{"id":11532,"date":"2015-11-08T17:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2015-11-08T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:24:04","slug":"one-more-point-about-dr-carson-and-west-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11532","title":{"rendered":"One more point about Dr. Carson and West Point …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Internet didn’t exist in 1969 when Dr. Ben Carson reportedly had discussions with someone<\/em> about whether he should get a “scholarship” to enroll at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.<\/p>\n

As I have always understood it, enrollment at any of the service academies requires a nomination from the applicant’s congressman or woman, or a senator from the individual’s home state.<\/p>\n

The issue, then, has continued to swirl over whether Carson, a leading Republican presidential candidate, actually was offered a “scholarship” to West Point. He says a lot of things about it. Critics say he’s being — at minimum — disingenuous.<\/p>\n

I found a website that lays out how one does it now.<\/p>\n

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It still involves submitting an application and\u00a0a nomination from a member of the House of Representatives or a U.S. senator. The applicant also must score high enough on SAT and ACT tests to quality. Media outlets have reported that Carson never submitted an application to West Point.<\/p>\n

Dr. Carson was living in Detroit at the time. He was active in the junior ROTC program at Southwestern High School, achieving the highest ROTC cadet ranking possible.<\/p>\n

Did that get the attention of someone in Congress from the Detroit area, or from his home state of Michigan, to nominate young Ben for admission to West Point … and is there a record of it — anywhere?<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m just trying to do my small part to help clean up this mess.<\/p>\n

I’m out.<\/p>\n\n

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The Internet didn’t exist in 1969 when Dr. Ben Carson reportedly had discussions with someone about whether he should get a “scholarship” to enroll at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. As I have always understood it, enrollment at any of the service academies requires a nomination from the applicant’s congressman or woman, … Continue reading One more point about Dr. Carson and West Point …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14],"tags":[588,5587,5588,5224],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-rotc","tag-service-academy-appointments","tag-west-point"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11535,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11532\/revisions\/11535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}