He graduated from Fork Union Military Academy, and was sent to the European Theatre in World War II at the age of 18 serving in an ordnance unit of the 82nd Airborne Division.
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After high school, West attended Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, Virginia for a year, but left because of the distance between him and his family.