Naval Academy inflated apps for rankings

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@katwkittens

And to be clear, the service academies are not free. They pay very dearly for them as do their families.</p>

<p>At noon time meals they roll on the screens in the cafeteria of all the recent fallen soldiers from their previous classes. It is a grim reality that they pay their “free education” with their lives.

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<p>Note that risk depends on the war situation and the service branch. For example, in 2003-2006 in Iraq, the Marines were the riskiest branch, followed by the Army. But the Navy and Air Force had death rates lower than that of overall US men age 20-34.</p>

<p>[“Mortality</a> of American Troops in Iraq” by Samuel H. Preston and Emily Buzzell](<a href=“http://repository.upenn.edu/psc_working_papers/1/]"Mortality”>http://repository.upenn.edu/psc_working_papers/1/)</p>