Thought I’d better join before I got drafted.
"Lee Harvey, you are a madman. When you stole that cow, and your friend tried to make it with the cow. I want to party with you, cowboy."
Some of the best leaders and fellow soldiers I served with in the Army were not HS graduates (obtained GED in service),mandated jail or serve (crimes expunged),non citizens (obtained citizenship while in) and “Green to Gold” officers (enlisted to commission program).The worst were college fund soldiers,affirmative action NCOs and most officers especially a West Point officer. Of course I am biased against ticket punching officers and outside of combat arms.
I was sitting in the recruiting station in Nashville in 68’ when a Gunnery Sargent walks up to me and points to the Marine recruit next to me and said ‘you make sure he passes the test’.