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I’M GETTING GRADES OUT AND REALLY DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS, BUT…......

I HAVE to share this with you. Charles Rangel recently made comments about how if our military guys had any other options they wouldn’t have “settled for” an Army (or Navy, etc.) career. Oh yeah?

Ari Steinmetz wanted to join up but didn’t make the cut:

I was also struck by the Doonesbury arc in which a student declares he can best serve his country at a hedge fund. My story is something of the opposite.

I tried to gain admission to the Air Force Academy but, while I received a congressional nomination, my school record wasn’t strong enough. I tried to enlist after college to enter flight school, but my recruiter said competition for such slots was too stiff and my test scores weren’t high enough. My fallback was the M.B.A. program at Columbia. After one semester there, my recruiter called me up to say a slot had opened for me. I jumped at the chance and dropped out of school. After three months of officer training I shipped out to flight school at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla. While I had a great time, once again I didn’t make the cut and flunked out after nine months. I went back and finished my M.B.A. Now I am a mutual fund manager.

So, you see, I had to settle for an Ivy League M.B.A. and a Wall Street career because I wasn’t good enough for the military.

MORE responses to one of our Congressdummies are to be found HERE

HAT TIP: Brother Victor

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