Gerald Ford
On January20,1974, Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the United States, succeeding the scandal-plagued Richard Nixon as president. In 1963, Ford decided to leave the naval reserve and pursue a career in politics, rising to the highest office possible in the United States of America.
Ford’s military duty was more of a side hobby for him. During his time in the Navy, he served as a pre-flight instructor, where he taught new recruits the fundamentals of navigation. In addition to teaching survival skills and first aid, he also taught firearms training and military cadence. Serving on the USS Monterey in the middle of a storm brought him perilously near to drowning, and he wished he could have seen more combat.