<p>To put things in perspective, one of the young men my son talks about and looks up to is not an upperclassmen; he’s a fellow Plebe. Prior service Marine, served in Iraq, wanted to attend the Naval Academy. The path he took to get there is something you may want to think about. From the Marines, he made his way to the Citadel, spent a year there, applied to the Academy again and was accepted into NAPS and finally this year became a member of 2011. Counting Marine basic, he will have experienced a “Plebe year” 4 times to get his commission. I’ve never met this young man but I really doubt he spent much time worrying about what part of the path he chose to pursue was unfair.</p>