{"id":5801,"date":"2010-06-10T00:35:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T06:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2010-06-09T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T05:38:07","slug":"cheating-officer-everybody-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/cheating-officer-everybody-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Officer: Everybody Does It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0US Marine 2nd Lieutenant Adam Ballard has given his excuse for his lapse in integrity, in which he <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/marine-officers-kicked-out-over-cheating\/\">cheated on a land navigation test<\/a>:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2010\/06\/marine_cheating_060510w\/\">everybody&#8217;s doing it<\/a>, and it was the school&#8217;s fault:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ballard admits his actions were wrong but said they were facilitated by &#8220;inordinately lax procedures at [the basic officer school]&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over half of the three hundred Marines in our company possessed the same information that I had and that those numbers were comparable, if not more, in all the other training companies past and present&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/21\/army-battles-culture-of-cheating\/\">noted here often<\/a>, neither a &#8220;culture&#8221; that seems to encourage cheating, nor a tangible disadvantage for <em>not<\/em> cheating are excuses for making the &#8220;easier&#8221; wrong choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0US Marine 2nd Lieutenant Adam Ballard has given his excuse for his lapse in integrity, in which he cheated on a land navigation test:\u00a0 everybody&#8217;s doing it, and it was the school&#8217;s fault: Ballard admits his actions were wrong but said they were facilitated by &#8220;inordinately lax procedures at [the basic officer school]&#8230;&#8221; Over half of the three hundred Marines [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[601,102,86,149,2,5283,473],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-fighter-pilot","tag-adam-ballard","tag-cheat","tag-ethics","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-culture","tag-usna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}