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By the third letter the attitude and determination expressed by my daughter was like night and day versus the first. The Academy certainly knows what it is doing when it comes to training these kids. In her last letter she said that she was polishing her boots for the tenth time as she was...

Thanks for the reply. I fully realize the systems rationale of the Academies and the impressiveness of the end product. I am mainly here to try to pick up on other folks experiences especially when it comes to beneficial parental support versus counterproductive support. Nice to be part of a...

Hello! I am the proud but worried father of a class of 2015 plebe. So far the limited communications have been less than encouraging. My daughter has always been tops academically but was never an athlete. She left a good university after 2 years to pursue a military career. She worked...