait there for tests results to come back, which should be the same day the swab is taken.
If they come back clean, theyll come on campus to their dorm room, and were calling it a soft quarantine, said West Point spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt.
They wont be moving in big groups and having formations, he added, saying that its still yet to be determined what that soft quarantine will entail because of constant updates to Center for Disease Control and Army guidance.
... The New York Times reported Friday that the presidents announcement at a news conference that he was still attending the graduation caught West Point officials off-guard, though the Times noted that planning had already been underway even if it had not been announced. Cadets have also always known that returning to West Point would have to happen in some manner, said Ophardt.
They were always told along the way that theyd have to come back, get their stuff, commission and go off to training," Ophardt added. "So they always knew they were coming back.
The Naval Academy will have a digital graduation ... are the new ensigns all going back to Annapolis to "get their stuff"?
nolabear
(41,936 posts)Thats so military, and yet not. Give it a name before you do it thatll make it sound better. But this isnt an exercise. Its just plain bs. They can get their stuff without gathering for a rally.
dickthegrouch
(3,169 posts)The middle digits pointed in trumps direction, sounds good to me.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,966 posts)Watch, (no don't watch but read), his speech will include a few lofty quotes for Fox to repeat and a bunch of campaign rally slogans tinged with xenophobia for RW bloggers to repeat.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)That makes sense.
MrsMatt
(1,660 posts)The cafeteria and janitorial staff? Will they get tested too, and have to quarantine?
nolabear
(41,936 posts)Gothmog
(144,945 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)Last edited Sun Apr 26, 2020, 08:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Like 57 or 58 miles, with a lot of empty land in between.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)lame54
(35,268 posts)Even going out to a Trump speech sounds good
tblue37
(65,227 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain,
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you?
Don't you?