G-Lock

Derailed on the zoo-bashing: I've read parts of this forum for a long time, this one gets me though. Out of curiosity, what breeds such a hatred of a place that has little more effect on you than the tax dollars you've sprinkled on the budgetary mess of defense spending (assuming "we all have douche-bags/are the same" is true)? If the academies lived up to their original steed, put 10% focus on NCAA athletics, and graduated more subjectively / objectively qualified individuals (examples:Phase XX UFT complete/Tech School complete, SERE/Water Survival complete, PME complete) for the money spent, would you be happy? Or would non-grads cry foul due to preferential ring-knocker treatment? Is the whole concept a wash? The Academy does a LOT of things wrong, but then so does the AF as a whole. That whole article was disappointing, I'd say more-so on the part of the big AF than USAFA itself for those reasons being discussed above. I'm guessing ROTC detachments all have their individual problems as well, but not on the same scale. While I said IHTFP countless times and had countless miserable hours there, I wouldn't change the fact I was there. A lot of good things that happen at the zoo, too.