On Feb. 27 Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon’s secretary of war, announced that the Pentagon is now banning military members from using pentagon funding to attend ivy league and other universities.
This ban means that military members will not be able to use funds provided by the Pentagon to attend these elite universities in the 2026 – 2027 school year and forward. Peyton Prihoda, who is going into the marines, states his opinion on the matter.
“My opinion on the pentagon cutting these elite universities? The marines and all the military that want to go to Ivy League schools; the military should pay for that. But if they’re not, then they’re cutting away one of the aspects that we have, one of the guarantees that we were supposed to have. If they’re cutting that it takes away one of the things that we were fighting for,” said Prihoda.
The majority of these schools are the top universities in the United States, such as Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Brown, Yale, Columbia, and many others. These universities in particular were targeted due to their curriculum “promoting wokeness and weakness” according to Hegseth.
“They’ve taken our best and brightest, the men and women who pledged their lives to this nation, and subjected them to a curriculum of contempt. They’ve replaced the study of victory and pragmatic realism with the promotion of wokeness and weakness,” said Hegseth.
The current military members who are attending these universities will be allowed to complete their courses, however no new courses will be funded by the Pentagon in the upcoming school year. Prihoda shares his thoughts on the banning of the use of federal funds.
“Im pretty sure this will affect all military very greatly because they’re trying to get education, but if no one’s paying for it then it gonna cost a lot of money; out of their pocket. And, to be honest, it’s too much without help from other people,” Prihoda said.
The Pentagon’s decision to ban military members from attending these universities will certainly affect the education for our military. Many high ranking members of the U.S military attended these schools and this decision will have a large impact on future military personnel.
