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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"My DC went last year and decided that it was more than they were willing to do for four years...

Navy grad "

Another Navy grad here. This is kind of surprising to me. I know the academies love to play up the "physical mission," and yeah, you do a lot of running around Plebe Summer. But after that, if you just want to play company intramurals (and you pick things like volleyball, street hockey, etc.), it's really not all that physical.

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I think you have to [u]enjoy[/u] physical activity, not necessarily be the starting varsity as a 4/c (or even as a 1/c).

But yes it does seem to have a lot more physical aspect to it now.  Pull-up bars in the Hall, far more emphasis on running and individual workouts (at what looks like all hours), higher standards on semester PE evals -- just talking to the current mids, it's physically more demanding than it was back then.  Maybe internally-imposed from each other (peer pressure) rather than by the administration, but they are all in better shape than we were.  Probably even more so if you think about the fact that many current HS students are NOT as fit as students were 20-30 years ago.[/quote]

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