Many years ago, when I had gotten good results on the SAT and was in high school ROTC, I was invited to Treasure Island (together with some of my other ROTC colleagues) shown around an Aircraft carrier (could have been a destroyer, a very large ship) and invited to sign up for the Navy. I was told that with my SAT score I would get a full scholarship (have to pay nothing) and be given unbounded opportunities to succeed.
I declined and went to Berkley instead, but I always considered that an offer for a scholarship, although in retrospect it clearly wasn't. It was just a come on.
This is such a common recruiting tactic that I am very angry that all the press managed not to notice when Ben Carson made essentially the same story. I did not meet Westmoreland, I did meet the Captain of the ship, could he have been President Carter? In any case, the attack on him as lying is ridiculous and angering since it is based on attorney like definition of what an "offer" is.
Leon
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