The officer in charge of the program, Colonel Eugene Holmes, told me he was taking me because I would be of greater service to the country as an officer than as a draftee.

负责这个项目的军官尤金·霍尔姆斯上校对我说，他之所以录取我是因为，作为军官，我能够为国家做出的贡献要比当个新兵更多。