Travis Ekbom  💣

This is actually a courageous and bold admission. There are MANY that need to do the same in this topic. Some just deleted tweets and then doubled down on their incorrect assumptions as if the cadets were “stupid”.https://twitter.com/JamesAGagliano/status/1208091768849387520 …

Appreciate that, Chris.

But...they *were* stupid.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1208134026235654144 …

There but for the grace of God go I, Tom. Good Lord, if had been cellphone cameras & social media in the mid-‘80’s, I’d have been drummed out of West Point. Stupidity? Yep. Fits under “general jackassery” line; they’ll be punished. One of them will become a General Officer.

That's all I said. Four options, from worst to best, all united by the common theme of "stupidity on national television."

I just should have known better than to caveat a tweet *indictment* with “If this is true.” I know better. Should have waited for dust to settle, as I typically do. It was a self-own.

Meh. I think the usual suspects geared up into high dudgeon. The fact that there were senior people in the DoD and the Academy who thought it was a worth a look says something in itself. They didn't do that because of Twitter, they did it because cadets were being dumb on TV.