>>> the first two years are free if you elect to not start your third year. At the beginning of your third year - at all the service academies - you have to sign a contract, which obligates you to active duty
As is so often the case in these gay threads, most people seem to be going off... uhhhh, half cocked.
Olddeckhand shows this is the decision time. My first question would be how many cadets drop out at this stage. Is this one young lady unique, or simply one of some number of people who change their mind.
If there are others, and I’m confident there are, I’d assume they have various reasons for not choosing to pursue graduation. Unsurprising a reporter would find and focus on the one who didn’t like the DADT policy, and unsurprising so many take the bait.
I honestly don't know. I was commissioned via the NROTC program and did not attend any of the service academies myself. I believe - although this is only anecdotal - that the dropout rate is less than 10%.