16. James Doohan
James Doohan was an actor in film and in television. He died in 2005, but he was most popular for starring in Star Trek in the cinematic sphere, playing the role of Scotty the engineer. When he was 19 years old, he decided to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces and he witness combat during the second World War. He was also there to fight during D-Day at Normandy. Doohan was hit with several shots while leading some of his fellow soldiers. He lost a finger and would have lost his life if he didn’t have a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket. Who knew those cancer sticks would actually end up saving someone’s life?
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15. Ice T
Yep, Ice T was a pretty tough dude even in real life. And with the real name that he’s sporting, perhaps that is a very good thing indeed! Born Tracy Lauren Marrow, Ice T is now famous as a musician and actor appearing in movies and the long-running tv drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Yet before all of that, Ice T enlisted in the Army straight out of high school. He was a soldier for four years and left in 1983 to do his music stuff. We all know what happened after that. A nice tidbit of unknown history about the musician!
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