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...pair of infantry-bound cadets swig beer and shake off their doubts. What, after all, could be tougher than West Point, where failure to have your books arranged by descending height on your desk can earn you hours of forced marching in the rain? "That's how they get us fired up for Iraq," says one. "After four years here, anything's better." Another suspects that for all the training, they still don't know what they are in for. "West Point is an academic institution, not a training ground," he says. "I think a lot of us are going...
...Cadet Pae's parents had a special respect for the U.S. military, the kind that is unique to liberated people. During the Korean War, American G.I.s gave Pae's father Hyongchol Pae their rations when he was a starving refugee from bombed-out Seoul. They eventually taught him English on a Korean air base and helped him immigrate to the U.S., where he could thrive as an artist, raise a family. From his vantage point in history, the artist Pae had quietly drawn the connections between the U.S. military and freedom...
...thriving black market in war knowledge exists for the cadets in e-mails from the front lines. When a member of the class of '05, Mark Erwin, led a platoon of new cadets at Beast Barracks last summer, he took a break from the drilling, cleaning and weapons assembly to tell his charges stories about what his brother Lieutenant Mike Erwin, West Point '02, was learning in Iraq. When Mark invited the new cadets to write Mike a letter, 35 of the 39 did just that. "If you ever doubt that you took the right path in life," Mike wrote...
...ready to change with it. Pae has noticed a shift in tone, through the tips on which books to save for reuse in officer basic training and in the half-hearted jokes about Iraq's being better than West Point. His friend seems less like the goofy cadet Pae remembers and more like a sober officer steeling himself for the times ahead...
...flattered to be quoted in your report on West Point, but I did not say that "it costs taxpayers $226,190 a year to train and educate each cadet." That figure applies to the cost per graduate, which by any standard makes the cadets very expensive students. Benjamin F. Schemmer, Editor Armed Forces Journal Washington...