Sentence:  He had gone into the Japanese navy , had been <WSD>trained</WSD> as an officer , had participated in one or two battles - he never went into detail regarding his military experience - and at the age of twenty-five , quite as a bolt out of the blue , he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  educate for a future role or function