West Point Needs a Reset
Guest post by Tony Lentini, West Point Graduate
When I attended West Point in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, cadets joked that we got a “$50,000 education, shoved up our a** a nickel at a time.” Times have sure changed. Today, the cost of an education at the nation’s service academies has risen to an estimated quarter of a million dollars per cadet or midshipman, all funded by our tax dollars.
In the past, such an investment was more than worthwhile; West Point has produced luminaries such as Presidents Grant and Eisenhower, World War II Generals MacArthur, Patton, Arnold, and Bradley, and scores of other accomplished military, political, and business leaders since its inception in 1802.
