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Via The College Fix,

The United States Military Academy has removed the words “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement, a move approved by Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff Randy George.

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The previous mission statement read:

The new one reads:

Regarding the change, Newsmax.com reports West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland said the new statement (which took a year and a half to create) “binds the Academy to the Army.”

Gilland pointed out the academy’s mission statement has changed a total of nine times, with “Duty, Honor, Country” being added in 1998.

Nevertheless, he emphasized that “Duty, Honor, Country is foundational to the United States Military Academy’s culture and will always remain our motto […] it defines who we are as an institution and as graduates of West Point.”

1989 West Point grad Randy De Soto notes in The Western Journal that new cadets had to memorize the portion of General Douglas MacArthur’s 1962 speech (given at the school) which highlighted the three words:

News of the mission statement change wasn’t very well received on X: