and promoting people within the military not based on merit, but to pursue a more "inclusive" system to push political beliefs throughout the ranks? Would you consider that as using it as a political pawn? Also, since I doubt you read the WaPo article, here's the full one for you:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/west-point-alumni-group-cancels-award-ceremony-for-tom-hanks/ar-AA1M0Lyd
of note: "Bieger wrote that the alumni association, in coordination with the academy, “will not be holding the Thayer Award ceremony” as originally scheduled and apologized for the cancellation. The email did not say whether Hanks’s award has been revoked or if it will be presented in some other format."