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"This is like a guy who flunks out of Harvard running around saying he went to Harvard,” Burkett said.
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You know what - I don't think this is anything like that at all.
Rather tried to be a marine and was medically unfit - this hits a chord with me because even though on the outside I look like your average everyday joe and when I was 18 I was in great shape (hiked up and down mount whitney in a day) *I* was deemed medically unfit in my physical because of my well documented heart murmur. It was devistating to me but at the time the military gave me no way around the fact that I was medically unfit. I've heard stories of people getting around it but I likely *NEVER* would have been able to qualify as a pilot because of it.
I tried and I had been looking forward to it most of my childhood having idolized my Dad who was in the AirForce.
Completely beyond my control. Failing out of Harvard is hardly completely out of someone control - if you study and apply yourself I'm sure at least managing a "C" at Harvard is possible.
I'm not defending his statements or his recent reports - I just think that statement is full of crapola.