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Post by Sons of Vaval on Mar 14, 2024 10:20:39 GMT -5
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Post by Tom on Mar 14, 2024 10:43:46 GMT -5
Is there an old mission statement that includes the words "duty, honor, and country"?
If there is, it seems silly to me to remove those three words and replace them with "army values"
If there never was a mission statement (do they really need one?) and this is an answer to a minority report that thought the words should have been included, then not a big deal to me
On a minor tangent, duty, honor, and country seem like laudable values not only for the cadets but for society in general
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Post by alum on Mar 14, 2024 12:29:08 GMT -5
Is there an old mission statement that includes the words "duty, honor, and country"? If there is, it seems silly to me to remove those three words and replace them with "army values" If there never was a mission statement (do they really need one?) and this is an answer to a minority report that thought the words should have been included, then not a big deal to meOn a minor tangent, duty, honor, and country seem like laudable values not only for the cadets but for society in general Here is the document which is hard to read on the WP web site. To the Long Gray Line and all USMA Supporters:
Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy's culture and will always remain our motto. It defines who we are as an institution and as graduates of West Point. These three hallowed words are the hallmark of the cadet experience and bind the Long Gray Line together across our great history.
Our responsibility to produce leaders to fight and win our nation's wars requires us to assess ourselves regularly. Thus, over the past year and a half, working with leaders from across West Point and external stakeholders, we reviewed our vision, mission, and strategy to serve this purpose. We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army - the Army in which our cadets will serve. As a result of this assessment, we recommended the following mission statement to our senior Army leadership:
To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for a lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.
Both the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff approved this recommendation.
Our updated mission statement focuses on the mission essential tasks of Build, Educate, Train, and Inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character, with the explicit purpose of being committed to the Army Values and Ready for a lifetime of service. The Army Values include Duty and Honor, and Country is reflected in Loyalty, bearing true faith and allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, the Army, your unit, and other Soldiers. In the past century, West Point's mission has changed nine times. Many graduates will recall the mission statement they learned as new cadets did not include the motto, as Duty, Honor, Country was first added to the mission statement in 1998.
Our absolute focus on developing leaders of character ready to lead our Army's Soldiers on increasingly lethal battlefields remains unchanged.
Go Army!
Duty Honor Country!Here is a link to "Army Values." www.army.mil/values/Tom--To your question about an old mission statement, the posted document said that there have been nine in a century and that Duty, Honor, Country has only appeared in it for 25 years. This would seem to be a bit of a tempest and is certainly much ado about nothing. Measure for measure, I don't think anything has really changed here, but you can certainly take it as you like it. |
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Post by HC92 on Mar 14, 2024 20:10:25 GMT -5
Our tax dollars at work!
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Post by longsuffering on Mar 14, 2024 21:45:39 GMT -5
I only recall hearing the Holy Cross motto "Men and Women for others" in recent decades. These things change over time.
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Post by hcpride on Mar 15, 2024 7:31:59 GMT -5
Duty, Honor, Country remains the motto. It would be a rare West Point grad who can’t recite portions of MacArthur’s speech that references those three hallowed words. Beyond that, mission statements come and go (tinkering with mission statements is practically a hobby with some folks). |
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