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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it hard to believe most people don’t know this. Even if you were never interested yourself, you went to school with other people. And the kids who were accepted were high achieving student-athletes.  Every kid from my high school who went was one of the best students, a star athlete, and popular.  These are well rounded kids with an unusual amount of self-discipline for 17 year olds.  Whatever negative stereotypes you may have about the hundreds of thousands of diverse people with a wide range of jobs in the military, you can’t really pretend you’re unaware of the academies. [/quote]

Tell me you live in a bubble…

My only experience with academies was flipping past the army/navy game on tv, and it wasn’t until I was an adult that I learned these were college teams. There were no academies or military bases within hours of where I grew up. Military culture/reverence wasn’t a thing. Living in the DC metro gives you a very skewed perspective on the value of the military.[/quote]

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