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...will have their choice between Army & Navy, among different branches inside the services. Like World War II's selectees, they will take aptitude tests, be assigned-within the limit of quotas-to training and jobs for which they are best fitted. They will probably wear some sort of cadet uniform, not yet designed, to distinguish them from regular soldiers & sailors...
...Navy cadet wanted help: "The atomic bomb has made me do some fast, serious thinking. What shall I do when the war ends...
...cadet, Eichelberger, son of an Urbana (Ohio) lawyer, seemed to have an easy time at studies: maybe it was because he had already put in two years at Ohio State. The Howitzer labeled him "divinely tall and most divinely fair" and his wife, whom he calls Miss Em, still quotes it, remembering the second lieutenant who proposed to her 34 years ago in the Canal zone the first evening...
...Frustration. As a West Point cadet, Bob Eichelberger did not make the football team, won no letter. But he had wanted to. When he came back in 1940 as a major general and Superintendent of the Point, physical requirements for ad mission were so drawn that a tall candidate had to be underweight to get in. This anomaly was corrected. Eichelberger, who had come back with a fierce determination to make the Academy's football team the best ever, had his chance...
Boys' Championship in '43 and reaching the Junior semifinals in '44. Perhaps he was impressed by the absence of Air Cadet Bob Falkenburg, whose crashing play highlighted the two previous visits...