Dale Hanson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Actually, I had a perfect deferment.
Students got 2S.
Ministerial students got 4S.
They couldn't touch you.
No, I'm going to go in this thing.
So I drove down to Minneapolis and took all the tests and enlisted.
And I wanted to see it in writing.
I have the right to try for Special Forces.
They can't give it to you, but I can sure try for it.
And I did well.
I was an undergraduate out of basic and got promoted.
And then I was an undergraduate out of AIT and got promoted.
And then AIT is interesting too, Camp Crockett.
And I don't know if you've ever heard of that, but it was a secret military installation in the United States to train people to fight.
And it was outside of Fort Gordon, 10 miles in the woods.
And it was paid for by excess funds is what the euphemism was.
And there were 600 of us there.
And it was all people who were going to go commando, airborne, things like that.
And we took the special forces test there.
And there were 600 of us.