In message , Ed Rasimus
writes
I LIVE in Colorado Springs,
about three miles from the Academy main gate. I frequent the Academy
for retiree services. I'm astounded by how seldom I see cadets in
uniform off the facility. With nearly 4000 cadets in training, it
would seem reasonable to see a lot more.

When I was looking for lunch in Annapolis, you couldn't swing a cat
without hitting a USNA student, or so it seemed. (I might add that they
presented as a well-behaved bunch, only made conspicuous by the uniform,
rank tabs and name badges - certainly better behaved than I and my
cohorts were as students).

They probably
have earned an advanced degree and they undoubtedly have supervised
more people, larger budgets, bigger projects with more responsibility
than their civilian counterparts.

Well, not always - they get to *use* the kit, but someone had to design
and build it for them

The ones who are getting the bad press, are the ones who will be
weededd out. They are in the decidedly small minority.

Too true.

--
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk