But there are always exceptions and exceptional people. But my father could go inside to clean the library but could not use it. After high school, another client of his father's gave White a job in his welding shop. But White wanted to fly airplanes. So he went down to the Air Force recruiting office and tried to sign up.
Some people call it the dark ages.
I call it the white ages because they wouldn't let anyone with my color take the test. Once again, his father knew someone who knew someone else who knew a third person, an Air Force recruiter in Tallahassee. So White traveled south, took the test, passed it the first time and when the Air Force asked him for his three top choices of jobs he answered, aircraft mechanic, aircraft mechanic, aircraft mechanic. He spent four years in the Air Force, one in Vietnam, one in Thailand working on the F-4. He moved to Savannah in 1968 to take a job with Grumman Aviation, which became Gulfstream Aerospace and in 1972 joined the National Guard.