Tom,
After I graduated highs chool I had no intention of going to college. I talked my best friend into going into the service on the 'Buddy' plan. I was the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. He was the boy from the good, church going family. I took a test, made 95%, and qualified for rocketry at some "cape" somewhere. We both went to down town Denver to the inlistment center to get our physicals and ship out. He passed and I failed. Hammer toes. Got classified 4F, IIRC. I was devistated at the time. Ended up going to the Barnes School of business to study data processing on IBM 402 tabs and the rest. Later on, as my college degrees increase my qualifications for cannon fodder increased also. I was 4A after graduate school

Our paths might have crossed if I had made it to the cape. My buddy ended up going to Korea, and the experience messed up his life. The last I heard he was a used car salesman in Denver.
JLK