Curt Campbell helped keep AWACs aloft in a career spanning the Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam
Curt Campbell was 17 years old when he joined the military.
The Nuremberg trials were going on and he wanted to be a guard at those trials in 1948.
The problem was the military wanted the guards to be 6 feet tall. Campbell was only 5 foot 7 inches.
A couple of things were pushing him toward the military, Campbell said. His buddy's number was coming up to enter the draft. At 16, a judge told Campbell he had a terrible temper and asked him if he thought about using it somewhere useful - like the army. Campbell told the judge he was considering that.
Since he was too short to do what he wanted...
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