Early Years
The Bahnsen family moved to Rochelle, Georgia, in 1941 where Doc's father worked as the soil conservationist for Wilcox County, a rural southcentral Georgia agricultural area known for its production of timber, cotton, soybeans, tobacco, pecans, peanuts, watermelon, cantaloupe, pork, beef,and broilers. Bahnsen attended Rochelle's public schools until tenth grade. He then went to live with his grandfather and aunt Bee in Americus, Georgia, because Americus high school's curriculum offered more math and science courses than Rochelle's. After 18 months in Americus, Bahnsen gained admission to Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. On graduation from that excellent prep school, Bahnsen took and passed the admissions test for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. He was given a principal appointment to West Point by U.S. Senator Walter F. George, a close political acquaintance of his grandfather Bahnsen.
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