Trump signs order to allow military academy graduates to play pro sports

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to allow graduates of the U.S. military academies to play professional sports before fulfilling their two-year active-duty military requirement.

Trump’s memo to the secretary of defense reverses a Pentagon requirement that prevented sports stars at the U.S. Military Academy, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy from joining professional teams immediately after graduation and hurt recruiting of top athletes at the schools.

The new rules, which will also apply to members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), will allow the athletes to defer their military obligations until they have completed their professional sports careers.

“Cadets and midshipmen have a short window of time to take advantage of their athletic talents during which playing professional sports is realistically possible,” the executive order said.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military-sports/trump-signs-order-to-allow-military-academy-graduates-to-play-pro-sports-idUSKCN1TS00H

[JHB]

1. The only duty this man has ever known...

...is what he leaves in the bowl after one of his Twitter benders.

[rusty quoin]

2. He calls it the super bowl.

[Judi Lynn]

3. He has stuck his snout into every quarter of US life, he needs to butt out, for chrissakes.

Has to comment on every thing that moves, and insists everyone in the world will hear about it. Will he never shut the #### up?

He hasn't had anything remotely close to a good idea in his entire life.

It's easy to see why Germany didn't want his grandfather to come back.

[sop]

4. Trump's code: money before country

[Botany]

5. The obligation of a graduate of West Point, Annapolis, the USAFA, or the Coast Guard Academy is ...

... serve and protect America and not to play pro sports. America has enough Ohio State, Alabama,
and Clemson Universities that if you see yourself playing in the NFL or the NBA you can go
there and drop out after 1 or 2 years and go pro. This goes to show how really out of touch Trump
is with what is really important.

[rampartc]

6. and if the young pros are injured, as so many are

will they be physically able to report for duty?

the American people make a rather large investment in these students on the expectation that they will lead young americans in time of war.

[tanyev]

7. I can just hear his reasoning.

We've got to give our military academies a way to recruit really good players so the military teams can get more lucrative contracts. Look at all that money going to schools with the top teams! Sorry, I'm incapable of writing it in his incoherent style.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. So, our tax dollars pay for a very prestigious college diploma at a very good school

Our Tax dollars cover all expenses for the graduate. Our taxes cover their food, board, clothing, soap, sheets, books, laptops, medical, dental and tuition. And all we ask is that you pay us back by serving in the military.

But Trump the grifter had this fart and he called it an idea.

Now that our tax dollars paid for everything, they get to go off and play a useless sport and when they are 40, then they join the military? What good is 40 year old Ensign? What good is a 40 year old Second Lieutenant? At that age, most officers are nearing retirement. Academy grads are going to be the laughing stock of the services now. Hell the recruitment maximum age is 33. And when they are done with their silly little sport, they probobly have forgotten all their military training. Now, we get to train these old folks all over again.

And yet if you get a loan to get a degree on your own at some small town college, you can't even discharge the compounding interest loan in bankruptcy. We make those poor students who get loans to pay for every bit of what they borrow PLUS all the interest a bank can pile on. Even if you join the military after getting your degree, you have to pay back those loans. But Academy grads can now go play sports and duck their bills.

Go to a tax payer fully funded college and you get to go off and be sporty until you claim your career is over. But who the duck wants these old men and women at very junior ranks? I guess they could be made to work in some nondescript job, but then why give them such good educations? They are suppose to be military leaders.