I agree, but it raises the question that someone in the ROTC program he was in certainly should have known how West Point works.
That was HS ROTC.
Lighten up Francis.
Let’s go ask Hillary about snipers in Bosnia.
Of course he knew how admission to West Point works.
The problem was, he wanted to be a doctor, which meant he needed to be in med school after college, not on active duty in the US Army. That's why he declined the Army's offer to get him into West Point and instead applied to Yale.
There's nothing deceptive in his account.
Worthless RINOs like O'Reilly think it's necessary to reach across the aisle to be in the no-spin zone and therefore call Carson a liar over fine semantic distinctions.