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ARMY
NAVY
AIR FORCE
MARINES
MISC
100
Entered the Army in 1958 and stationed in Fort Hood, Texas before being deployed to the 1st Medium Tank Battalion, 32d Armor in Friedberg, Germany, where he met his future wife, Priscilla Beaulieu.
Elvis Presley
100
Before he became a movie icon, he served in the US Navy.
Humphrey Bogart
100
Name the television star and martial arts professional who joined the United States Air Force in 1958, and served as an Air Policeman in South Korea.
Chuck Norris
100
Enlisted in the U.S. Marines, saw action as Private First Class in the Pacific during World War II, and was wounded (in the buttocks) by fire which severed his sciatic nerve. His injury occurred during the battle for Saipan in June 1944, not the battle for Iwo Jima, which took place several months later, in February 1945. He received a Purple Heart and was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
Lee Marvin
100
This talk show host enlisted in the U.S. Marines upon graduating high school in 1974. He retired as a lieutenant commander in the US Navy Reserve after 22 years of service.
Montel Williams
200
He was enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944 during WWII, where he served in France and Germany. According to Military.com, it was while he was in the army that hegot his first opportunity to sing — with a military band.
Tony Bennett
200
Enrolled in a Navy program, hoping to become a pilot, but was ineligible due to color-blindness. He instead became a radioman and gunner, stationed to torpedo bombers in Hawaii in 1944. He was on the USS Bunker Hill during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific theater.
Paul Newman
200
In 1954, at age 17, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician and was stationed at Shreveport, Louisiana. Over the next three years, he earned his high school equivalency and moonlighted as a disc jockey at a local radio station. He also received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site. After a general discharge in 1957, he took radio jobs in Boston and Fort Worth, Texas. Later he did stand up comedy on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar.
George Carlin
200
What is Like Gene Hackman, he left home at age 16 to join the Marines, ending up in Lebanon with Operation Blue Bat in 1958. In this 2003 interview, he said, "For me the Marine Corps was a spiritual journey. It's not about war. Our duty is to protect those who do not have the means to protect themselves." Military roles: 'The Duellists' (1977), ' U-571' (2000), 'Fail Safe' (2000
Harvey Keitel
200
In 1942, he enlisted in the army in honor of his late wife, Carole Lombard. She had been killed in a plane crash while on tour selling war bonds.
Clark Gable
300
This Good, the Bad and the Ugly actor served in the US Army during the Korean War and almost died when he was involved in a plane crash. The plane landed in the ocean near Fort Ord, CA, and he was able to swim to safety.
Clint Eastwood
300
Enlisted at the peak of his career in 1942, declaring, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." Served for three years on the destroyer USS Satterlee and was later commissioned as a Lt. Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence and was awarded a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star.
Henry Fonda
300
Prior to starring in movies such as "The Bucket List", he got the chance to train as a fighter pilot, but as soon as he sat in the cockpit of what he thought would be his dream job, he felt like he was "sitting in the nose of a bomb," as he told AARP magazine. He didn’t hesitate to act on his gut instinct, and left the Air Force in 1959.
Morgan Freeman
300
Served in the USMC from 1945 until 1949, and was assigned to the 8th and I Barracks in Washington, D.C, where he served as a guard at Arlington National Cemetery (a duty that drove him to drink, he said years later). He also taught English literature at the Marine Corps Institute.
George C. Scott
300
The Splendid Splinter of American baseball player of the Boston Red Sox served in Korea.
Ted Williams
400
Which future member of "The A-Team" became a military policeman and later promoted to squad leader in the Army after being expelled from college.
Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud)
400
This future television host and comedian joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, starting as an apprentice shipman and eventually a midshipman assigned to the USS Pennsylvania in the Pacific Ocean.
Johnny Carson
400
In the Air Force during the Korean war, where he found his first guitar during his tour of duty in Germany. When his term was over he sold appliances door to door while he tried to make it big in the music biz.
Johnny Cash
400
This Golden Girl was a truck driver and typist in the Marines.
Bea Arthur
400
Who was quoted by Rolling Stone magazine in 1972 as saying “Yeah, 17. I joined the Army, smuggled my guitar in.”
Jerry Garcia
500
Army Ranger turned crime fighter on NBC’s Law & Order spinoff, Special Victims Unit,
Ice T
500
Before his duties as Petty Officer Third Class Aviation Store Keeper in Mountain View, Calififornia, it's doubtful this ‘80s star was singing “Can’t Touch This,” during basic training.
MC Hammer
500
Country singer who went into the Air Force after graduating high school in 1950, but only served about nine months before his was medically discharged because of back problems.
Willie Nelson
500
Joining the Marines in 1947,he was promoted to Private First Class and served with an armored unit, but he was demoted back to private seven times. His rebellious nature came to a head when he let a weekend pass turn into a two week tryst with his girlfriend. Shore patrol apprehended him, but he resisted and spent 41 days in the brig. Later his unit was performing a training exercise in the Arctic which turned disastrous. The ship he , his unit, and their tanks had boarded hit a sandbank, which threw several tanks and their crews into the water. Many drowned immediately, unable to get out of their tanks, but he jumped in and saved the lives of five men.
Steve McQueen
500
retired as a brigadier general in 1959
James Maitland Stewart 1908-1997 (Jimmy Stewart)