He earned a scholarship to a state college but dropped out in a few months and joined the army in 1988.
How many people who get a full scholarship to college drop out after only a few months?

McVeigh took to army life and was a model soldier at Fort Riley, Kansas. During the Gulf War, he earned a Bronze Star in Kuwait and returned home to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he attempted to qualify for the elite Special Forces. However, after a few weeks, he resigned from the army and drifted to Decker, Michigan, where he resumed a friendship with Terry Nichols, whom McVeigh had met in service.
How many other people were "model soldiers" and earned a Bronze Star, which is nothing to sneeze at, then try out for the Green Berets but not only drop that but also "resign" from the US Army?

Know what that makes ME think?  That they gave him an Honorable mainly because he had that Bronze Star.  I also wonder why he apparently didn't qualify for the Green Berets.


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SGT. JIRI TREBISSKY H&D SAS

"When the winds of change blow, some people
build walls and others build windmills."
~ Chinese proverb