Why have halfway measures... Eliminate the service academies en toto, and rely on ROTC and Enlisted -> Officer mechanisms to fill the gaps. If the goal is engineers rather than line officers, send them to engineering schools, etc.

Full title: "Proposed civilian faculty cuts at Air Force Academy raise alarms over critical engineering programs"

• If civilian faculty are cut, this would represent about a 38% cut in the number of faculty at the Air Force academy