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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a sibling who attended a service academy and did the exchange program to spend a semester at other academies. Overall, the academies are an intense experience that can mess up the most sane person. When I meet a ring knocker, I think two things: you're smart but odds are you have trauma that [b]probably clouds your thinking[/b].[/quote]

Or at least makes you bad at relationships. Not all, of course. [/quote]

That was my experience while dating an Academy grad. Many of the officers I met through him were the same. I briefly considered applying my Junior year but my grandfather, a high-ranking retired AF officer, suggested that academies were not very safe for women. This was almost 20 years ago and my boyfriend, a graduate of one, confirmed this later when we discussed his time in college. He said that he knew of two women who were assaulted by fellow classmates and that many classmates saw the women as targets. Easy access, little to no repercussions, and that it was seen as a way to weed the "non tough enough" women out. He was a great guy who was close friends with one of the women from his class who was assaulted (I met her) but he was serial cheater, so much so it led to him being reprimanded by command and then he left because of issues from multiple reprimands. [/quote]

Happy to tell you that a lot has changed in 20 years. [/quote]

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