Coolidge, I don't think the folks at  New York Military Academy would appreciate your deriding  them as just a boarding school for wayward boys. (Though they seem to be a mess these days.)
In any case I'm sorry you seem to consider 18-22 year olds conscienceless kids, as I recall many, both among those who served and those who opposed the war, as having been wonderfully decent, thoughtful young men who followed their conscience.  The only fellows I didn't respect were those-- and I knew many on campus-- who professed to patriotically support the war yet were delighted to see their "inferiors" go fight the war.  As a vet myself I did detest them.   We both know who they were, I don't need to name them. 
I thank you for your service.