Not until the late 80s-early 90s did something called “mission statements” become en vogue.
To me, this whole mission statement thingee is nothing more than insecure corporate/government-types using lots and lots of big words in order to make themselves appear to have a certain degree of smartitudinous. Of course, the target demographic is those who’re even dumber than the aforementioned corporate/government weenies.
Bottom line, mission statements are little more than the people who want to control every aspect of our lives giving the official double-thumbs-up to the dumbing down of America.
Case in point: The United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, NY, has (and continues to have) the Academy’s famed motto of “Duty, Honor, Country.”
However, the same simple, but direct, three words are being pulled from the USMA’s mission statement.
As noted on the official West Point website by the 61st Superintendent, Lt Gen Steve Gilland, a word salad that only Kamala Harris could love;
“We believe our mission binds the Academy to the Army – the Army in which our cadets will serve. As a result of this assessment, we recommended the following mission statement to our senior Army leadership:”
“To build, educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets to be commissioned leaders of character committed to the Army Values and ready for lifetime of service to the Army and Nation.”
I guess simply stating “Duty, Honor, Country” is asking too much.
“Midshipmen from the Naval Academy taunted their West Point cadet rivals at the Army-Navy Game in Philadelphia on Saturday with chants and signs mocking them over avowed communist 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone. Rapone is a 2016 West Point grad who posted photos of himself in uniform with messages promoting communism.”
“The signs which said, “Communism Won’t Win” and “NOT COMMUNIST” were posted to Twitter by Marine vet Julio Rosas who is a staffer with the Independent Journal Review and by an unaffiliated viewer.” (Free North Carolina: At Army-Navy Game, Cadets Taunted Over Communist West Point Grad)