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By snapshot =oozer on Jan 23, 2010

James, the following was compiled from many sources.
I went to UMass with Bill Cosby, so I was interested enough in his military years to collect this material. Hope this answer helps you.
Despite his high IQ, Bill Cosby failed tenth grade because of his love of sports. Instead of repeating the year, he left school and got a job at a shoe repair shop and later fixed car mufflers. His father had been a mess steward in the Navy, so Cosby left the apprentice job in 1956 and enlisted for four years in the U.S. Navy.
After basic and advanced training, he was assigned as a hospital corpsman at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, where he played football for the Quantico Marine team until he was sent to Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland. Finally he was assigned to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland where he played on the hospital basketball team and worked as a Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class.
At the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia, his high IQ scores had earned him training as a physical therapist, followed by assignment to the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland. There he worked as a corpsman, helping to rehabilitate mostly Korean War veterans, a duty that he liked and at which he excelled. He was also sent briefly on board ship, from Newfoundland to Guantanamo Bay. Finally he was assigned to the Philadelphia Naval Hospital.
With the track team, he traveled around the country and improved his skills, getting his time in the hundred-yard dash down to 10.2 seconds; clearing six feet, five inches in the high jump; and reaching forty-six feet, eight inches in the hop-step jump. He also had a more-than-passing interest in three other sports (football, basketball, and baseball), playing with the Quantico Marine football team in 1956 and playing guard and forward on the National Naval Medical Center varsity basketball team.
During his Navy years, the young sailor from the poor projects in North Philadelphia, experienced for the first time the insult of being refused service in a restaurant along with the rest of the sailors. His travels with the U.S. Navy track team took him into the Deep South, where he was forced to enter restaurants through the back door and eat in the kitchen. This outrageous practice persisted in the South at least through the 1960s, and even though the kitchen offered better service, better food, and more of it, for a man born and raised in the North, it was particularly appalling.
While serving in the Navy, Cosby took correspondence courses and passed a high school equivalency exam. After his discharge in 1961, he began attending Temple University on the G.I.Bill.

By Proinsia on Jan 23, 2010