My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

