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    Somehow this seems to be flying under the radar

    Military personnel levels have been very cyclical for decades, what else is new.
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    USAFA Grad Crowned Miss America

    NOT a pilot, scheduled to attend UPT after grad school. Really shaking my head at some of the news stories calling her a "fighter pilot" when she hasn't even attended flight training and won't even know what aircraft she will fly until near the end of UPT.
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    The Defense Secretary's Curious New Year's Hospital Stay

    Reports say he has prostate cancer. But hey this is all nothing new for this dumpster fire of an administration.
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    Good news hopefully

    a slick American lawyer could probably get him off on the negligent homicide charge but it wouldn't protect him from being hit with a civil suit
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    Eyesight question.

    You are misreading; only need to be correctable to 20/20 for certain specialties like aviation and special operations, the basic standard is vision no worse than 20/200 correctable to at least 20/40.
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    ADHD and Service Academies

    You are a little confused; all cadets at VMI and The Citadel are required to take ROTC and those two schools commission more officers than any civilian ROTC program. If ROTC is a 'commissioning program' and all the cadets at a school are required to take it why would you not consider that...
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    Coast Guard Academy supports transitioning (male to female) cadet

    Careful about calling trans people 'mentally ill', you will get banned for "offensive speech".
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    Junior Military Colleges to Academy for College Students

    Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania has a Junior College program and they also have an agreement with USMA to give favorable treatment to applicants but it is still competitive and requires a high GPA and SAT. If high school was a struggle the service academies may not be for you so...
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    2024 Rhodes Scholars

    SAs get Rhodes winners more out of habit and to keep up their image, note too how the majority of civilian winners come from liberal colleges that also need to maintain their image as 'top flight'; and also because the committee that makes the decisions is full of liberal academics.
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    NORAD Closes Their "Tavern"

    You assume that Tailhook was a learning experience but hey you can't fix stupid.
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    Marine Dies in Training Incident

    Doubly tragic since another rollover incident in 2019 killed a young officer I knew; his parents have lobbied congress for reforms and a new pilot safety program was started but it obviously hasn't been effective.
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    Service buyback at USCGA

    Remember that the Coast Guard is not part of DOD but rather Homeland Security so the rules are different from the other service academies.
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    VMI vs USMA?

    The Citadel is the only other state military college and also considered an equivalent of USMA; its larger than VMI and has more academic programs but both are excellent schools that commission officers into all six military services. The big problem with USMA is the competition for getting in...
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    Medical Discharge from USNA

    as of 1981 to be eligible for veteran benefits you must have actively served at least 24 months.
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    Help! My parents don't want me to be a pilot after graduation. How do I convince them otherwise?

    are your parents planning to come to job interviews with you?
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    Citadel Scholarship Program 23-24

    For The Citadel Scholars Program you have to come to campus and be interviewed then a panel makes the awards. All applications are screened and for those meeting a certain threshold of GPA and SAT the school will try to find you some type of scholarship but many of them are restricted to...
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    No Agenda Here/Something Struck Me/What Do You Think of this VMI Ad?

    be sure to contact their public affairs people and register your complaint, good luck
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    US soldier who crossed into North Korea 2 months ago is in American hands

    Goody, now he can go from a North Korean prison to an American one - Leavenworth.
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    Hard to find hotel rooms for Army Navy game

    I would make a comment about the liberal government in Mass. but it would probably be deemed a "rules violation", despite the fact there are no rules.
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    Packing for 1st assignment on a boat

    Its a 'warship' or 'vessel', not a 'boat'.
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