Editing Frank Borman (section)

====Other military activities====
In June 1970, Borman retired from NASA and the U.S. Air Force as a colonel.<ref name="nmmuseum" /> He later cited family stress as a major reason for leaving the astronaut corps, in particular his wife's alcohol dependency.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 10, 2023 |title=Frank Borman, Apollo 8 commander who led first crew to orbit moon, dies at 95 |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/11/09/frank-borman-astronaut-eastern-dead/ |access-date=November 16, 2023}}</ref> For his services as an astronaut, the Air Force awarded him the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] and the [[Legion of Merit]].<ref name="valor" />

In August 1970, he undertook another special presidential mission, a worldwide tour to seek support for the release of American [[prisoners of war]] held by [[North Vietnam]].<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Department of State Bulletin |volume=63 |issue=1633 |date=October 12, 1970 |title=U.S. Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia |pages=405–408 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/dsbul63&div=1&src=home |url-access=subscription}}</ref> At the conclusion of his 25-day mission to 25 countries,<ref name="Borman Gives Grim Report" /> Borman briefed Nixon on September 1 at the [[La Casa Pacifica|Western White House]] in [[San Clemente, California]]. While the mission was not an abject failure, his fame failed to compensate for his lack of political experience and gravitas.{{sfn|Davis|2000|p=249}} On September 22, he appeared before an unusual joint meeting of Congress conducted at the request of the [[National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia]] in his capacity as presidential envoy. He noted that the POWs were being treated poorly, and urged Congress "not to forsake your countrymen who have given so much for you."<ref name="Borman Gives Grim Report">{{cite news |title=Borman Gives Grim Report on P.O.W.'s |first=John W. |last=Finney |newspaper=The New York Times  |date=September 23, 1970 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/borman-gives-grim-report-on-pows.html |access-date=September 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927125756/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/23/archives/borman-gives-grim-report-on-pows.html |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Borman performed one more assignment for the military. In 1976, there was a major cheating scandal at West Point. Faculty noticed remarkably similar answers to an examination paper for Electrical Engineering 304, a required course, that had been given to over 800 cadets to complete on their own. Cheating was a violation of the [[Cadet Honor Code]], and cheaters were subject to expulsion. Cadets were tried by 12-member honor boards of cadets that functioned as grand juries; but the system was prone to abuse, and those cleared on appeal to the five‐member appeal boards of officers that functioned as courts were often punished with "silence", a form of shunning.<ref>{{cite news |title=More Than 90 Cadets at West Point Face Charges of Cheating on a Test |first=James |last=Feron |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 8, 1976 |page=41  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/08/archives/more-than-90-cadets-at-west-point-face-charges-of-cheating-on-a.html |access-date=September 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927125754/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/08/archives/more-than-90-cadets-at-west-point-face-charges-of-cheating-on-a.html |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Borman was appointed to head a special commission to investigate and report to the [[United States Secretary of the Army|Secretary of the Army]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Report to the Secretary of the Army by the Special Commission on the United States Military Academy |first1=Frank |last1=Borman |first2=Harold K. |last2=Johnson |author-link2=Harold Keith Johnson |first3=A. Kenneth |last3=Pye |author-link3=A. Kenneth Pye |first4=Willis M. |last4=Tate |author-link4= Willis M. Tate |first5=John T. |last5=Walker |author-link5=John T. Walker (bishop) |first6=Howard S. |last6=Wilcox |publisher=West Point |url=http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1983/40768/docs/borman.html |date=December 15, 1976 |access-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226202843/http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1983/40768/docs/borman.html |archive-date=December 26, 2017}}</ref> Eventually, 92 cadets were readmitted, and graduated with the Class of 1978; more than 60 others declined the offer of amnesty, and chose to complete their education elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |title=West Point '78 Closing Book on Cheating '76 |first=James |last=Feron |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 5, 1978 |page=B1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/05/archives/west-point-78-closing-book-on-cheating-76-west-point-78-is-closing.html |access-date=September 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927125754/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/05/archives/west-point-78-closing-book-on-cheating-76-west-point-78-is-closing.html |archive-date=September 27, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Borman's son Frederick, of the West Point Class of 1974, was accused of taking a bribe. It was alleged that while a member of a cadet honor code board he had accepted a $1,200 payment to fix a case involving two cadets accused of cheating. Frederick was cleared of all charges after taking a [[polygraph]] test. Borman's younger son, Edwin, of the West Point Class of 1975, was also accused of improprieties, but there was no evidence to support the allegations, and they were dismissed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Son of Astronaut Cleared of Charge |first=Murray |last=Illson |date=November 17, 1976 |newspaper=The New York Times  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/17/archives/son-of-astronaut-cleared-of-charge-army-lifts-bribe-allegation.html |access-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515111323/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/17/archives/son-of-astronaut-cleared-of-charge-army-lifts-bribe-allegation.html |archive-date=May 15, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>