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