Veteran Of The Year Award - Surprise, Surprise!
An Unlikely Candidate
He was a star athlete in high school and later an accomplished Golden Gloves boxer.
He joined the U.S. Army at the prompting of a distinguished military man; his father, who was a Major General in the U.S. Army Air Corps (later U.S. Air Force).
He graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. degree in Creative Literature.
He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University (Merton).
After graduating from Officer Candidate School he attended and graduated from both Army Airborne and Ranger Training at the very top of each class.
He earned a selection for U. S. Army Special Forces Training but refused so that he could attend pilot training where he earned his wings and became an accomplished U.S. Army helicopter pilot (gun ship).
He achieved the rank of Captain.
He was appointed to teach at the United States Military Academy at West Point with the rank of Major but he resigned his commission from the U.S. Army to go into the entertainment industry; acting, writing and singing.
Who is he? I won’t give away who this is. Just watch. I know you will be surprised!
You can tell in this video that his time in the military means a lot to him.
VETERAN OF THE YEAR AWARD