The Playboy Forum

January, 1977

Rotten to the CorpsI am a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, class of 1973. Recent publicity has focused attention on some areas of our military academies that need changes, but it has only scratched the surface. One of the basic problems is that the administration at West Point runs the academy on the principle of repression. This spawns a desire by cadets to perfect their skill at breaking the rules. Due to the pettiness of the majority of regulations, cadets who violate them do so believi...