[JohnG45]

My early college life was like that, but I went back to college three years ago and graduated summa cum laude last year. It’s amazing what a few tours in a war zone will do to straighten up a young flunkie.

To do what you have done, I doubt you were ever a "young flunkie." The proof is in the pudding.

Thank you for your service.

[batterycommander]

My high school record was stellar, valdictorian, 160 IQ, won an appointment to Naval Academy. But my dad was a crook and he was convicted of embezzlement. That threw a monkeywrench into our family’s life. I washed out of the academy and I entered enlisted service. Got my commission through OCS.