I hadn’t yet had a sexual experience with another man. An officer asked me if I “liked girls.” I answered “Yes” -and I wasn’t lying. I remember clearly the psychological test of my suitability as a heterosexual man. It was an early lesson that timing is a very important element in life. ![]() At the time, the requirement was two years of college, which I had, so I entered instructor school just under the wire before the bar was raised to college graduate. ![]() The next best option was to become an academic instructor. The military doctors discovered that I had 20/40 vision in my left eye, which immediately disqualified me from pilot training. I wanted to be a pilot, something that seemed glamorous to my nineteen-year-old eyes-which, unfortunately, I failed to have examined before signing on Uncles Sam’s dotted line. ![]() Air Force a year after North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950.
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