Updated Dec. 5, 2:25 p.m. ET: Cadet
Blake Page has learned from his superiors at West Point that he will be
given an honorable discharge and not be required to pay "recoupment"
costs for three and a half years at the military academy. He told NBC
News that when out-processing is finished, he will move to Minnesota and
"continue the work I've started in whatever way I can."
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West Point cadet publicly announced his decision to quit the
prestigious military academy just months before graduating to protest
what he sees as the illegal infusion of military procedures and events
with fundamentalist Christian proselytizing.
To call attention to his move, senior Blake Page wrote a scathing commentary on West Point, published Monday in the Huffington Post.
"Countless officers here and throughout the military are guilty of
blatantly violating the oaths they swore to defend the Constitution,"
wrote Page, who was slated to graduate in May. "These men and women are
criminals, complicit in light of day defiance of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice through unconstitutional proselytism, discrimination
against the non-religious and establishing formal policies to reward,
encourage and even at times require sectarian religious participation."
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