usna1985
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If you are going to leave, make sure you are running towards something, not away from something.
A little OT, but this is also true of leaving the military. As is the advice, "Don't look back."
As for leaving the SAs, why do people always think that the person who got the TWE would have made it through the SA and would have stayed? In virtually all cases, the person who received the appointment thought USNA was the school he/she wanted. And then found out it wasn't. That can happen to anyone -- it's more likely to happen to someone who hasn't prepared and/or who had serious doubts about attending in the first place. But it happens to those who are 100% gung-ho on I-Day.
USNA would love to be able to admit the exact number of people it hoped to graduate and have each one of them stay for 4 yrs. It doesn't happen. As Mongo says, there will be attrition -- it's built into the system. An unfortunate reality.