In June 2023, several hundred concerned West Point graduates established the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates.
The West Point Association of Graduates (WPAOG), by the nature of its very name, should be serving the graduates of the Long Gray Line. Founded in 1869, it has strayed from its original purpose and has morphed into an ATM machine that takes money from graduates and funds the West Point football and other sports teams and other academy foci. Increasingly, many graduates began to feel that unless they had 8 figure donations to offer, they were irrelevant and unimportant in the eyes of the WPAOG leadership.
On the heels of 78 years of losing wars, football scandals, drug rings, cheating escapades, and wokeness, West Point appears to be losing its way. Worse, concerned graduates frequently found themselves blocked from speaking out by AOG moderators in its various organizations.