Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford is famously known as the president who took over from Richard Nixon and became the 38th President of the United States. He also served in the US Navy Reserve as a Navy pre-flight instructor and he taught elementary navigation skills, first aid, gunnery, and military drill. He asked for more action and was assigned in 1943 to the USS Monterey, where he served as assistant navigator. He almost died in a typhoon storm in 1944 when the ship tilted 25° and he almost slipped overboard. He was active in the Navy reserve until 1963 before deciding to move into politics.
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was up the President of the United States, had a very distinguished Navy career before moving into politics. He served as a Luton junior grade on a submarine and served several duties as an executive officer. He was in a prime position to join the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine program, but his career was cut short when his father passed away, and he retired from the military at the rank of Lieutenant in 1961. He would then spend the next couple years working on his parents’ peanut farm, before he would decide to get into politics.
Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy was the famous Record executive who created the label Motown. At the age of 16, he gave up his fledgling boxing career to join the US Army fighting in the Korean War. He used his discharge pay to open a record shop that heavily featured jazz albums. When this business was not successful he soon discovered that the easiest way to make money was to produce his own records and thus Motown was born. But this whole journey could not have started without his experience in the military and the financial foundation that it gave him upon his return to the United States.