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On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:20:38 -0800, Ron Wanttaja
<ron.wanttaja@comcast.net> wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:18:56 -0500, "anon" <anon@anon.com> wrote:
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>>"Ron Wanttaja" <ron.wanttaja@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:jeqrs2l8lrp0tr9mu98fnn4vtae66vt767@4ax.com...
>>> On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:49:32 -0500, "anon" <anon@anon.com> wrote:
>>> The difference is in "nomination" vs. "appointment." Being nominated
>>> means your
>>> name was formally submitted to the admissions board, but only a bit more
>>> than
>>> one in ten are actually offered admission ("appointment").
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>>You're right. I confused nominated with appointed. Every friend of my
>>that was nominated, ended up at an academy, so I didn't notice the
>>distinction.
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>No problem...I sometimes have trouble keeping this stuff straight, too.
>
>I guess the most interesting aspect of this was Campbell's planning. He was
>applying to go to one of the most prestigious schools in the US.
>
>Many of us in this newsgroup attended college. Many set their sights high, when
>they started to apply; if not deciding on the military route, they tried for
>admissions to places like MIT, CALTECH, etc. as well as the less-prestigeous
>(and less exclusive) schools. Some got their main target, more had to fall back
>on one of their secondary choices.
>
>Zoom was trying to get into one of the most grueling, selective academic
>environments there is. What was *his* fallback plan?
>
>He enlisted in the Air Force.
I once talked about Zoom with a well known aviation writer, who by
coincidence was Zoom's high school ROTC advisor.
He told me the story of their troupe taking a trip to an AF base a
couple of hundred miles away, when Zoom was 16. During the tour young
Mr. Campbell got to chatting with an officer that was tagging along.
He told the officer that he hadn't come down with the group, he'd
flown down in his 182.
The officer was in charge of base ops, and would have known if a
civilian plane had landed that day. Later he took the advisor aside
and told him that young Mr. Campbell had a problem with the truth.
I wonder if that might have impacted Mr. Campbell's application to a
military academy?
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