I think you are the only person who reads the board here that didn't get the drift that you started talking service academies when the topic was military academies. I know you are enamored of them since your Dear Leader went to one, it probably is what led him to believe he was smarter and a better planner than the generals who DID go the service academies. Trump went to one went because his parents sent him there because they thought he was a cull and didn't want him around. Many kids went to them, sometimes as a second chance situation to learn discipline, but I think most were just kids on their way to adulthood, and on occasion, to a military future.