<p>^^^^ excellent, excellent post, rjrzoom.</p>
<p>My son has three ‘priors’, all with combat service in either Iraq and/or Afghanistan, out of forty plebes in his company. I have had the honor and pleasure of meeting two of them together with their parents during PPW, and they are true leaders. </p>
<p>All three of these priors took a circuitous path to the Naval Academy which involved many ‘hoops’ to jump through - and they are not complaining.</p>