Also Quote by Richard Elman

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

— Rick James

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I learned so…

— Colin Powell

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

— Kurt Elling

I did not decide to become an officer to start a military career. I still wanted to be an agronomist and work in some…

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

After I graduated from Tuskegee with a masters in nuclear engineering, the draft was on so I signed up for ROTC. I figured if…

— Lonnie Johnson

I went into the military because I wanted to get an education, not because I wanted to fight anybody.

— Charlie Murphy

My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two…

— Roman Romanenko

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child…

— Hugo Chavez

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately…

— Don Young

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different…

— Mose Allison

I was drafted during the Korean War.

— Clint Eastwood