I once knew a guy who was enlisted in the Air Force (US) and assigned to a ROTC unit at some school near Harvard. He some how got into Harvard Business school a

I once knew a guy who was enlisted in the Air Force (US) and assigned to a ROTC unit at some school near Harvard. He some how got into Harvard Business school and got the Air Force to pay for it. When I knew him, he was in my reserve unit, and had finagled a COO role at a prominent local business with the mandate to turn it around. Apparently this was based solely on his MBA from Harvard. Which he did. He finished out his reserve contract and last I heard had moved on to CEO some other company. TL DR: Air Force enlisted to CEO. Edit; Now that I think about it, I also worked for another company who's CEO had started of enlisted in the military (army national guard iirc). So two enlisted to CEO stories.