<p>Transcript: Charlie Rose Interviews Erik Prince</p>
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<p>Charlie Rose: Let me move to you. You went to the Naval Academy for three years – I mean for –</p>
<p>Erik Prince: Three semesters.</p>
<p>Charlie Rose: Three semesters, a year-and-a-half, then decided to leave. For what reason?</p>
<p>Erik Prince: You know, I went to the Naval Academy out of high school. I really wanted to be a Navy pilot, and I liked the Navy, but the Academy didn’t agree with me so.</p>
<p>Charlie Rose: Why?</p>
<p>Erik Prince: There was – I’m fine with rules and regulations. SEAL teams have a lot of those, as well, but the academic had kind of a distillation of a lot of other, you know, plebe-type regulations, the squaring corners, having to chew your food three times after – if an upper classman asked you a question. There is a lot of other plebe-type rules and that just kind of chafed me, and I left, and I went to a civilian school with a plan to come back in the Navy through officer candidate school, and become a SEAL, and as it all turned out, and it worked.</p>