Tom: McGuffie: ROTC
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This is rather significant when we talk about this in my life. At the college I went to, you were required to take two years of Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC). When you’re in college, you can take military courses and when you graduate you’re commissioned to 2nd lieutenant. In my particular college, you had to take the first two years. You didn’t have a choice. It was kind of like Mickey Mouse training; once a week we'd put on a uniform, march and do stuff that, at that point in my life, I wasn’t really into. This was in 1961, before you guys were even thought of. My father had a lot more foresight than I did in his encouraging me to take advanced ROTC which meant I had more classes in military. If I passed all my classes, I would be a college graduate and I’d be commissioned to 2nd lieutenant.