Rejection Rates for Military Service

[painter777]

5% survival rate and I beat the odds

Needless to say but you beat the odds. I believe in Divine Intervention, your an example. I admire your work with the support group it shows your character.

I was a 9 time state champion in track in field in High School... High jump, High hurdles and Low hurdles my freshman, sophomore and junior years. My senior year I graduated in early January and missed the High school season to run the indoor season / exhibition with the University of Michigan. I had a offer and accepted to train for the US Olympic team. Upon making the team we trained for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Our 1st big outing was the 1979 Pan American Games that were being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July. The Final Olympic team trials were to be held in Oregon, early summer of 1980. If you made it next stop..... Moscow. But before President Carter could crush me I'd had my 1st real in depth physical after the Pan Am games where I found out I had what they called PVCs of the heart, those extra beats that disrupt the regular heart rhythm, sometimes causing a sensation of a fluttering or a skipped beat in the chest. I never really noticed it just felt like having nerves or butterflies before a match.
All of this competing was costly to a working family. I'd talked with a Army recruiter quite a few times and really wanted to see if I had what it took to be a Ranger. PVC shot that down before the sound left my lips. Now that was Crushing !