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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Friday sent a memo to West Point, nan U.S. Naval Academy and nan U.S. Air Force Academy, saying that each early admissions will beryllium based solely connected merit.
"The Department owes it to our nation, our Service Members, and our young Americans applying to nan MSAs to guarantee admissions to these prestigious institutions are based exclusively connected merit," Hegseth wrote successful a memo to nan academies.
He added that this would guarantee that only nan "most qualified candidates" would beryllium admitted.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Friday sent a memo to West Point, nan U.S. Naval Academy and nan U.S. Air Force Academy, saying that each early admissions will beryllium based solely connected merit. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"Selecting anyone but nan champion erodes lethality, our warfighting readiness, and undercuts nan civilization of excellence successful our Armed Forces," he wrote.
He said nan secretaries of nan subject departments would person 30 days to certify that location will beryllium nary information of race, ethnicity aliases activity successful applications and that they will beryllium based connected merit only.
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He said merit tin beryllium weighted by diversion talent, anterior subject service, capacity astatine an MSA preparatory school, aliases different akin experience.
West Point cadets saluting. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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"The Department must stay patient successful its pursuit of excellence and ne'er discuss nan precocious standards astatine our MSAs," he concluded. "A beardown serviceman corps is basal to ensuring nan United States subject remains nan astir lethal nan world has ever known."
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