Word: coded
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...honor code that has become so important to West Point -and the U.S. Army-began under Colonel Sylvanus Thayer, superintendent from 1817 to 1833. A Dartmouth man with a backbone of iron, Thayer changed West Point from a humdrum school for the sons of wealthy families into a first-class engineering institution. After studying European military systems, he also imposed on the cadets a kind of Prussian discipline that lingers today. Thayer had strict rules against lying and stealing, and what was called "irregular or immoral practices...
Shortly before the turn of the century, cadets set up their own vigilance committee and conducted covert "trials" of those who breached the code. When he was superintendent in 1922, Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur created the honor system, with an official board of review composed of cadets...
...first major scandal at West Point occurred in 1951, when 90 cadets were forced out for cribbing on examinations, including 37 members of the football team. In 1966, 42 cadets departed after having been accused of cheating. Four years later, West Point's honor code was amended to include the phrase forbidding any cadet to tolerate wrongdoing by another. In 1973, 21 cadets were sacked for cheating or condoning cheating...
...introduced. Admits Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., commandant of cadets: "It's not natural for an 18-year-old to tell on his friends. It's something that has to be instilled." Accordingly, cadets get 25 hours of formal instruction in the intricacies of the honor code...
...prime reason for having an honor code, instructors frequently note that one combat officer must always be able to rely on the word of another. To illustrate this point, the cadets are often told a story-perhaps apocryphal-of a company commander who radioed one of his platoon leaders to move his unit out of a particular area. The platoon leader, deciding that his men were too tired to stir, later radioed back that the maneuver had been completed-but he actually let his troops stay in place. Relying on this false statement, the company commander ordered an artillery unit...