I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.
I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.
My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.
When I first went to school, I was fighting all the time. The soldier mentality was still in me. I kept getting expelled. I found it hard to take instructions from anyone who wasn't a military commander.
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life.