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To: combjelly who wrote (899408)	11/6/2015 9:16:19 PM
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>> But there is just no way someone who is a ROTC cadet would not know these things That's just stupid. Any 17 year old kid is probably not going to differentiate between a "fully paid scholarship" at West Point and an "Appointment." They are essentially the same, and those persons are usually going to be talking to universities at the same time who are offering scholarships. I think your argument is absolutely absurd.

To: combjelly who wrote (899408)	11/7/2015 12:01:56 PM
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The spokesman for West Point appoint disagrees with you and agrees with me. "Politico also reported that West Point would have a record of whether he applied in 1969. But West Point spokeswoman Theresa Brinkerhoff told CNN there would be no records about Carson's interaction with the school unless he actually enrolled. Files on potential cadets from that time would have only been kept three years unless the person became a student, she said. "No matter what at this point, because the records were so many years ago, we wouldn't have anything on him," she said. While an official letter of admission would have come from the adjutant general of the Army, who was not Westmoreland, she said it was common for top military officials to recruit the best and brightest high school students. And she said she could imagine that the school's lack of tuition -- as a federally funded institution -- could have been communicated or interpreted as a scholarship. "I wouldn't find that odd, that a general would pursue a discussion to kind of talk to him and say, 'Do you know what West Point would offer you?' And if you're using general terminology to a 17-year-old, I could see how you would call them scholarships. We don't use that terminology, (but) I could see how that could occur," Brinkerhoff said.