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

— Katie Jacobs Stanton

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— James R. Clapper

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.

— Mike Vogel

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

— Bobby Thomson

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

— Sandy Adams

I always wanted to be a pilot.

— Bo Jackson

The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they let me stay on at school to get a Master's - I went to Denver for the Armed Forces Air Intelligence School, six months. Fundamentally, we had a major effort on in Southeast Asia, and this was training folks to support that effort.

— Michael Hayden

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

— Dennis L. McKiernan

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

— Kent McCord

✗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

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