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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1391340" data-attributes="member: 14403">Good luck at the Academy!  Your first year is pretty much spoken for but after that you should be good to go.I hate to spring some bad news on you but your selection of role-playing partners is going to be EXTREMELY limited during deployments and possibly at home (as far as other military members goes).  The military has a policy against fraternization, basically once you are an officer you are not supposed to mix it up socially with enlisted who in my experience made up the bulk of the roleplaying crowd in the military.  As an officer you are expected to keep that separation of rank in place and they also want to make sure there are no accusations of favoritism.  I was an enlisted NCO in the Air Force before I recently separated and I had two of my troops that wanted to play in my game.  I made sure to let the entire workcenter know that it was open to anyone but even then I made sure I was a little more critical of their work so that nobody thought they were getting by just by being in my D&D group.  We had one officer from a different squadron join up and he'd go so far as to walk over so none of the other officers would see his car outside my house which was in base housing.  I can't imagine not role-playing during deployments.  When I went to Korea for a year and had to leave my family back in the states Role-Playing is what kept me sane.  Same thing goes for when I went to Saudi Arabia.Anyway, enjoy your time at Annapolis.  Even the very worst of it will become a wonderful memory you'll look back on for the rest of your life. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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