You got to be kidding me. So you're saying lets have tens of thousands or more likely hundreds of thousands suffer so we can save the small number of kids at USAFAPS?
I support the idea and mission of the prep schools. I think they are needed to get some enlisted and minorities ready for USAFA. Don't care about the red shirts. I'm also not crazy about the sequester as it pertains to the military and agree that there are vastly more savings to be had in the entitlement programs. All that being said:
1. There is no way, politically, that one could currently sell making cuts in entitlements until savings have been wrung out of the system elsewhere, including DoD. Maybe someday, someone can say "We've cut all we can elsewhere, it's time to hit entitlements" but not yet.
2. It wouldn't surprise me that USAFAPS is on the block, but I expect more as a negotiating chit just like all the horrors we heard were coming last year as a way to try to dodge the sequester and get it lifted. I would think one expectation is that liberal democrats would be saying that "We cannot close USAFAPS" (or at least that's the expectation). "It's what provides a leg up for our enlisted and beloved minorities". Until the results of the sequester become too painful, no one will look for savings elsewhere.
Just my 2 cents. The system (in this case including USAFAPS) tends to survive. Well, ok, maybe not the healthcare system, but everything else.