"I got picked up in, I left for OCS in 1998. And I'd applied in 1997 and didn't get it," he says. "So I had to try it again." He was right at the line but could still qualify if he put in a package. So that year, they took 300 packages,. And they accepted 150. so I had a 50% chance of being an officer. It's like, okay, this is where I'm going.