Wow...the next thing we'll see is Rush Limbaugh accusing someone else of being fat...

Thankfully I had a simple way to test this question out of our own experiences. The question I asked was: Do the Service academies follow federal law? Well I really can’t answer the question without having some specific data and facts. But it doesn’t look real good when you compare the federal Law as written in the federal code and then you read their regulations in the CFR.

Sorry if I have offended anyone other than the sorry subject of this rant however his BS has infested this site for years. Angin you argue like a child.

Awesome. I almost fell out of my chair.

Why don't you move to the socialist nation of your choice

Because I am busy being a moderately successful capitalist, a claim I doubt you will ever be able to make...

So, You can't find it. Yet, never one to allow mere fact to intrude, you stick to your claim.

Its cool bisty. We know you hear, and everyone knows you lack the 'nads just to admit you blew every call on the election, no matter how painfully obvious it is :)

You are something of a textbook case... egomaniac with low self-esteem.

How about "looks like I called it"? Squirm all you want, but you were utterly clueless about what was really going on in the last election.

So, You can't find it. Yet, never one to allow mere fact to intrude, you stick to your claim.

All that is noted.

Anyway, back to the issue:

Our current system works.

Exactly why 'change' is being proposed, in the end.

I think one would be hard-pressed to find institutions (you can certainly throw in the Coast Guard Academy and the legdendarily-tough Merchant Marine Academy) that are so good at turning out a high percentage of graduates who are smart, fit and show potential for leadership and management -- at the ripe age of 22 or 23.

ROTC? It's perfectly fine, as are the service OTS/OCSs for enlisted personnel. ROTC's advantage is the "out:" undergrads interested in a military career can try it out for awhile, with no commitment. Good thing, for kids who haven't made up their mind what they want to do.

Me, I went a different route: direct appointment. Lord knows what Ricks would think of that, if he's even heard of it.

Let's see if you can find a point where I say "I predict'....

How about "looks like I called it"? Squirm all you want, but you were utterly clueless about what was really going on in the last election.

You know it, I know it, and everyone that reads OTB knows it. Let's see, you said there would be a Democratic civil war in Denver, McCain was headed for a landslide, Obama could never win a general...

Given the time is takes reach say division level command, any effects of Rick's proposed change would take decades to produce change and even more decades to remedy.

Our current system works. When given a reasonable objective, and sufficient operation freedom, the American fighting men produces results. A free Iraq is just one example.

I will not that the only war we lost was lead by a corporate executive, McNamara, who knew more about graphs and metrics than about military leadership. I'll take Storming Norman any day.