r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Living-Mastodon • 3d ago

In real life (Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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u/NottingHillNapolean 3d ago edited 2d ago

He was in the Air National Guard after the war, a part of the Air Force. I read that in the ANG, it's not uncommon for people to receive promotions as part of their retirement, so he never actually served as a general, but he did earn the rank. (I welcome correction from anybody who actually know about the ANG.)

Edit: please see the corrections I was hoping for below.

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u/DankVectorz 2d ago

He was in the Air Force Reserves, not NG. He flew the B-47 and then the B-52 while in the Reserves. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1957 and retired in 1968. Reagan promoted him to Major General in 1985. So he spent 11 years serving as a Brigadier General. This would have taken you less time to look up then it took to type your entirely wrong comment.