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ROTC definitely is easier to get out of in the first 2 years than the service academy. [/quote]

No, that's not true. You can walk away from a service academy any time in the first two years and have no commitment and no payback for those two years of college. Other colleges accept transfers from service academies with ease because they know how high the academic standards are there. 
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I'm talking about socially/emotionally how difficult it is to leave when it is all you're surrounded by. Going to a "regular" university with a good ROTC program will show the kid both sides of the coin. [/quote]

Pretty much true IMO. There are kids who walk way from the academies in the first 2 yrs, but if you walk away you will be starting all over again at another college. I'm not saying it can't be done. But you typically don't leave a service academy early and stay tight with that fraternity. Sure you may text/email and maybe even get together a time or two after leaving. But they go thru a LOT together and the bonds get tighter and tighter -- and if you weren't there for Ring Weekend or 100th Night or whatever good times are being recounted, you are just less a part of it. And then post graduation when they're deployed for a yr at a time -- there's even less time/energy for anyone besides family and closest buddies from the academies. So yeah -- it is hard to walk away in a way in which walking away from ROTC isn't the same. Bc in a major university ROTC, you have ROTC friends + regular university friends - it's not as "all or nothing."[/quote]

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