College degree and a commercial pilot’s license - no way he wasn’t going to be commissioned, even without Hollywood pull.
That being said, he earned all he got.
I always thought that he wasn’t acting, but was being naturally stiff and formal in the movie scene he shot with Curtis LeMay. It’s different than how he played the role with other actors playing senior officers. That really was his boss he was in front of.
Yeah but he started as enlisted, not commissioned.