08-10-2023, 02:21 PM
(08-10-2023, 02:13 PM)Dill Wrote: So your father was Air Force?
Your memory sounds about right to me. ROTC were cautious on a lot of campuses. Understandably so.
yes...He actually started off in the Army as an enlisted man. He wanted to go to West Point but he failed the physical (feet issues + marching do not mix). He passed the physical for the Naval Academy so he went there. Then after 4 years at the academy, he decided he really didn't like being on ships for long tours, so when he graduated he transferred over to the Air Force which was still allowed in the 1950s.
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