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[i]Face to face with what was looking increasingly like his non-future, Lovell was rescued by the very organization that had rejected him: the Navy. Only weeks before high school graduation season, the Navy recruiter made the rounds of the Milwaukee schools, talking up a program called the Holloway Plan. Hungry for fresh aviators after World War II, the service was launching a program in which high school graduates would be given two free years of an undergraduate engineering education, followed by flight training and six months of active sea duty with the humble rank of midshipmen. They would then be commissioned as ensigns in the regular Navy, but before beginning their service, they would be allowed to to finish their two remaining years of college and earn their degrees. Promptly after graduation, they would commence their military career as naval aviators. The plan sounded great to Lovell and he leapt at the chance to sign up. A few months later he enrolled as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, his tuition bills now being paid by the Department of the Navy. From March 1946 through March 1948, Lovell studied engineering at Wisconsin...[/i]
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