 After a freshman year of high school in Orange, he was enrolled by his father in Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, where he completed the Senior Infantry Reserve Officers Training Corps course.Winning honors in marksmanship each year he was there, he served in the Culver Rifles Color Guard his last two years.After completing Advanced Camp for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, he was given a certificate in lieu of a commission in the Infantry Officer Reserves Corps for which he could apply upon his twenty-first birthday.