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Almost all the Coast Guard Academy cadets from a summer ocean-racing program are in trouble because they tossed back drinks and smoked pot, school officials said.
What put 29 cadets in hot water are accusations that cadets who are under 21 were drinking during a summer sailing program while the boat was in port, the Day of New London reports. The other three, who are seniors, are accused of not stopping the partying.
This comes after school officials kicked out nine sophomores in August who were accused of using or possessing cocaine or marijuana.
Because this is a military academy, the punishments sound much harsher than they would be at a non-military campus: loss of liberty -- which sounds pretty harsh -- demerits and extra work hours.
"I'll do everything in my legal means to make sure that these cadets, as future officers, are the right people to uphold the law," Capt. John Fitzgerald, commandant of cadets told The Day.
He called the incidents "disappointing but it's just a blip on radar. It's something we need to address, but we'll move on and continue to put out outstanding officers."
In an e-mail received after our original story ran, someone claiming to be a member of the team denied the fact that anyone smoked marijuana. He wrote, "The simple fact is that yes there was underage drinking. We have all been masted and awarded punishment to that nature."
The announcement comes as the school participates in National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week this week. Oops!
Almost all the Coast Guard Academy cadets from a summer ocean-racing program are in trouble because they tossed back drinks and smoked pot, school officials said.
Funny ... I didn't see the CGA in the top twenty of the party school rankings.
Why is the name of the thread condemning the media on this one? Because I have to say, the referenced "article" is not an article at all ... it's an opinion piece/blog posing as news article, opining on a real source (The Day's article). Better get used to it. Such "news" is now written by "citizen journalists" or kids straight out of school looking to get clicks and be seen as edgy and in-the-know who have no ethics training, news-gathering training, and could care less about putting out balanced articles.
Those who once thought that print and local television journalists were the enemy are about to find out that the enemy really is Big Brother -- your neighbor -- armed with a laptop, an opinion and a belief that if they think something, the world needs to know it, damn the facts....
So your focus is on whether or not the story is published by a legitimate news company instead of someone's neighbor, rather than the cadets who were doing this???
I was responding to militia, whom I believe, by his post and the title of this thread he created, was trying to make a point about the shoddily written article. I think the case itself is being debated on another thread ...
