AcademyMen: Sarge

If you like stocky, muscular, uniformed men then Chuck Mitchell (‘Sarge’) is your man. Cocky, arrogant and built like a fireplug, Sarge flat out dominated every Academy video in which he appeared.

Bursting out of his body-hugging uniform and giving over-the-top performances, he was wildly popular among a certain subset of gay men. Even today clips of his performances top most AcademyMen web searches. His images and his clips are everywhere.

To be completely honest, few men who performed in front of the cameras at Chip’s Academy were there because of their acting chops. Most gave wooden performances and spouted awkward dialogue. No, we remember their performances for their looks and their attitude.

To a man they were young, fit, uniformed alpha males captured in their physical prime. They were hyper masculine and occupy a hyper masculine world devoid of femininity, softness and sex. Their scenes were about authority, control, domination, gear, uniforms and power.

No hint of homosexuality (or homophobia for that matter) colored their performances – and rarely, if ever, did sex rear its head. When sex was implied (and it was never more than implied or simulated – these are not sex tapes), it was used as a means of asserting authority and domination.

There was nothing gay about these men, or their performances. They might sometimes verge on camp – but never gay. And that’s a big part of their appeal: these are masculine men in manly roles in a male world.

Sarge was the campiest cop ever to appear in the AcademyMen roster. Almost without exception his performances were energetic, over-the-top exaggerations of macho male behavior. You have to wonder if he trained for a role in TV wrestling with his comic rages, extreme posturing and pulled punches. His performances are fun to watch precisely because they are so extreme.

Sarge is a caricature, a cartoon cop (albeit a built and buff and blustery cartoon cop), and no real threat at all.

Sarge only appeared in a few AcademyMen videos (and one BeForced video), but his performances were remarkable and a lot of fun to watch.

Year	Video
2000	Top Cops I To Serve and Protect
2001	Top Cops II / Rage
2004	The Finishers

AcademyMen: Hogtied cop

AcademyMen: Rigger

A former Army Airborne Ranger, Rigger brought military authenticity to his AcademyMen performances.

AcademyMen videos capture Rigger in police gear, in military gear – and in almost nothing at all.

 

Rigger’s looks like an innocent ‘boy-next door’ in his earliest videos – a look at odds with his performances.

 

In his later videos, Rigger really looks like a man who knows what he wants and how to get it.

So who’s to say which look is hotter: the innocent nasty boy, or the confident leading man?

Year	Video
2000	To Serve and Protect Top Cops I
2001	Top Cops II
2004	The Finishers

Please visit StationHouse videos for more information about Rigger and AcademyMen videos.

AcademyMen: Gunner takes one for the team

Gunner takes one for the team in Beyond the Law (1996).

 

AcademyMen: Alan

One of many muscular men who passed through the Academy Training Center in its heyday, Alan is anonymous behind a strategically-positioned army cap.

Was he a client who paid for the Academy experience? The Academy advertised in the late great Drummer magazine and elsewhere for men who wanted (or needed) to experience intense realistic full-contact. The Academy was, after all, a commercial enterprise, and you can’t run a business without cash. Scores of men laid it down for real, no-holds barred arrest, interrogation, prison, bondage and other experiences with straight beefy men who wear the gear in real life and know how to use it. Damn …

Or was Alan one of the cadre of uniformed men paid to administer the Academy experience? The Academy retained the services of police, soldiers, marines and other men who legitimately wore uniforms in their work. Almost all the principles you see in Academy videos and images (and a number of the men under their control) are real cops, real soldiers, and real marines.  But not just the principles: sometimes you’ll see the same men taking the lead in one video, and being controlled in another. Gunner is a good example: he’s often The Man in Academy videos – but not always: he’s bound and restrained in others. Is this the case with Alan? Was he a real uniformed man taking one for the team?

Evidence suggests he is:

• His face is always hidden, either behind a cap or actually cropped out of the images
• He displays a USMC tattoo on his right arm
• And is that gold band on his finger a wedding ring?

These clues suggest Alan either is or was a marine, and – maybe – straight. Most Academy men were: sex was generally outside the parameters of the Academy experience.

Maybe it’s an accident that Alan’s face is hidden, but more likely it’s not. You can understand why a real marine might want to keep his time at the Academy a secret.

Accidental or not, the hidden face adds interest to the these images. You focus on the situation. The rope. The gear. The skin…

 

 

AcademyMen wants YOU!

Years ago, AcademyMen actively recruited men for their vidoes and photosets. They wanted:

• Guys who like to get tied up and get manhandled by a HOT man in uniform
• Guys who look HOT in uniform and know how to handle prisoners

Both Academy Training Centers (in Washington, Missouri and Alphretta, Georgia) closed a long time ago, and even later attempts to resurrect the franchise after Chip no longer ran it are gone too.

But fans can use archive org to travel back to 2008 when the AcademyMen.com site was still actively recruiting candidates. (The text is actually much older than 2008, but that’s when archive.org captured it.)

Damn!

AcademyMen: Gunner

Booted and uniformed Gunner appeared in about a dozen videos filmed in and around the Academy Training Center’s Georgia facility in the 1990s.

The man isn’t Hollywood beautiful or buff, but he is in his physical prime in these videos. Well built—not gym built—if you know what I mean. He looks like a man you might meet for real.

What Gunner’s got in spades is attitude.  Cocky, no-f*cks-given, attitude. He’s hot, and he KNOWS it.

Gunner doesn’t just look like a cocky bastard: he ACTS like one too.

His iconic performance as the cop in 9/10ths of the Law (1996) boot worship scene launched (and continues to launch) a thousand wet dreams.

You look at his tailored, body-hugging uniform, dark sunglasses and motorcycle helmet and feel your body respond. You just can’t take your eyes off of him. You want MORE.

But this man doesn’t give a f*ck about you, what you want, or what you think about him.

F*kkin stud!

Year	Video
1995	Kick-Ass Cops 1 Men in Training
1996	9/10ths of the Law Beyond the Law
1997	Final Justice High n Tight Kick-Ass Cops 2
1998	Cold Steel The Collector
1999	The ManHunters SWAT in Training

Please visit StationHouse videos for more information about Gunner and AcademyMen videos.

AcademyMen: Beefcake with a badge

This blond beefcake appeared in AcademyMen promotional materials throughout the ’90s, and probably appeared in one or more AcademyMen productions.

Please leave a comment if you recognize this booted bullcop or know what AcademyMen film(s) he appeared in. I’d like to see more of him. A LOT more…

Arresting Behaviour

Cell hog