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Former featured articleUnited States Military Academy is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.
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January 9, 2009Peer reviewReviewed
February 10, 2009Featured article candidatePromoted
May 14, 2022Featured article reviewDemoted
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on July 4, 2004, March 16, 2013, March 16, 2016, and March 16, 2020.
Current status: Former featured article

Photograph

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The first photo is lame. Get a better one. First of all of the 3 POLITICIANS pictured, only one "served" in the Army (arguably - Hobson served in the National Guard, I can't speculate whether is was to avoid the Draft or not...) They are totally irrelevant and yet are the main focus of the picture. Of the actual military, only the Commandant is named - none of the cadets are identified - neither by rank nor name.Surely, there are plenty of public domain photographs that better depict the undergraduates at West Point. (Hint: it's not just some posers in Dress Uniform).40.142.183.146 (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hobson served in the Ohio Air National Guard from 1958 to 1963. This would have been before it was fashionable to avoid the draft. As for National Guard slots, someone must fill those positions because the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of each state is a significant part of the reserve component of the Army and the Air Force. The picture in question serves to exhibit the uniforms of the senior leadership of the Corps of Cadets. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. The Congress members are all serving on the Armed Services Committee. No one is a "poser" in the picture.Cuprum17 (talk) 21:15, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Commissions

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"As all cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation". This is presumably true only of cadets who are US citizens, and not of the foreigners who attend. If that is, right, this sentence should be qualified.Bill (talk) 23:02, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Business leaders

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The grammar on the business leaders section is WILD --— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4B81:15B0:E1B2:BDDC:73EC:D511 (talk) 04:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Poe did not graduate

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Poe did not graduate. Does this still make him an alum and should he be listed in the intro? MisawaSakura (talk) 02:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A graduate or a former student of a school is considered an alumnus by most definitions listed in dictionaries. Poe is an alumnus by definition. Cuprum17 (talk) 11:33, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]