Yeah, I remember the stink over the LCWB annotation the senior class gave itself that year.
I worked with another captain in 1985 who was in that first class. I served with a lot of academy grads over my career, some good, some not so much, but she definitely had that sense of entitlement and almost arrogance without the knowledge to go along with it. She also expressed some disdain that I was prior enlisted training her. I had previously been a Marine NCO and she found out the true meaning of attitude adjustment.
I have no doubt! My father was a CMSgt in the Air Force and, just for the record, I didn’t graduate from the Academy. I resigned near the end of my second year after realizing that the career-minded cadets in my class, those who wanted to fly and fight and weren’t just interested in a free education or sports, were gone. I enlisted in the Army about a year later and went to OCS as an E-7. Needless to say, I got a lot of “special” attention at OCS.
Thanks for your service and a shout out to all vets!