It all kind of fell into place after that. Before I left Whitehall Street--the location in lower Manhattan where all the NYC draftees reported for their initial physical exam and appitude testing--I was told that I had done very well on the initial battery of exams. From there we were bussed to the old Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn for a flight in a C-47 down to the Reception Station at Ft Jackson, SC. During the week of indoctrination at Jackson (prior to going to Basic Training at Ft Gordon) I was asked if I wanted to take the test for OCS. I said yes, passed it, and the rest is history. I was commissioned in less than 11 months from the day I was drafted following Basic, AIT (12B) and Engineer OCS at Ft Belvoir.
You're a testament to what was possible in the good old Army. Thank you for that rundown.
I like to tell people that General Shalikashvili and Elvis were drafted in 58, and neither did too badly.