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Folks often pigeonhole military members - and especially military academy or military college grads as being of a certain type and who wind up in certain career fields. The stereotype is that we are all serious, type A robots who are happiest when bossing folks around, slavishly following orders or deep into the guts of some engineering problems . It's not really true- some of the most creative folks out there have walked thru the various sally ports; arches etc (for example one of the most famous American Ballet dancers of the past Century -Edward Villella- is a 1957 NY Maritime (Ft Schuyler) graduate). This link is a very interesting little blurb in the quarterly USAA magazine about a nontypical post military career for one USNA alumnus (go to page 11- "Tailor Made".
https://content.usaa.com/mcontent/static_assets/Media/USAA_Mag_fall_2009.pdf?cacheid=2808329803
https://content.usaa.com/mcontent/static_assets/Media/USAA_Mag_fall_2009.pdf?cacheid=2808329803
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