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Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

— Dennis L. McKiernan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

— Sandy Adams

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

— Bobby Thomson

I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.

— Katie Jacobs Stanton

When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.

— James R. Clapper

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

— Alan G. Poindexter

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

— Michael Hayden

I always wanted to go into the military or something like that - my whole family, all my friends are either Air Force, Navy, or Marines.

— RJ Mitte

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

— Tom Cotton

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

— Emily Robison

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.

— Leon Askin