When we returned to West Point this past July, we did not expect to end up restricted to the same five-mile radius for the rest of the semester. Yet the potent combination of COVID-19 and military force protection measures resulted in a full lock-down on post. The jealousy that we cadets regularly feel as we compare our constrained lives with those ‘easier’ lives of regular college students has gained a fresh intensity with these new regulations.
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