One thing that happened recently on how the Army can influence policy or be corrupted by it depending on your point of view was this. The entire studio audience of the Glenn Beck Show was made up of the Corps of Cadets from West Point, along with their faculty advisers. Beck then gave a short history of how much the Army Corps of Engineers contributed to the Physical development of this country.

Now I think is was a very good idea for West Point to be part of something like that but they really,really need to chose a better TV show to do it on. But maybe that was the only offer they had,which is really sad