Academy, ROTC, ERAU, or whatever....
**** washes off in T-38. After that nobody gives a damn where you came from...
FWIW...flown with former regional check airman and guys from Delta State, ERAU, and a lot of other places.... Learned something from just about every one I've flown with along the way.
Instead of calling flight team school dorks (we had the at Auburn too) I'm just glad we still have kids interested in getting off the video games and out to the local airport to practice. The suits and sunglasses? Okay...I might snicker. But keep the big picture...this nation needs to produce pilots, promote aerospace, and protect GA airports. These kids will do all of that...
(Yeah...I snickered. But I was probably a pretty big dork at times too. Somewhere along the way a real fighter pilot and later airline captain showed up. We were all dorks once...)