Originally Posted by
TransWorld
He also started as a E-1 Private. By the end of his career, he was an O-7 Brigadier General.
Meh. That was then, this is now. They wouldn't even give him wings today, unless he was fly helos in the army. Still need a 2-year to compete for that.
Yeager was also reasonably one of the best test pilots of the golden age. In his peer group he should have been an astronaut and walked on the moon... but he didn't have a degree. So you could make a case that college would have gotten him further in life.