Jack Keane on Military Service: ‘If I Can Do This, I Can Help Protect the American People’

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KEANE: “My dad was a World War II marine I grew up in New York City, sitting housing projects and I at 16 years of Catholic education culminating at jesuit school rotc that war was on in vietnam we all knew we were going one way or the other so we decided, my friends and I, no one had ever spent their career and military much less an officer we jumped into the rotc program. They quit after about six months of it I seem to have an aptitude for it. I kind of enjoyed attic, excelled a little bit and felt possibly I could make a career of doing this. My first unit was 82nd airborne division Iran into some of the finest people have ever met in my life noncommissioned officers. They were infantry paratroopers like me. They help to change my life and help push my commitment of the 101st airborne. I was among heroes. I knew I could handle combat and deal with the reality of what we are facing.”