West Point Cadet Quits

[Tiberius]

I too have my doubts about this story, but not because of the allegiance thing. I read in one article that this guy may be footed the bill for his education, which was (at least in part) paid for by the government on the agreement that after graduating he would go into the military. It strikes me as very odd that someone would choose to get into massive amounts of debt in order to make a public statement like this.

Indeed, according to the same article, this student had been equally vocal during his time at West Point. He even says that he managed to get good feedback from some of the highly ranked members of staff:

In response to this utter nonsense, and much more, I initiated an Equal Opportunity investigation earlier this semester. I have received nothing but positive responses from the chain of command since then.

Seems to me like things were starting to go his way, albeit very slowly. His sudden decision to leave when he only had 5 months left just seems very odd, given that the punishments for it vastly outweigh the annoyances of staying. It's not like he was being physical abused because of his atheism; the worst things that seemed to happen was verbal abuse (like you don't get that in the military anyway).

So I'm highly skeptical that this is the only side of the story,