The West Point/Pete Hegseth kerfuffle broke into our media feeds first last December. The possibilities of Hegseth being chosen as our next secretary of defense were high at the time and were getting worse by the day. It was obvious that neither the military nor the press wanted him in that capacity. The protagonist murdering was a device that could not stop. Therefore West Point half entered the fray, denying Hegseth had been accepted it. Hegseth was a prominent people number who frequently told the story of his life, including that despite being accepted into West Point, he later chose Princeton as a result.
You may assume that this information may be confirmed quickly. However, apparently an elite military class got it wrong: communications staff denied Hegseth’s acceptance it, including a second time when a reporter inquired again and asked if he had been accepted. After being confronted with Hegseth’s information, West Point reversed course and posted his approval letter on X, the school changed its program.  ,
West Point either displayed complacency and dishonesty or made a deliberate lie to derail Hegseth’s candidacy. We as human patriots regard organizations like West Point very highly. Honesty and accountability are what we seek. However, its team appeared to be willing to alter a man’s course of life right away after being discovered. It was startling to me how reckless West Point was regarding the future of another man.
I learned about West Point Cadet Isaiah Hurst simply as I was forgetting everything about Hegseth’s impact at West Point. He ought to receive his diploma in May. Instead, he was struck with a$ 200, 000 costs and forced to leave the military. I kept thinking that this couldn’t possibly occur as much as I learned and read the documents pertaining to his situation. West Point would never be able to do that to a student. I was incorrect.
Defense Families
Hurst was born into a martial community. His father, who was on active duty for 22 years with three trips of Vietnam, is a Purple Heart receiver. His father, who served nine years in the Air Force and made one implementation to Iraq, retired. His brother, who is already serving at West Point, is also a student. His fiance, who will marry this summers, is also a graduate of West Point. She has already completed the standard official leadership training, which she took before becoming a member of the military authorities. The chances of two boys enrolling at West Point are thin. Hurst is the product of the happy defense household that made up this one. He enlisted in 2019, graduated from flying college in 2020, and was afterwards appointed to West Point’s class of 2025. He later became a 68W fight medic.
I have spent more than 25 times with the families of Cadet Hurst. My wife and his mother both attended school together, and for a while we all resided in the same position before their move to another city in 2009. They are still friends today. That is how I first became aware of the circumstances surrounding Cadet Hurst at West Point. Even though I haven’t seen him since he was a young child, it became impossible for me to do anything when I learned about his condition.
The allegation
Hurst is accused of lying about an indoor obstacle course test ( IOCT), but West Point fought back, saying he wasn’t taking it or that he had falsified his time. The test is administered by personnel in a school on campus.
How did this occur? Before they can initiate, cadets side the Department of Physical Education team their scores at the starting range. The recruits are going in groups, and the rushed launch times are recorded on the cards. The trainees are subsequently proctored, read the occasions on the checklist, leave the notes for confirmation, and file them away. At the end, the students are given yellow sticky notes with their closing times printed on them. In the event that their papers disappears, which I’ve heard happens frequently, candessets advise each other to get a picture of themselves with their yellow sticky word to show they took the test.  ,
The defense wants to release these prone to errors and paper-based techniques.
The Proof
Hurst has a photograph that is both written and period stamped. Seven cadets sworn to witness Hurst in the IOCT school that morning. Three recruits claimed in sworn claims that they witnessed Hurst completing certain portions of the obstacle course.
In contrast to Hegseth, West Point doubled down and claimed that Hurst cheated the test apparently ( without any plausible explanation of how ).
Hurst, the professor in charge of the IOCT that evening, wrote in an email to inform her that they had never lost any of the paperwork on her watch. From that point on, it seems as though West Point was more concerned with the narrative that the administrative procedure wasn’t shoddy with his paperwork than the truth.
Hurst was subjected to pressure throughout the procedure to say he had lied in exchange for apologie, but he instead caved.
It is difficult to believe that a student would abandon their whole military profession in the face of this brief physical fitness test. Although it is a undergraduate requirement, recruits who fail are allowed to take the test once more. West Point has chosen to use lying as the justification for his ejection. Hurst has not yet been brought before an respect table, but it is still a chance, according to the testimony who testified.
The director, Lieut., later decided Hurst had lied. There were several abuse options available to Gen. Steven W. Gilland, including:
- Put him in the army mentoring program, which allows cadets to temporarily join joined ranks before reapplying to West Point.
- To pay for the recoupment bill, split the student from West Point and enlist him in joined ranks.
- Separate the student while the student will receive compensation.
He added a$ 200, 000 recoupment costs to the list of the roughest penalties. That illustration illustrates how subjective the procedure is. The price to the government of having that student at West Point should be included in the number. It sounds to round, in my opinion.
West Point was unable to complete the documents properly even when discharging him. They claimed he arrived at West Point as a human, but he was enlisted. At least this time, they acknowledged the problem, and Hurst is awaiting corrections to the document.
Sloppy doesn’t begin to describe West Point, in my opinion. This student wasted three years of his life, was railroaded, and was forced to pay$ 200, 000 for the privilege of being railroaded by state employees who administered sloppy and lazy justice, due to their clumsy papers.
Hurst is awaiting the Army’s approval to officially complete the paperwork and publicly declare his discharge from the defense.
A student does not lie, steal, steal, or accept those who do, according to the West Point Honor Code.
West Point had to come clean about their mistake after Hegseth’s image. In Cadet Hurst’s image, they were double-down.
For more than 25 times, Aaron DeCorte has been in the sales and marketing industry. His wife works for their neighborhood police department as a 9-1-1 controller.
