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Old 01-04-2014 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman49
Shouldn't some of these issues showed up prior to going the academy, like in the interview and background process.

No screening process is perfect. But that's ONE of the reasons the academy environment is something of a pressure cooker...it provides bad apples another four years in which to deselect themselves. I don't view academy attrition for honor and misbehavior as a bad thing, it's mostly the system doing what it's supposed to do. I'd much rather it happen there than in the active-duty officer corps.
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